I'm currently off work after a knee replacement so I've bought myself a drone to relieve the boredom. This morning I went to Newbiggin-by-the-Sea and got some great footage. Please take a look at my first video that I uploaded to YouTube.
I'm looking for suggestions for other places to go.
So, I play lawn and indoor bowls and I'm going to order myself a new custom set ready for the indoor season starting in September. Out of the four designs I've created I really cannot pick one!
So I thought I'd throw it out there to see which one you think looks the best.
How long does this shit go on for? I'm just under 4 weeks post op and it seems to be getting worse not better!
The more I do through the day the worse it is on a night but doing nothing through the day isn't the answer!
I'm doing all my exercises, walking unaided, doing 30 mins full rotation on the exercise bike daily with no problems. After 2 hours in bed I wake up in pain, get up ice it, walk about for a bit go back to bed, sleep for another 2 hours rinse and repeat!
Im currently day 8, I had a pretty rough surgery that took five hours due to a stubborn ACL screw that had to come out but was embedded in my Tibia.
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TBH I'm mentally and physically drained. Haven't slept for more that 2hrs in one go since the operation. Pain and swelling has been bad up until yesterday, it has started to go down now. I don't have a patella tendon which is making doing any of the exercises very challenging. My quads still aren't working.
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My extension is pretty much at zero my flexion is only at around 25/30 degrees which is worrying me somewhat.
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How long before that becomes an issue from not doing the exercises?
Well it all went a bit tits up! 😂
I'm still in hospital and have been admitted for the night, I've been out of surgery for 6 hours and I haven't been up out of bed yet! My legs are still numb from the epidural.
The operation took longer than expected, I was in surgery for 5 hrs as he had to remove the screws from a previous ACL reconstruction, the problem was bone had grafted over the top of them. He got the one out he needed to but just left the other one in.
To make matters worse they are going to have to fit a catheter as I haven't had a pee since going into theatre 😔
My TKR is tomorrow! Absolutely shitting my pants but then remembered having to stop in hospital for 3 days on a morphine drip after a ACL reconstruction 25 years ago! It can't be any worse than that surely! 😕😂