Progress. Or, Day 5 Home.

[lillian13]

Have now seen the home PT person twice. She is very impressed with my progress and warned me about going too fast. :-) Now that the bandage is off I am getting more twinges and weird sensations inside my knee. Still no real pain, so I'm ahead on that score. I get warning stabs when I bend too far or do something the knee isn't ready for yet, but the chronic pain I've been living with for so long is completely gone. The top right part of my knee is completely numb; I may or may not get sensation back.

I can tell that I'm using a lot of energy healing; I'm logy all day even after a decent night's sleep. No real ambition to do anything, though I am kinda bored. I get up, shower, breakfast, get in the CPM machine (or wait for the physical therapist), ice my knee, watch tv, someone comes over, more CPM, exercises, etc. I'm very glad for the National Geographic Channel, let me tell you. I have to keep my knee elevated which means all I can really do is surf the net, watch TV, and read.

I've also taken some kind of wobbly colt-steps without the walker. Weird sensation inside my knee--no pain, just weird, which I assume is my new knee joint moving around.

So far I have cards from my coworkers and tehomet , plus a really great flower arrangement in a smiley face mug from my company.  dremiel  came over today and gamely (she's a vegetarian) got me a pulled pork sandwich at Whole Foods. Who make a surprisingly good pulled pork sandwich.

My brother was supposed to drop by tonight but he went to a drug rep dinner so it may not happen. I mainly need him to shift the sofa as I think I dropped my debit card in there. *sigh*

Comments

[vickita]

the chronic pain I've been living with for so long is completely gone

This is what I have heard about these things. Our public affairs person at the Lab has rheumatoid arthritis, so, even though she's younger than I am, she's had both hips and both knees replaced. And she told me once that the remarkable thing about doing it is that as soon as you wake up from the surgery, that chronic pain is GONE. I mean, sure there's pain from *the surgery*, but it's not the same.

So yay, doing well!!! But don't you go overboard, there, missy. *g* Listen to the nice therapists and the messages your body sends you.

And send me one of those sandwiches, willya? ;-D HMF is down there tonight playing at Threadgill's, and I was all, "Bring me some peach cobbler!"

[tehomet]

The chronic pain I've been living with for so long is completely gone

This is wonderful news. Delighted for you.

It must be hard to have to sit about when you're normally such an energetic and busy person.

[dremiel.livejournal.com]

Anything for you dearest!!!

Don't go too fast. If you need card-retrieval-sofa-diving tomorrow give me a shout.