As I sit here four days after surgery. I'm quite surprised at how different this recovery is from the first...
The pain isn't the same, the walking isn't the same, the support isn't the same.
The pain, well they gave me a nerve block before surgery to help with the pain management. After surgery I was much less agitated then last time. I was still in a great deal of pain. They tried morphine in the hospital and that brought nausea in waves. I couldn't keep anything down. Once we stopped the morphine the nausea went away. It wasn't until yesterday that I finally got ahead of the pain. Since that has happened, the pain was gone way down averaging about 2-3 on the pain scale.
The walking, well my right leg isn't nearly as strong as my left one was before the first surgery. The way they wrapped my leg this time has made it VERY hard to hop/scoot/walk in any sort of fashion. So I haven't been moving much which is probably why the pain is much less now. Wednesday at my post op appointment they will take off this wrap and then that should allow me to move better. If not it's going to be a LONG six weeks.
The support, well I went through all sorts of waves in this regard the first time. There were many more highs last time. I just seem to be stuck at the bottom this time. I don't really know how to change that.
Well that's all for now...4 days into recovery
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