I had full knee replacement surgery done seven weeks ago. I am much, much better than I was. I’m having times that are pretty much pain free. I’m slowly regaining my flexibility. What I’m really looking forward to are good weeks. I’m still merely having good days sprinkled here and there. The good days are […]
Knee Report – Seven Weeks Out Read More »
I had full knee replacement surgery done six weeks ago. Today is not the greatest day. I’m in some pain, but mainly I feel really stiff. I don’t think this has anything to do with being six weeks out from the surgery, but instead, is due to having been at Orycon all weekend, where I
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I had a weird occurrence last night. My husband called it “weird by Cutter standards” which is honestly saying something. I took one oxycodone pill around 8:45 PM, then was in bed by 9, probably asleep by 9:30. I woke up around 11. I was too warm, sweating through the sheets. My heart rate had
This past week has been hard. I’ve had at least three days of what I would call backslide, where I wasn’t making good progress. I’ve felt as though I’m more stiff than usual, not bending well at all. Conversely, I woke up Friday morning and realized that the swelling in my knee had gone down
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Yesterday was a hard day. One of the worst so far. You’d think that after four weeks, it would consistently be better. That hasn’t been the case, at least for me. I woke up feeling really rough. You know those mornings when even the air feels heavy, and it takes more effort than it should
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I had a full knee replacement surgery done four weeks ago. Tuesday last week I had a definite shift, turned a corner, as it were. The pain levels dropped dramatically. Instead of all my muscles screaming, it changed overnight into more of a stretchy hurt. I can work with this. I’ve been stretching more, trying
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I figured I should post about how I’m doing on the writing front, specifically. I feel as though yesterday was a pretty typical day for me. I got to the computer by 9 AM, wrote 500 words of a Medium post in 30 minutes. On the one hand, that was awesome. It was a good
Three weeks ago I had full knee replacement surgery done. I continue to improve. Because I spent last week in the tiny house, then came back to the main house for the weekend, I have a good set of benchmarks against which to measure myself. And though I am occasionally discouraged–this weekend was difficult for
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Two weeks ago I had full knee replacement surgery. It’s kind of amazing how good I feel compared to then. I’m tracking different things right now than I was. So I figured I’d do an update on those. Strength: As my PT said, my strength just kind of has been coming back, without me working
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A couple of days ago, on Thursday, I came down with a really bad migraine. It was pretty obvious what had triggered it. I also knew that my hormones were kind of all over the place, and that they’d contributed to the migraine. By late Friday, I finally felt as though I’d recovered and was
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