👯‍♀️👯‍♀️Hips and Knees part 4 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️

Mizuna take each day as it comes and as you have discovered you have been pleasantly surprised. You will soon forget the simple things like getting in and out of a car caused you pain. When Christmas comes and somebody asks about your surgery, you will say what surgery?

Lots of positive news here today. I am still waiting for a date. My consultant hasn’t been allocated any dates at all in the main theatres in August. Everything is happening in the new hub but any complications mean they won’t allow you there. 😡.
Fingers crossed for September.

It may help if you say you are available if a cancellation occurs.

Oh yes , my daughter kept ringing and reminding the hospital that I was available at short notice
I got word one day admitted the next day and home in no time

Two days of sunshine on the trot, what is going wrong? Enjoy a coffee in the garden if you have one but please elevate the leg if recently operated.

Nannytopsy it is worth phoning to see where you are on the list and mentioning cancellations. It has worked for me twice recently as well as 2 years ago when my hip hop was brought forward by a month.
Hope you hear something soon.

It’s 5 weeks now since my knee replacement and today, instead of just walking round (and round) the garden I’m going to venture onto the pavement, with my stick of course, and walk down the street and back. I tried going to our wee corner shop a couple of weeks after the op and was in agony when I got back. I think I should be fine now. How will I know if I don’t try?
After a couple of nights managing to stay in bed to sleep, last night I had to give up and come back to the recliner. My knee can’t bend sufficiently in bed. Trial and error, really.

Enjoy your walk greenmossgiel. I'm a week behind you (operation 28th June) and as impatient as ever! But I'm being careful. At the moment I'm on a bus to a town which will be less crowded with tourists and hopefully easier to walk around than where I live. My goal for this coming week is to get to my allotment, only a short bus ride and gentle walk away, to commune with my herbs and tend my pond 😁, which will do me a power of good.

Mitzuna, enjoy your walk, too. Your plan to commune with nature at your allotment sounds blissful.

I have endless swathes of herbs there so I'll just hobble through them and squeeze them!!! My idea of heaven. 😂😂

I'm sure you'll enjoy your walk greenmossgiel.

Enjoy your walks. I have driven to feed "my" cats. The owners are back tomorrow but I have had loads of cuddles from two. I am not convinced there is a 3rd as I have never seen her.

Neither knee hurts and each is at 90 degrees, it has to be the warm, dry weather.

A grand outing Charleygirl. I bet that other cat was watching you from a distance!

Totally agree Charley. The currently grumbling knee is so much more comfortable when it’s warm, as is the rest of me. Back on the so called ‘escape pain’ course tomorrow. It’s 12 sessions over 6 weeks. After last week I’ll drastically adjust how I take part and protect the rest of my body which has been very unhappy, you never know I also may also be able to stay awake in the afternoon .

It’s good to read about the progress of others after TKR. I’ve been so pleased with mine, almost 3 years on there are no problems at all. My fellow course participants have without exception been treated to horror stories by apparently well meaning acquaintances. I’m doing my best to counteract them. Such a shame to be scared away from surgery.

corner I agree these well-meaning acquaintances should keep quiet.

If the physio is causing you pain I would stop and tell this know-all youngster who sounds to me like he has been qualified for about a month. You are supposed to feel better, not worse. Pain is difficult to manage without exacerbating it innecessarily.

Made it into the bath! Week five. Glorious feeling. 😍

Wow, 🤩 that took me a lot longer and even now over 2 years later it’s still awkward, especially getting up to get out of the bath, but so far so good.
Like the toes by the way.

'Like the toes by the way.' 😂😂

Getting in the bath isn't too bad. It's getting out that's problematic!

Yes I'm still in there! Just joking.

I did a practice run beforehand and worked out how to sidle backwards and up the back of the bath until I was sitting on the (wide and safe) edge. The rest wasn't too difficult.

I turn around into a kneeling position and holding onto the sides, push myself up one leg at a time.

I'm wincing just reading this! I can't bear to kneel even on a pillow!

Aveline may I join the club? I last fell at home 2 years ago and had mega problems getting up because I could not kneel.

With you there Aveline & Charleygirl!
I haven’t been able to kneel for years, well before arthritis was diagnosed

Mitzuna, you’ve spurred me on to try for a bath! I notice that the left side of your bath is against a wall, as is mine. Which is your operated leg? Mine is the right, and I wonder if it makes a difference for transferring in and out?