How are you doing, RAFH?
Doing.
Getting better all the time.
Though at times it's difficult to tell.
Left knee, the first one they did, is doing good. A little pain or weakness from time to time but generally good. Which is a huge improvement over having the "other knee" being in as much pain and as little use as the one being fixed.
The one being fixed now, the right knee, is hurting. 2 x 5mg Oxy @ 4" hours just breaks the edge.
The Girl and I played a bit of a trick on my daughter. Daughter works up near where we live, so I'd have a ride up that way in the morning and back again in the afternoon. Little to no extra driving gets me and the Girl a visit. But I planned it so I'd end up staying overnight and ride back with my daughter the next day. A much longer visit. Didn't do much, just hung out and played with Tinker, slept some, talked. It was great. Probably a bit early for such tricks, but ... ...
So I think we're going to do it again Tuesday. Ride up with my daughter, she drops me off, the Girl takes me to my 2 week checkup and then we have the whole day and night and part of the next day till I get a ride back with my daughter on Wednesday.
Hopefully I get my staples out on Tuesday morning. They look gruesome and the image of them coming out is nasty but it turns out there's little to no pain and within minutes the whole knee relaxes and feels much better. Much, much better.
I did use the TSO or ESO cannabis oils while at the Girl's. Very helpful. Good pain relief (not all by any means) and excellent distraction from just about anything. Long lasting too.
Had a bunch of guff from the local pharmacy about refilling my prescription. Well, not refilling the one from the hospital, it was, as it should be, non-refillable. But the doctor had sent the pharmacy a new prescription and the pharmacist had a serious of ever weaker stories as to why he couldn't fill it. Started out it was too soon. I couldn't have that much Oxy in that short of time. I told him that was the doctor's decision, not his. He's not empowered to interpret the doctor's prescriptions. Then it changed to the insurance company wouldn't authorize the medications. Reasons. Finally, he relented but I had to pay cash. I'm taking it up with the Insurance. I have other issues with them and the various doctors, nurses, hospitals and pharmacies. And they seem interested in dealing with them. They are getting me set up with a new Primary Care consisting of an office with 4 doctors and staff, been there for years, not looking to change but are looking for new clients. As opposed to the one I have now with which I've had 8 or 9 difference PCGs (or whatever they are called) in about 32 months. Two of which I've never met. Three of which I've met once only. The other three have been good for the most part and one, the first one, was really good. Still, three decent doctors in less than three years is really not appropriate. So if I'm going to clean house, might as well do it all.
Otherwise, this one is going better than the first. For one thing I know what's coming, so a lot less anxiety. And it's just going better. Virtually no weeping from the incision, no really bad swelling. And I know better how to deal with hospital employees. Give them a chance to do what they are supposed to do, like hook me up to the CPM machine every 4 hours and increase the angle by 5 degrees. This is a machine they strap your leg into and it moves continuously in an elliptical arc, supposed to loosen up the knee. But they couldn't get it to work on a reliable basis, wouldn't go get another, didn't come when I called, etc. Or bringing me my pain meds on time. They get a chance to get it right on their own, they get a second chance once I remind them and then I call for the charge nurse and if she's not effective, call for the chief nurse or the administrator in charge of client relations. Plus I know the various exercises so I do those as I can. Actually made it up the stairs Tuesday night. And back down again, in full control.
Getting old quickly. But that's to be expected. Just glad I only have two knees.