Diary of a New Knee - Part 8 - Forewarned?

After yesterday's torture session, my personal physical torturer, Allison, told me next week we were going to get me on my stomach on the bed and work on bending my knee that way. I'm not sure she should have told me!

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Diary of a New Knee - Part 7 - The Staple remover

Yesterday, I got the staples removed from my incision. I am not a squeamish person, but some of those staples felt like they were imbedded all the way to the back of my leg, instead of being confined to my knee. But all 26 of the suckers are gone and are now replaced by 6 steri-strips. Now when I look at my leg, I don't feel like it is as sore looking. And that one staple that stood up at an odd angle - gone!

Therapy is going pretty well. Allison, my personal physical torturer, is working my knee hard to get the bend back. Believe me, I miss being able to bend it normally and scoot around in my desk chair.

Now if the outside temps would ease a bit ...

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Diary of a New Knee - Part 6

Up early again today and getting ready to straighten out whether or not I do have an 8:45 am doctor's appointment. Yesterday, I spent some time on the phone with the 5th floor nursing manager discussing the good and bad parts of my hospital stay. It was really good to get some feedback from the hospital on the email that I sent them when I got home.

Last night I finished with the self injection blood thinner. Yay! While my diabetes is not under good control right now, I hope that I never get to the point where I have to inject myself. I've had enough of that.



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