Feeling very much better and more mobile, except that the blasted knee still won't bend properly, but the weather has been a bit depressing, and now I think I'm coming down with a cold. Bother
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I should think that getting out would be the best medicine for the knee. Do your PT exercises religiously as those who have gone through a knee replacement say it is the most fundamental help and very necessary to recovering movement. You can't get around with a stick yet, then? I forget what the timing is for all that (since this will also be in my own future I should pay attention).
I'm a bit behind with my exercises, because the wound took so long to heal, but catching up, I hope. I can manage with a stick in the house, and will leave the crutch off with the physiotherapist when I see him on Monday. The stick is much less cumbersome.
I'm almost tempted to try the cake thing, and I don't even like fruit cake! They also have a Christmas pudding recipe that includes a whole orange in the middle, like a Sussex pond pudding, that looks quite interesting.
The hospital was the Whittington at Archway - the only hospital named after a pantomime character, as my brother pointed out. It's decorated throughout with pictures of cats, and there is a statue of the original cat on the road outside on the milestone Whittington is supposed to have stopped at.
I know the Whittington, it's a fun story attached to it :-) Son, Ben, worked there a few years ago and daughter-in-law has only just left there to start her PhD and have a baby :-) Ben lived at the bottom of the hill in Archway when he was a poor starving med student ;-)
Good gracious woman, it's not been a month since you had your knee replaced. It's 3 months for us and we still aren't able to completely lay it flat to the floor....really close, like maybe a smidgeon or a pink finger width. Your doing flights of stairs to get out and about so I think that's fabulous.
that's encouraging! I can lay it flat ok, but the bending is still a bit uncomfortable. They told me it would take six weeks, but I suspect that was rather optimistic. I'm very lazy about exercise, so the stairs up to my flat are pretty much my complete exercise regime - I have to climb them because otherwise I can't get in or out!
I think the most effective thing for me with the bending in the beginning was the stationary bike we have. It was great for no pain getting the knee to do what knees do.
DO YOUR EXERCISES ! THEY ARE CRITICAL TO RECOVERY.
One easy exercise is lying on your tummy on your bed, and lay so your knees are just at the edge of the bed and let your lower legs hang off the bed, then let gravity do it's work. You may want to start with just your feet hanging off the bed, then let a little more hang off the bed of your lower legs every day. Really good for stretching the muscles out.
The stairs....wow, that's so great. Going down...the negative space still gets me sometimes.
My ortho-doc told me it would be 6-9 months before all the swelling goes does but it would always be a little more "full" that the other knee. I have no pain now....I want to say the pain went away in like 6 weeks at the most.
Sounds like your on your way, but really, do your exercises.
I'm back to doing the full regime of exercises now, altyhough I took it a bit easy when the wound was still not healing. The bed idea sounds good - I'll add that to the list. Going down stairs is definitely more worrying than coming up. The pain is definitely getting better, and I'm not taking nearly as many painkillers as I was.
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Hope the cold comes to nothing.
What a brilliant idea by Waitrose selling all the ingredients for a Christmas cake in one box :-)
By the way, which hospital did your op? I kept meaning to ask and forgetting!
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The hospital was the Whittington at Archway - the only hospital named after a pantomime character, as my brother pointed out. It's decorated throughout with pictures of cats, and there is a statue of the original cat on the road outside on the milestone Whittington is supposed to have stopped at.
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DO YOUR EXERCISES ! THEY ARE CRITICAL TO RECOVERY.
One easy exercise is lying on your tummy on your bed, and lay so your knees are just at the edge of the bed and let your lower legs hang off the bed, then let gravity do it's work. You may want to start with just your feet hanging off the bed, then let a little more hang off the bed of your lower legs every day. Really good for stretching the muscles out.
The stairs....wow, that's so great. Going down...the negative space still gets me sometimes.
My ortho-doc told me it would be 6-9 months before all the swelling goes does but it would always be a little more "full" that the other knee. I have no pain now....I want to say the pain went away in like 6 weeks at the most.
Sounds like your on your way, but really, do your exercises.
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