Ok y'all, I'm having a total knee replacement in like 10 days.
I've needed it for a very long time (10-15 yrs ish) and I just wasn't really ready to go through it. But it's beyond time, I can't do anything because of the pain etc.
I'd be lying if I said I was totally copacetic about it because it's a pretty big surgery. And the recovery is an absolute bitch.
Anyone go through it and have some helpful advice? I actually don't know anyone I can chat with about it and I think it would be nice to get some tips on stuff that the medical info doesn't tell you.
Like, what are some comforting or pain-relieving things that you liked? What can I do before to make the after easier? Any assistive devices other than a walker/cane that made life easier? Stuff like that.
You're the best!
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Well, I have a matched set of knees now, both arthricsopically patched up. My goal is to be able to dance at my daughters wedding in October. Norco is making me itch all over 😬 But I can't do without it, nerve pain flareup has my leg from hip to foot on fire with pain. So thankful for pain meds, except for the constipation. Havn't slept much since Thursday night. Thats the latest, back to your regularly scheduled programming.
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T-10 Pre-Op And The Weird Things You Do Before Surgery
Caveat for anyone who doesn't want to see these (there are probably a lot more coming): I'm tagging them all as 'recovery blog' if you want to block it!
I've been trying to maintain a certain nonchalance - sure, surgery is going to suck, but I've already done everything that comes after.
I know I can do it again, and at least this time I can plan for it.
When I got home from Montana, brace and crutches in tow, I hadn't even finished unpacking from my move. There were boxes everywhere places, clothes that needed a home, and crutch-friendly pathways were non-existent. I didn't have estim, or ice packs, or a wedge pillow.
This time I have all that and more! Possibly too much more.
I suspect my mother and aunt have been looking at knee replacement surgeries for ideas of what I might need, but we are on very different pages.
I love them dearly, but I will NOT be using a bedside commode. I will be getting my nerve-blocked butt the ten feet it takes to get me to the bathroom. The surgeon has already made i clear that it's better to get up and moving sooner rather than later, anyway.
I do, however, think they're starting to get to me. Because, and not to be too dramatic, it feels a little like I'm dying.
It's not because I'm suffering or in total agony. But there's this odd background checklist of 'things I can do now' and 'things I won't be able to do for a while'. And it feels weirdly like I'm putting my affairs in order. Which, really, I am - recovery from surgery, to the level I'm at now (but hopefully better!) is at least six months.
I went grocery shopping, picked up the requisite stool softener (hardcore painkillers), and finished a few of the tasks I promised my mother I'd do weeks ago.
I called my dad's sister and asked her out for coffee, since we only get together at the family Christmas party and I'm not planning to go (it's three days post-op.)
And I have been cleaning; in suspicious new ways.
My parents' house is a visual representation of the marriage of ADHD (my mother, myself, my younger brother - we care but the doing is herculanean) and autism (my dad and older brother - they don't care and don't know why they should.)
So believe me when I say the three hours I spent washing windows, scrubbing switch plates, and dusting baseboards is seriously out of place.
It's just...the little things, y'know?
My bedroom windows haven't been cleaned since before we moved in 15 years ago.
It wouldn't normally register on my radar as a worthy task (they're windows, dirt happens!) but dammit I want to be blinded by sunlight after my surgery.
I want to wake up to snow and wish I had my sunglasses.
(much clean, very shiny!)
I know no one else at home cares. I don't expect them to even notice, really. Hell, I barely care. But there's some weird mental-physical link that's compelled me to make a three (3!!) page to-do list of odds and end tasks like this.
Maybe I'm just looking for ways to stay busy. I'll never admit to it.
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Amazing how much of my ability to write is tied to my ability to leap up and pace around my apartment at top speed whenever I get stuck.
This message brought to you by finally reaching the point in my recovery from knee surgery when I can do this again and almost immediately getting back into writing.
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Things I said while recuperating from surgery and on pain pills
Me waking up from surgery: He's hot but I have some very choice words for the doctor
Me for the 30th time in an hour: i love you
Mom: love you too
A minute later
Me: did i tell you i love you?
Me: I feel like I have spiderwebs on me
Friend: huh??
Me freaking out: AM I SPIDERMAM???
Mom talking about time
Me from the living room screaming: TICK TOCK!!!
Me: My face feels like an old man's saggy watermelon
My family: Excuse me 😳
Cursing my doctor everyday
Donna's gonna steal my pants 😭
Knee dr and I talking about pain:
Me: Yeah, I've been crying nearly everyday.
Dr.: Me too
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me after knee surgery: that`s AWFUL im never agreeing to any type of surgery ever again
me now (really wanting to continue skipping school): well....i have one more knee...why not
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Knee surgery on 14 September. Already off a walker and only use a cane if I go out to the shops. Doing fantastic, according to my physical therapist, whose name happens to be Roger *snicker*. Can’t wait until I can put lotion on it because the dry, scaly bits snag in my shorts and sheets, and it makes me feel a little squicked.
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