Today is 16 days since the op, I'm walking better but still have some pain behind the knee, why I don't know! The swelling hasn't gone down much, and again I would have hoped by now there would have been some improvement. Maybe I'm too impatient. Also, the dressing came off on Friday, gosh what a neat job the surgeon did and the bruising very minimal. In fact, the nurse changing the dressing said she had seen some knee replacements with bruising covering the whole leg and I had got off lightly! Her only concern was a very small opening almost at the end of the incision which was weeping slightly, and therefore another dressing was put on. I will have it removed this coming Friday, and fingers crossed I will then be dressing free. Unfortunately, this dressing hasn't stuck so well, and consequently I am having to hold the edges down with micropore tape.
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| The micropore holding the edges down; the dot on the dressing is where it's weeping and very little bruising |
On Saturday, I went for a gentle stroll around Furzon Lake. I felt good, took my stick 'just in case' and walked for about 40 minutes. Saturday night and all of Sunday I suffered as my whole leg ached. Hmmm, me thinks I over did it, note to myself, stop trying to run when you can only just walk!
The exercises are also going well, but still I haven't succeeded in getting the bend to 90 degrees. It's the pull at the back of my knee that's stopping that, also I think the amount of swelling is not helping. I am seeing the physio the second week of September, so hopefully he will be able to put me right then, but I will phone for advice if, by the end of this week, I still see no improvement.
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