Yet another knee update

 11th September

The physio did phone back last Monday afternoon and seemed totally unconcerned about my fears. She ruled out nerve damage, that is very rare apparently, and said it was all to do with the muscles healing. She mentioned that knee replacement is brutal, the first thing the surgeon does is dislocate the knee cap and then pulls all the muscles, tendons etc out of the way before sawing away the knee joints. Holes are then drilled in the ends of the bone and the new joints hammered in place! No wonder healing takes time and because of my unfortunate mishap a few weeks ago, mine may take longer. So I have had a prescription for Co-codamal which I must take three times a day along with Ibuprofen. There are side effects..... constipation....oh joy of joys!

Getting on and off the boat has also been better than I expected. Lack of water meant FS was sitting on the bottom so no need to step up onto the back deck, just straight across. Getting down into the boat was slightly more challenging but going backwards and stepping down with the bad leg whilst hanging onto Ian, worked a treat. What didn't work so well, and something neither of us had even thought about, was how to get into bed? At our son's in Milton Keynes I had loads of space to swing the bad leg up onto the mattress, but in FS I have about a foot between the wall and the bed. The radiator hindered as well, and Ian even had thoughts of having to remove it, but after a bit of trial and error, getting my bottom as far up the bed as possible, almost on the pillows, gave me just enough room to swing the leg up.

We had hoped to take FS to Huddelsford the third weekend of September for the Heritage boat gathering, but lack of water has seriously effected the locks at Fradley and Glascote, and the Erewash is more like a shallow ditch as no water is coming from the feeder at Langley Mill. I did wonder if the event would be cancelled, but checking on Lichfield & Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust website, found it's still going ahead. Click HERE if you would like to attend as there is more to see and do than I expected. We contacted Christine the organiser and asked if we could take the motorhome instead. We got the thumbs up so that's something to look forward to. 

 I don't expect to blog again for a while unless there is anything more to report about the knee replacement, but I expect to continue with my ramblings once we are on the move again.