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SoHappyNow
♀ 8923
Member # 8923 |  Posted: 4:22 PM, March 26th (Wednesday), 2014 |     |
But, I'm telling y'all now. I just had a total knee replacement of my left knee today. Surgery started about 5 hours ago and I am up in my hospital room now. I have chased my husband out for the day - he has had nothing to eat yet - and am now amusing myself on my tablet.
They fussed at me in recovery for moving my knee too much. I was sliding my foot toward my butt, waving bye bye with both feet and lifting feet up with a straight knee.
I'm supposed to only eat soup this evening, but I plan to talk the nurse into solid food, since I have a cast iron stomach. Once I ate a really gooey pizza and went across the path from the restaurant to ride a roller coaster which kept me upside down for a good portion of the ride, and whipped me around good for the rest of the time. My stomach was just peachy keen.
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer..Albert Camus
***Used to be hit-by-a-train***
Remarried 2/14/14
Posts: 2311 | Registered: Nov 2005 | From: USA |
SoHappyNow
♀ 8923
Member # 8923 | | Posted: 8:59 PM, March 26th (Wednesday), 2014 | |
No comments? {slight pouty face}
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer..Albert Camus
***Used to be hit-by-a-train***
Remarried 2/14/14
Posts: 2311 | Registered: Nov 2005 | From: USA |
MovingUpward
♂ 14866
Member # 14866 | | Posted: 9:33 PM, March 26th (Wednesday), 2014 | |
So how are you doing this evening? Did you attempt solid food? How is the pain?
I hope you recover quickly.
AKA Moo
Think of the haters in your life as sandpaper; they’ll scratch you up time and time again but in the end you’re polished, smooth, and spotless..while they end up useless
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Posts: 53722 | Registered: Jun 2007 | From: Big Blue Nation |
jo2love
♀ 31528
Member # 31528 | | Posted: 9:49 PM, March 26th (Wednesday), 2014 | |
(((hit)))
I hope you feel better and recovery quickly. Sending mojo and good thoughts.
Posts: 37500 | Registered: Mar 2011 |
Rainbows
♀ 39362
Member # 39362 | | Posted: 9:58 PM, March 26th (Wednesday), 2014 | |
(((hit-by-a-train)))
Hope you have a speedy recovery and are up and about soon!
Maybe you can talk the nurse into sneaking some yummy snacks. 
There is always a rainbow after every storm.
Posts: 415 | Registered: May 2013 | From: California |
heartbroken_kk
♀ 22722
Member # 22722 | | Posted: 10:00 PM, March 26th (Wednesday), 2014 | |
We know you are fine!!!!!
tough lady. Hope they are bringing you all the yummy post-surgery sustenance you can stomach!
(hbat)
BW then 46, STBXWHNPDPAFTG the destroyer of my entire life.
D-Day 1 1999, D-Day 2,3,4,5,6... 2009 thru 2011.
Separated, divorcing, moving on.
I edit because I always make typos.
Posts: 1293 | Registered: Feb 2009 | From: California |
Jrazz
♀ 31349
Member # 31349 | | Posted: 10:10 PM, March 26th (Wednesday), 2014 | |
Wow. I would have lobbed that pizza back so fast...
I'm glad you're doing better. Sending good thoughts for a quick recovery.
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." -Dr. B. Rieux
Posts: 19142 | Registered: Feb 2011 | From: California |
thebighurt
♀ 34722
Member # 34722 | | Posted: 11:11 PM, March 26th (Wednesday), 2014 | |
Hope the good news continues and you amaze them all. If anything, it sounds like your problem with it might be wearing it out too fast! 
Finding what life could have been....... Why didn't I see it?
Posts: 2700 | Registered: Feb 2012 | From: the Other Side |
TrustNoOne
♀ 16591
Member # 16591 | | Posted: 11:26 PM, March 26th (Wednesday), 2014 | |
I think the pain meds are working effectively :D
Posts: 1328 | Registered: Oct 2007 | From: SoCal |
little turtle
♀ 15584
Member # 15584 | | Posted: 9:00 AM, March 27th (Thursday), 2014 | |
Hope you have a speedy recovery!!
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Posts: 4267 | Registered: Aug 2007 | From: michigan |
SoHappyNow
♀ 8923
Member # 8923 | | Posted: 9:23 AM, March 27th (Thursday), 2014 | |
TrustnoOne......I am getting some GOOD drugs!
I had solid food last night- very tasty - with no problems! And I took my first walk this morning which went quite smoothly with manageable pain (the physical therapist was telling the physicians assistant to my surgeon "The femoral block has worn off and look how well she's doing!"
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer..Albert Camus
***Used to be hit-by-a-train***
Remarried 2/14/14
Posts: 2311 | Registered: Nov 2005 | From: USA |
InnerLight
♀ 19946
Member # 19946 | | Posted: 9:24 AM, March 27th (Thursday), 2014 | |
Ouch!
I hope you recover fast and well!
BS, now age 54, d-day 6-2-08, divorced after 17 years M and 20 together. In some ways I have not 'gotten over it'. But I am resilient and have created a good life where I am mostly happy.
Posts: 6023 | Registered: Jun 2008 | From: Rural California |
InnerLight
♀ 19946
Member # 19946 | | Posted: 9:25 AM, March 27th (Thursday), 2014 | |
Ouch!
I hope you recover fast and well!
BS, now age 54, d-day 6-2-08, divorced after 17 years M and 20 together. In some ways I have not 'gotten over it'. But I am resilient and have created a good life where I am mostly happy.
Posts: 6023 | Registered: Jun 2008 | From: Rural California |
better4me
♀ 30341
Member # 30341 | | Posted: 12:24 PM, March 27th (Thursday), 2014 | |
you are a trooper extraordinaire!
DDay 11/17/2010 BW:53
Divorced
Posts: 3269 | Registered: Dec 2010 | From: Iowa |
Threnody
♀ 1558
Member # 1558 | | Posted: 4:08 PM, March 27th (Thursday), 2014 | |
I make it a point to piss my nurses off. Okay, not really. It just kind of happens. I don't take the full (or any) pain dose and I get up and move around as soon as possible (i.e., taking a shower within 10 hours of a C-section... twice. I'm really good at showering with my arm sticking out so I don't get the IV wet.)
I hope you're doing well, and I hope you got the solid food you wanted. That was the best part for me -- I could get rice pudding or grits without having to make it, and I could order double! "Gee, I usually get a salad, but since you want me to eat softer foods..."
You'll be doing high kicks in no time with that new knee.
“If you don't like my opinion of you, you can always improve.” ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
"Great love requires determination." ~ tryingtwo
"Don't try to win over the haters, you're not the jackass whisperer." ~ Brene Brown
Posts: 14040 | Registered: Jun 2003 | From: Middle-of-Diddly, TX |
BAB61
♀ 41181
Member # 41181 | | Posted: 12:54 AM, March 28th (Friday), 2014 | |
Great job! I had a hip replacement 11 Mar, I woke up in recovery doing foot pumps! lol I posted a pic in Fun & Games 2014 pic thread of me in hospital!
Boss A** B*tch
BS/52 Me, STBXpos/56, dd's 16&14
1st D-day 10/19/2013 EA/PA
2nd D-day 12/7/2013 LTA/Rendezvous
S 12/7/2013 No-fault state, 6 mo S, counting down the days.
Posts: 1271 | Registered: Oct 2013 | From: DE |
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