RSKY
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I went back for my three month checkup on Tuesday the 22nd. Had a list of gripes for the doctor. My knee is still swollen somewhat, not as bad as a month ago but still swollen. The knee pops with every step I take. It seems so loud to me that it is hard to believe my wife can't hear it while walking beside me. And my knee aches. It aches all the time. So I politely unloaded on the doc. And he laughed at me! Seriously, he laughed and my wife laughed with him. Got me up on the table and measured the bend in my knee, it was 135 degrees and would have been more except my rolled up jeans were in the way. Then he manipulated my knee to make the popping noise and had my wife stand close where she could here it. Then he put his finger exactly on the places that my knee aches all the time. Then he asked me how many times a day the knee gives way and I nearly fall forward. I said once or twice.
Then he told me that I was at the point most people were at six to nine months after surgery. And my wife laughed and said I told you so.
He said he had people that only had 90 degree bending at eighteen months. And they were tickled to death about it.
Then he went into his 'I told you this before' mode and pointed out that the scar is still red and that when the knee is completely healed it will be white and then I can come back and gripe at him. Wife told the doc that I was expecting to run in 5k races by now. And they both laughed. He said six to eighteen months for full recovery. And I had to admit that is what he told me before the surgery.
Anyway, at three months I have full extension, 135+ bending, no side bending, minor swelling on the upper outside of the knee, a normal (so the doc says) popping when I take a step, and a varying amount of pain or aching depending on how much I have been on the knee that day. I can walk on grass or carpet and it doesn't seem to bother but concrete makes it hurt. We walked thru Lowes, Home Depot, Sears, Rural King, and Sam's Club today and I used the electric buggies in three of those stores. He11, I ain't proud. I also have a handicapped sticker and use it to park IF there are several places open. If there is only one or two I let somebody else have them. I am also taking Naproxen Sodium (Aleve) when needed. That is just as soon as it starts aching.
That is where I am at three months after surgery.
Oh yeah, I also don't need a barometer anymore. I can tell when the pressure is dropping because the knee aches even if I haven't been on it much.
I do NOT regret having the surgery. I am just impatient to get back to 100% and get on with things. And it gripes me that my wife is doing things I normally would do. Like putting the shopping carts away after unloading them. Taking the trash cans out to the road. Doing most of the prep work setting the house up for the thirty six guests we had Thanksgiving. And doing all the other stuff that as the man of the house I feel I should be doing. And trying to wait on me all the time. And while I have always had to slow down walking and wait on her short legs to catch her up to my long ones now she is across the street and I'm just at the center and there she is waiting on me.
Kinda gets on the nerves if you know what I mean.
RSKY
Then he told me that I was at the point most people were at six to nine months after surgery. And my wife laughed and said I told you so.
He said he had people that only had 90 degree bending at eighteen months. And they were tickled to death about it.
Then he went into his 'I told you this before' mode and pointed out that the scar is still red and that when the knee is completely healed it will be white and then I can come back and gripe at him. Wife told the doc that I was expecting to run in 5k races by now. And they both laughed. He said six to eighteen months for full recovery. And I had to admit that is what he told me before the surgery.
Anyway, at three months I have full extension, 135+ bending, no side bending, minor swelling on the upper outside of the knee, a normal (so the doc says) popping when I take a step, and a varying amount of pain or aching depending on how much I have been on the knee that day. I can walk on grass or carpet and it doesn't seem to bother but concrete makes it hurt. We walked thru Lowes, Home Depot, Sears, Rural King, and Sam's Club today and I used the electric buggies in three of those stores. He11, I ain't proud. I also have a handicapped sticker and use it to park IF there are several places open. If there is only one or two I let somebody else have them. I am also taking Naproxen Sodium (Aleve) when needed. That is just as soon as it starts aching.
That is where I am at three months after surgery.
Oh yeah, I also don't need a barometer anymore. I can tell when the pressure is dropping because the knee aches even if I haven't been on it much.
I do NOT regret having the surgery. I am just impatient to get back to 100% and get on with things. And it gripes me that my wife is doing things I normally would do. Like putting the shopping carts away after unloading them. Taking the trash cans out to the road. Doing most of the prep work setting the house up for the thirty six guests we had Thanksgiving. And doing all the other stuff that as the man of the house I feel I should be doing. And trying to wait on me all the time. And while I have always had to slow down walking and wait on her short legs to catch her up to my long ones now she is across the street and I'm just at the center and there she is waiting on me.
Kinda gets on the nerves if you know what I mean.
RSKY
