BigRed
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All of the pre-op exams are done and the last minute home preparations are finished too. Now I have to try to keep myself as calm as I can as I wait for thursday, the day of my BTKR surgery. I will be working right up through Wednesday so that should help to keep me busy.
I am having a hard time dealing with well-meaning but not very helpful comments from people. I am nervous enough without getting unsolicited advice or feeling like I have to explain my situation to others. My husband has said to ignore it but that is not always so easy.
Comments have been made questioning the hospital because it is a teaching hospital and a student might be working on me part of the time. (I know this is true but my doctor is the head of the department and will be supervising the entire time.) Another has to do with my choices of rehab. Still another questions the safety of doing both knees at once because her doctor will not do bilateral knees stating it is unsafe.
I have handled them for the most part up until now but as I get closer to the date, am off my pain meds, and am getting more and more nervous, it is getting harder to ignore what people say. I guess I am just scared. I will make it four more days!!!
I am having a hard time dealing with well-meaning but not very helpful comments from people. I am nervous enough without getting unsolicited advice or feeling like I have to explain my situation to others. My husband has said to ignore it but that is not always so easy.
Comments have been made questioning the hospital because it is a teaching hospital and a student might be working on me part of the time. (I know this is true but my doctor is the head of the department and will be supervising the entire time.) Another has to do with my choices of rehab. Still another questions the safety of doing both knees at once because her doctor will not do bilateral knees stating it is unsafe.
I have handled them for the most part up until now but as I get closer to the date, am off my pain meds, and am getting more and more nervous, it is getting harder to ignore what people say. I guess I am just scared. I will make it four more days!!!