MerlinWizard
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Hi All!
It's been a week since I last posted and that's because my daughter got married this past weekend! Which was one of the driving factors to get my knees done to begin with.
I spent the last week preparing to host 70 people for the rehearsal dinner on Friday at our home which included shopping, cooking, preparation, set up and tear down. I am more ambulatory than my wife so it was on me to do a lot of the running around and heavy lifting, setup as well as cooking the main course in advance. Not that she didn't do anything, she did a lot but her tasks were the less physical ones - I guess it's always been that way?!?!?!?!?
I started cooking day 1 (Tuesday afternoon). I also had to do some driving to pick up some relatives who can't drive themselves and live alone. I figure I put on 1,000 miles over the course of day 2 (Wednesday) and day 8 (Tuesday) picking them up and dropping them off.
Friday was about a 20 hour day as it started at 5 AM and I got to bed I am guessing around 1 AM.
The wedding was Saturday and that day started at 6 AM with hauling everything to the venue and setting it up. This included a 300# arbor that I had built week 6-7 out from surgery for the occasion. That was the time I realized I could stand for 5 hours straight, although I paid dearly for that.
The reception lasted until 12 AM and then we had to tear everything down and get it home. So another 18 hour day. I spent basically the entire day, on my legs. And yes, I did dance - but I don't really dance anyway, I used to waltz many years ago but not even that anymore. I danced with my daughter and wife of course. Understand that I spent most of the day on my feet in DRESS SHOES! Which we all know can be rather hard - BUT - they weren't "well worn" so my new gait wasn't affected by "worn shoes" and that's a good thing because years ago I spent a lot of money on very expensive dress shoes, the kind you can have repaired if the soles go out, etc. My feet however were killing me on Sunday!
Sunday was the gift opening which we also hosted. That was a fairly short day that consisted of moving the rehearsal dinner stuff into the garage because of rain.
I of course had help through all of this, I certainly couldn't have done all of it on my own even if I was 16 like my brain thinks I am.
Monday day 7, I didn't do anything. I sat around most of the day. Then again, my legs were pretty swollen and my ROM just wasn't there. Yesterday (day 8) was better and today I am back to work with a break at lunch time to empty out the trailers from the venue.
I would NEVER have been able to do this had I not had the surgery to begin with, not in a million years. I would have been down for a week after Friday and probably not even have gotten through Friday.
While I am going to pay for this for some time, it was worth it. I will spend this week taking it easy and go from there!
It's been a week since I last posted and that's because my daughter got married this past weekend! Which was one of the driving factors to get my knees done to begin with.
I spent the last week preparing to host 70 people for the rehearsal dinner on Friday at our home which included shopping, cooking, preparation, set up and tear down. I am more ambulatory than my wife so it was on me to do a lot of the running around and heavy lifting, setup as well as cooking the main course in advance. Not that she didn't do anything, she did a lot but her tasks were the less physical ones - I guess it's always been that way?!?!?!?!?
I started cooking day 1 (Tuesday afternoon). I also had to do some driving to pick up some relatives who can't drive themselves and live alone. I figure I put on 1,000 miles over the course of day 2 (Wednesday) and day 8 (Tuesday) picking them up and dropping them off.
Friday was about a 20 hour day as it started at 5 AM and I got to bed I am guessing around 1 AM.
The wedding was Saturday and that day started at 6 AM with hauling everything to the venue and setting it up. This included a 300# arbor that I had built week 6-7 out from surgery for the occasion. That was the time I realized I could stand for 5 hours straight, although I paid dearly for that.
The reception lasted until 12 AM and then we had to tear everything down and get it home. So another 18 hour day. I spent basically the entire day, on my legs. And yes, I did dance - but I don't really dance anyway, I used to waltz many years ago but not even that anymore. I danced with my daughter and wife of course. Understand that I spent most of the day on my feet in DRESS SHOES! Which we all know can be rather hard - BUT - they weren't "well worn" so my new gait wasn't affected by "worn shoes" and that's a good thing because years ago I spent a lot of money on very expensive dress shoes, the kind you can have repaired if the soles go out, etc. My feet however were killing me on Sunday!
Sunday was the gift opening which we also hosted. That was a fairly short day that consisted of moving the rehearsal dinner stuff into the garage because of rain.
I of course had help through all of this, I certainly couldn't have done all of it on my own even if I was 16 like my brain thinks I am.
Monday day 7, I didn't do anything. I sat around most of the day. Then again, my legs were pretty swollen and my ROM just wasn't there. Yesterday (day 8) was better and today I am back to work with a break at lunch time to empty out the trailers from the venue.
I would NEVER have been able to do this had I not had the surgery to begin with, not in a million years. I would have been down for a week after Friday and probably not even have gotten through Friday.
While I am going to pay for this for some time, it was worth it. I will spend this week taking it easy and go from there!