KneeAware
post-grad
That is great Lori, you are getting back at it and will reap the benefits of it for sure! Good to see a post from you here again too...
!
!
PKR My new (partial) knee
- Thread starter Lori-M
- Start date
- Status
1ELISEA
big-cheese
- Joined
- Apr 16, 2012
- Messages
- 3,408
- Age
- 73
- Gender
- Female
- Country
United States
OP
OP
Lori-M
senior
Good intentions and all that dang it. The Thursday following my earlier post I got food poisoning 
and was home sick all day; then Friday woke with a horrendous migraine 
around 3 am and decided to take another day. The weekend began with a call from our daughter who needed us to keep the 9 month old for awhile. She was headed to the hospice to be with her husband whose father was about to pass. We ended up keeping the little darling overnight, which amounted to almost no sleep for either of us. There's a reason God usually gives babies to YOUNG folks! 
Sunday night I could feel it beginning in my throat. By Monday evening after work I was sick with a summer cold.
Tuesday was worse and Wednesday I gave up and stayed home again. At this rate I will have used all my PTO up before I get to try out the RV!
Needless to say I haven't felt like doing much of anything after work except sleeping.
Plus they don't want people using the pool at the Y if they're sick so I may be waiting another few days before I can get back there. Hopefully the manufactured home park where I live will get the new heater for our pool installed soon so we can use ours! I'd use it without the heater except Seattle weather hasn't exactly been what I'd call warm and it would be similar to taking a dip in the Puget Sound. Brr!
and was home sick all day; then Friday woke with a horrendous migraine around 3 am and decided to take another day. The weekend began with a call from our daughter who needed us to keep the 9 month old for awhile. She was headed to the hospice to be with her husband whose father was about to pass. We ended up keeping the little darling overnight, which amounted to almost no sleep for either of us. There's a reason God usually gives babies to YOUNG folks! Sunday night I could feel it beginning in my throat. By Monday evening after work I was sick with a summer cold.
Tuesday was worse and Wednesday I gave up and stayed home again. At this rate I will have used all my PTO up before I get to try out the RV!Needless to say I haven't felt like doing much of anything after work except sleeping.
Plus they don't want people using the pool at the Y if they're sick so I may be waiting another few days before I can get back there. Hopefully the manufactured home park where I live will get the new heater for our pool installed soon so we can use ours! I'd use it without the heater except Seattle weather hasn't exactly been what I'd call warm and it would be similar to taking a dip in the Puget Sound. Brr!
Nanners
post-grad
Hey Lori, sorry to hear about the food poisoning. That stuff sucks! Basically thats what I feel like when my Crohns is flaring, but sadly it goes on much longer than food poisoning. Hope you heal from your summer cold too! I hate those people.
I have been fairly lazy myself re PT of the knee. But its okay for me. I am always surprised how I can do little things that I couldnt before. My newest was needing to cut my toenails. Before I even realized what I was doing I just put my foot up on the chair and my knee was up by my head. And I just laughed a bit to myself and said "well lookie here, I couldn't do that before." Slowly, but surely, the ROM is coming along. I still get stiff and sore after walking alot though. I am sure that will improve in time too! Hugs!
I have been fairly lazy myself re PT of the knee. But its okay for me. I am always surprised how I can do little things that I couldnt before. My newest was needing to cut my toenails. Before I even realized what I was doing I just put my foot up on the chair and my knee was up by my head. And I just laughed a bit to myself and said "well lookie here, I couldn't do that before." Slowly, but surely, the ROM is coming along. I still get stiff and sore after walking alot though. I am sure that will improve in time too! Hugs!
OP
OP
Lori-M
senior
I've heard about Crohns but I didn't know it could be that bad! How exciting that you can put your foot up on the chair! I'm looking forward to that; I guess I need to get crackin' a little more on that ROM. Good to hear you're doing so well. My stiffness/soreness now is more after I've sat too long, or after standing in one place (like in line for the train in the morning). Thanks for stopping by and commenting!
KneeAware
post-grad
Hi Lori, nice to see you here and posting. Awwww that was no fun having food poisoning, glad you are feeling better now. Keep working at it the ROM will come..
! I find that standing in one place is the worse especially on concrete.
Hope you are soon feeling as fit as a fiddle and can get back to swimming asap!
! I find that standing in one place is the worse especially on concrete. Hope you are soon feeling as fit as a fiddle and can get back to swimming asap!
Nanners
post-grad
Oh Lori its sad but true, Crohns can be really bad. I have had to have over 15 surgeries on my body, and I believe a good portion of that was becuz of Crohns and its treatments. Its an horrible disease and one that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. But sadly its my life. Hugs!
OP
OP
Lori-M
senior
Thanks Tessa. I think I'm FINALLY on the downside of this dang cold! 
It's pretty bad when I use my breaks at work to find a quiet place and take a nap! Just a lingering cough now and I think I'm going to try hitting the pool this weekend (ours finally opened yesterday) if the weather improves. It's raining right now darn it.
Nanners - I'm sorry you have had to deal with Crohns all your life. AND a TKR on top of it! You are one strong woman!
It's pretty bad when I use my breaks at work to find a quiet place and take a nap! Just a lingering cough now and I think I'm going to try hitting the pool this weekend (ours finally opened yesterday) if the weather improves. It's raining right now darn it.Nanners - I'm sorry you have had to deal with Crohns all your life. AND a TKR on top of it! You are one strong woman!
