MissMolly
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Sounds like everyone if progressing well!
Interesting! Have you thought of starting a thread to track your own weekly recovery? That way your recovery from week to week will be easier for future readers to follow than it is, when it's interjected into this thread journaling my recovery at 9 days, or into Chuckanuts thread about his recovery at 5 weeks. Although I guess you are closer in recovery time to Chuckanut than to me, so maybe your posts would be more helpful over in his thread?[...]Here's my 6 week post-op update:[...]
Interesting! Have you thought of starting a thread to track your own weekly recovery? That way your recovery from week to week will be easier for future readers to follow than it is, when it's interjected into this thread journaling my recovery at 9 days, or into Chuckanuts thread about his recovery at 5 weeks. Although I guess you are closer in recovery time to Chuckanut than to me, so maybe your posts would be more helpful over in his thread?
Of course you are always welcome to post on any thread. Just thought I'd mention the idea of starting your own recovery journal thread in case that appeals to you. I'd just hate for casual future readers to think that at 9 days one can simply toss one's canes and ice machine away and happily go bike riding to get the mail.
So glad things are going well for W2R and Chuckanut!
Here's my 6 week post-op update:
Cane, walker and ice machine are now in storage in the basement. I do keep a spare in my car, just in case I have to park far away.
I am also struggling with stamina. I started taking Iron and B12 in hopes of a boost. Nothing earth shattering yet.
Hang in there everyone!
Have you thought about taking protein shakes to help with the stamina . I was taking Orgain protein powder and it really helped .
I stumbled across this on the Internet, so you have been warned.
It's called the Tailgate PT for the Knee. First, get your hands on a pickup truck. It doesn't even need to be street legal. Drop the tailgate down. Sit on the tailgate and swing your knees back and forth. On the backward swing gently force the knee to go a little farther than normal so you feel the stretch. Do this for as long as it takes you to down a few rounds of your favorite beer. If it hurts too much, drink more beer.
I stumbled across this on the Internet, so you have been warned.
It's called the Tailgate PT for the Knee. First, get your hands on a pickup truck. It doesn't even need to be street legal. Drop the tailgate down. Sit on the tailgate and swing your knees back and forth. On the backward swing gently force the knee to go a little farther than normal so you feel the stretch. Do this for as long as it takes you to down a few rounds of your favorite beer. If it hurts too much, drink more beer.
Still celebrating baby steps towards recovery.
My range of motion as measured by my PT increased dramatically yesterday, from awful (69 degrees) to a much better 82 degrees. Once it gets to 90 degrees I can shift from home PT to PT at their facility.
I did my own laundry all by myself yesterday, and put it all away! Carefully, making sure not to twist my knee, and with rest periods every few minutes. But I did it.
The energy drain of the first week seems to be improving a lot, too. Trying to be careful not to overdo, as I build my stamina back up a bit.
and is now drinking 3 cases a week(that's ~10 beers a day). That doesn't seem better than taking a few extra Oxys.
awesome!!
it took me quite a while to get any type of energy and stamina back, lol I really think that was the most frustrating thing
Glad you are progressing though
Well, yesterday and today I am demonstrating the age old axiom, "Two steps forward, one step back". Zero stamina again, lots of swelling and pain. My PT said I overdid and I think she was right. But anyway, with my ice machine and prescription pain medication I am doing OK and I will ice and rest.
Well, yesterday and today I am demonstrating the age old axiom, "Two steps forward, one step back". Zero stamina again, lots of swelling and pain. My PT said I overdid and I think she was right. But anyway, with my ice machine and prescription pain medication I am doing OK and I will ice and rest.
Sorry to hear, but not unusual. From chuckanut's reports it sounds like it's sort of a zig-zag to recovery rather than a straight line.
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The folks on bonesmart.org are fond of showing two drawings side by side:
1. Planned recovery - nice and linear
2. Actual recovery - squiggles for most of the ink and then a straight shot to the finish
OTOH, can one simply do nothing special other than light household duties for months and have an adequate recovery? That seems to fly in the face of the idea that we have to get moving and put some stress on the joint, or lose our motion.
st night I wanted to do without pain pills at bedtime, a habit that I seemed to acquire about a week ago I guess. Even if my pain is just moderate, I can't seem to get to sleep easily without medication; yet two pain pills have me sleeping within 20 minutes. Anyway, I was unsuccessful in pursuing sleep without them last night so I took some at 3:25 AM and was asleep by 3:40 or so. Logically I know it is too soon to be concerned about opioid addiction so I keep telling myself that but the fear of it is still there.
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Hey, W2R, haven't heard anything from you lately.
How are you doing with your recovery?
omni