Good morning
@Gramanator57!. How nice to open my thread and see someone stop in. YIKES! Today is one week for me and there is NO WAY I could even fathom doing this again.
I am sure the further I get out, it will be like everyone tells me "You will wish you had done it sooner!" Friends that have had TKR or know someone that has had it seem to think it is like having a bad cold.
I have so appreciated the people that have posted honestly about what their recovery was really like. Their stories have made me not feel like a failure at this or be scared out of my wits when something happens. I realize doctors, PAs and PTs do this all the time. This is MY first time and I have been scared, worried, extremely curious, and frustrated all rolled up into one big baby at times. This morning, I decided I need to just stay in bed and collect myself before subjecting my loving husband to my tears each morning. The pain meds have really been a struggle for me and with the addtion of the other health scares, I think things are just piling on.
BUT, THERE IS NO TURNING BACK NOW! Gotta make the best of it and move on. I do hope you have a beautiful day filled with less pain, the strenght to resist torture from PT, and the promise of a future of knee knocking fun times!
I am trying to schedule the bloodwork for the liver and kidney panels here locally so I don't have to travel so much, so soon. Today is shower day, PT comes @1:30, and a nice nap is planned somewhere in between the CPM, icing, and elelvating.
Does anyone have any experience with the Aquacells and telling if they are still waterproof? Mine seems to have gotten darker and there looks like a very small split in the under padding, although the top still looks intact.
Hope everyone has the day they envision!
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Thank you!
"Buddy" thinks "Ralph" is hilarious!!
. The knot on my thigh - she wasn't concerned about. She feels I am having a reaction (not surprised considering my sensitivites to drugs) to the Xarelto and that is why I have such excessive bruising. This bruising is behind my knee and it is VERY swollen. Swollen to the point I have a crease there now. I was worried about the skin breaking down there with the swelling and blood pooling. PA was concerned about the redness and has started me on Keflex for 14 days. I also have to lay on my stomach as much as I can to relax the crease and help it stay dry and get some of the swelling out of it. How interesting! No compression stocking until Friday. If the redness looks better - put it back on - if not, then come back to see her Thursday. As much as I have griped and complained about that stocking, after the 40 min. drive back home, the knee and leg are so swollen, I saw that the stocking was really doing its job. So that, my dear friends, that was my saga today. She also took my walker away! Said I was walking great. 1 week out!
It will be easier in the house with a cane. I don't feel confident without something yet. PT comes tomorrow and I will let her evaluate and take her expertise. PA did tell me that she had just seen a woman older than me, that was one week ahead of me - she walked in the office without a cane or walker with heels on! 