KneeAware
post-grad
Summer seems a long way off here, still! The weather isn't the best and the temperatures are cool :( We all have some sort of cold, lol! Won't be swimming yet for a while because there aren't any indoor pools near here. I guess I could brave it and swim in the Atlantic...thought about and no, not gonna do that 
!
Feel better soon and hope your weather straightens itself out too and you can get back at it!
T.
!Feel better soon and hope your weather straightens itself out too and you can get back at it!
T.
OP
OP
Lori-M
senior
Brr, I wouldn't want to swim in the Pacific up here either! Saturday was nice enough but I realized I had no sunscreen and then the favorite daughter called to see what we were up to so we went bed shopping with her and then for pedicures. At least once I get some sunscreen and the rain stops (yes, it's raining again ) my feet will look pretty at the pool!
Have a great week Tessa!
) my feet will look pretty at the pool!Have a great week Tessa!
KneeAware
post-grad
The weather has been nice for a few days but the black flies are relentless....yuck! Suppose to cool off again tomorrow :( until the weekend. If the Pacific is as cold there as the Atlantic is here....Brrrrrrrrrrr!
Hope you have a great week too Lori...
Hope you have a great week too Lori...
OP
OP
Lori-M
senior
The time does get away from me. I can't believe it's been a month since I was here last! I hope to catch up with some folks over the next few days but it's been a rough few days and I missed a couple of work days so I'm running around trying to catch up in the office too.
I'm wondering whether anyone has experienced something similar to what I'm going through now. A few days back when we were preparing to leave the house I wanted to be sure the cat was not under our bed before I closed the door. I got down on my knees (that in itself is no small miracle!
) to look under the bed. I'm still struggling with regaining strength in my quads and hamstrings so I have some difficulty getting up and Hubs had to assist. I didn't notice anything wrong once I was up, but that effort was the only thing different from my routine over the last couple of weeks. However, now I'm dealing with pain in my lower leg, just below the knee on the medial side. It started slowly and I limped along with it but gradually it became bad enough that I've started wrapping it with an ace bandage and using crutches on my commute because I feel so unstable. The knee itself is great, no pain there. It's just the area below the knee, along the front on the medial side of the leg. It feels sort of like a bruise but it also hurts when I put weight on that leg. Hubs thinks I perhaps pulled something while getting up.
Does this sound remotely familiar to anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
I'm wondering whether anyone has experienced something similar to what I'm going through now. A few days back when we were preparing to leave the house I wanted to be sure the cat was not under our bed before I closed the door. I got down on my knees (that in itself is no small miracle!
) to look under the bed. I'm still struggling with regaining strength in my quads and hamstrings so I have some difficulty getting up and Hubs had to assist. I didn't notice anything wrong once I was up, but that effort was the only thing different from my routine over the last couple of weeks. However, now I'm dealing with pain in my lower leg, just below the knee on the medial side. It started slowly and I limped along with it but gradually it became bad enough that I've started wrapping it with an ace bandage and using crutches on my commute because I feel so unstable. The knee itself is great, no pain there. It's just the area below the knee, along the front on the medial side of the leg. It feels sort of like a bruise but it also hurts when I put weight on that leg. Hubs thinks I perhaps pulled something while getting up. Does this sound remotely familiar to anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
KneeAware
post-grad
Nice to see a post from you Lori...I hope the new problem with your knee isn't anything serious and recedes soon. Have you been getting out and about much? Swimming in that cold Pacific yet? The past couple of weeks here the ocean has be fairly tepid so the kids have really been enjoying it.
OP
OP
Lori-M
senior
I don't swim in the ocean, not due to the temperature though. There aren't really a lot of swimming beaches here, and where there are appropriate areas they're usually very crowded. I stick to the pool and since the injury, if that's what it is, I haven't been able to swim.
It doesn't appear to be the knee (knock on wood) but an area adjacent to the knee. The knee feels fine, if a little tight. I haven't been able to do the walking I like to and that always makes it tighten up some.
We took the 5th wheel up to my SIL's over Father's Day weekend; there's a nice campground about 10 minutes from her house. When you're in there you can almost imagine you're nowhere near a city; it was very cool. We're going to head back up there again in late August when my other SIL visits the family from North Carolina. And at some point before the rainy weather returns we want to take it over to the Peninsula and camp for a couple of nights with our friends.
Among other things, we helped our youngest daughter move into her new place; went to our other daughter's housewarming party and generally did family things this summer. We were supposed to go to a baseball game this Saturday but with my leg feeling this way I opted out and gave the tickets to my co-worker.
I hope your summer has been lovely!
It doesn't appear to be the knee (knock on wood) but an area adjacent to the knee. The knee feels fine, if a little tight. I haven't been able to do the walking I like to and that always makes it tighten up some. We took the 5th wheel up to my SIL's over Father's Day weekend; there's a nice campground about 10 minutes from her house. When you're in there you can almost imagine you're nowhere near a city; it was very cool. We're going to head back up there again in late August when my other SIL visits the family from North Carolina. And at some point before the rainy weather returns we want to take it over to the Peninsula and camp for a couple of nights with our friends.
Among other things, we helped our youngest daughter move into her new place; went to our other daughter's housewarming party and generally did family things this summer. We were supposed to go to a baseball game this Saturday but with my leg feeling this way I opted out and gave the tickets to my co-worker.
I hope your summer has been lovely!
- Status
Staff online
-
LegselevenStaff member since June 2, 2026 -
Roy GardinerStaff member since February, 23, 2013 -
LaylaStaff member since November 20, 2017
