rene: Status
It's been a while -- I thought people might like a status report on rene and her new bionic knee.
First off, she's doing okay. She still uses the cane but mostly just as a kind of security blanket. She can get around just fine, can drive some, and has been working at the office a few days a week (working from home the rest of the time). She's mostly off Vicodin and uses ibuprofen when she can.
Unfortunately, the weather lately has been taking its toll, as I feared. Between the cold and the dampness her knee's really been hurting, and having to favor one knee for so long is making the other knee start to hurt. rene being who she is, now she's worried that they'll have to replace the other knee and maybe both hips. I think that's going to be a ways off, and I keep trying to tell her that although she's had problems for nearly a year, she only had the surgery a little over two months ago.
The pain level is starting to take its toll, though. She can usually sleep okay, but not always, and if she doesn't sleep well it just makes things worse the next day. Like I said, she's mostly off Vicodin, but some days are better than others.
One other piece of good news: rene hasn't smoked in 75 days!
First off, she's doing okay. She still uses the cane but mostly just as a kind of security blanket. She can get around just fine, can drive some, and has been working at the office a few days a week (working from home the rest of the time). She's mostly off Vicodin and uses ibuprofen when she can.
Unfortunately, the weather lately has been taking its toll, as I feared. Between the cold and the dampness her knee's really been hurting, and having to favor one knee for so long is making the other knee start to hurt. rene being who she is, now she's worried that they'll have to replace the other knee and maybe both hips. I think that's going to be a ways off, and I keep trying to tell her that although she's had problems for nearly a year, she only had the surgery a little over two months ago.
The pain level is starting to take its toll, though. She can usually sleep okay, but not always, and if she doesn't sleep well it just makes things worse the next day. Like I said, she's mostly off Vicodin, but some days are better than others.
One other piece of good news: rene hasn't smoked in 75 days!