...pain level for knee is lower than I expected. Not as bad as hip or shoulder (so far, they put a block in my leg and they told me that it should last 36 hours. By the clock on my wall it is about expired.
...hospital nurses good looking as ever. Hospital paperwork worse than ever. Every time you go out a door you have to have all the most recent paperwork on whatever you had done and if it don't all agree with previous paperwork you have to stand or sit there until they get it straightened up. I am not kidding ya there. When I checked out of the room I was in on the fourth floor I had to sign out and get a shitpot of paperwork. When I got to the ground floor I had to present those papers to the ground floor I had to check out with them and pick up a couple more pieces of paper.
...on the way home we picked up almost $500 in prescriptions. (my cost on top of insurance) I walked around with a walker most of the day. There are some narrow places I can't get thru with the walker so I use a cane.
...pain! They gave me a BLOCK prior to the surgery and I overheard the anesthesiologist discussing the use of Fentanyl. I don't know if they were talking about giving it to me or using it themselves. Told me it would last about 36 hours. I feel worse now than I did when I came out of surgery.
...I can take a sponge bath if I can get mz ribit to give it to me, otherwise it will be about three days before I can reassume my Kingly fragrance. Til then it will be "Hot Summer Night at the Sewage Treatment Plant".
...I would rate the pain of hip surgery as the most painful cause they have to do a lot of grinding inside the hip to make the ball fit into the socket. Shoulder might be a little more painful because they usually reverse the socket and then fit the ball in. The shoulder has an advantage because you don't have to walk on it unless you are a monkey or a greek. The knee ssthus far has been the least painful. Mz ribit says her knee surgery was the worst thing she has experienced since our honeymoon.
...got one of these rented from medical supply place.
http://www.euromedical.co.uk/images_products/HD_10000_4621001807+E.jpg
...it's spozed to move your leg about and stretch the ligaments and tendons and other stuff found in the leg. They told me to start off at 60 degrees and try to work up to 90 within the next 21 days. I was at 90 before I reached the end of the first hour. No brain, no pain!
Home now, seem to be mentally alert but really tired. Surgery takes a lot out of ya (har har har!)
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