I am up at 3 AM, unable to sleep or lie quietly so I had to leave the bedroom.
Got the knee replacement done on the 17th and it went without a hitch. Mostly. lol No blood clot issues anyway. GUess the knee was crooked and they had to practically alligator-wrestle that bad boy out of there after they sawed the bone. So my thigh and calf are very bruised and black and blue Quite the sight to see. Recovery is going well...had surgery on Wednesday and left the hospital on Friday.Going in tomorrow for a post op check up that is usually dome at 2 weeks but it will only be 1. Not sure if he'll take the stitches out or not, but I am having home health and PT both in so maybe the nurse can take them out as he has shuffled the post op appointments due to a "conferences curriculum" or something silly. lol I just took a couple of more pain pills, so will be heading back to bed shortly. My friend Kat is driving me to the appointment tomorrow. We have to leave around noon for the 2:30 appt. We'll have lunch after..I'm ready to get out of the house. lol
My beloved sister surrendered in her battle with cancer on February 12th. She was a courageous woman and there is a gaping hole in the heart of my family. Because it was so close to my surgical date the drs didn't want me attending any big gatherings because of viral infection risk--the last thing I needed was a bug that could turn into pneumonia during the sedentary recuperation period after one of these things.. so I did not get to attend the memorial service. We are slowly getting our lives back in order, and as these things always are, it is up one day and down the next. Like any family that suffers these dreadful events, we are exhausted, ragged and leaning on each other to get by. Her children are crazy brave and hurt and devastated. No matter what, you are never ready for these things...even when you know they are coming.
I wanted to post because I have been MIA for a few weeks and this short month is slipping away quickly. I am blessed to have friends who are helping out here and bringing food and offering rides and such-- not that I have been out yet. But as time ekes on I feel better and am healing and will soon be up and running full speed ahead! The farm store flyer came out with the sales beginning on seed potatoes and onion sets and the baby chicks are in the stores. lol Spring is coming and before you know it, we'll all be up to our knees in garden work. I am so ready...this has been a rough year. I am ready for the new start that spring will bring. The pantry is beginning to look a little bare, the lilies are starting to pop through the snow and the promise of a new beginning is in the buds of the fruit trees.
Time for me and walker to head back to the other end of the house. lol Stay tuned for the saga of old Annie and her new knees... the upcoming conference...gardens and canning and more.,
Namaste.
10 comments:
Sending you love and strength my dearest friend. Rest well and I hope the bruises fade soon
Glad you finally got that knee done, so now you can look forward to much less pain! Here's hoping you heal up fast, Annie. :-)
Glad you are healing well, may it continue. I'm so sorry for your loss of your sister. You really have had a very rough year.
Glad your 2nd knee replacement went well. No more knee pains.
Hopefully there will be more posts.
You got it a little bit wrong: Now it's the NEW Annie with the OLD knees(that are gone, gone, gone)! Spring will be like the start of a new year for you.
You have my condolences on the loss of your sister. No, it is never easy even when we think we are "prepared" by knowing it will happen. A death changes so much within (and outside of) a family. Sending healing thoughts.
Thank you Mary...I am doing remarkably well and the bruises ARE fading. There is an interesting psychological dynamic at work here, knowing how much better I feel already and that there are no more than 2 knees to a body. lol Much love shooting across the continents to you xoxoxo
Thanks DJan... have watched my friend struggling with her replacement, which she waited abut 6 years to do after the first one..and thinking I made the right choice. lol It has been kind of a wham!-Bam! thing to do these 5 months apart, but I'm glad I did it.
Celia, it has been a year to remember, that's for sure. Looking forward to a less dramatic year..if that happens at our age. lol Thank you for your condolences..everyone has been so kind...
DDD...hopefully there will be, lol Hopefully I can concentrate a little better on most things in my life and that all the chaos and clutter of so many areas of my life will fall away. I feel like a nameless entity has been following behind and in front of me and disrupting so much. Does that make any sense at all ?
Thank you Mama Pea--you are so right. Today is 15 days since her transition and it feels like months already. So much change. I hope that I can keep up with the new Annie and her new new knees. lol Already the pain is different every day and becoming more and more ...discomfort. And I feel different.. not sure I can quite put my finger on it yet. Almost as though my own paradigm is shifting, subtly.
Not a bad thing at all.
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