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Well, that was a waste of a day. Kept-- not waking, exactly, but constantly coming to the surface all night with various twinges, when what I so wanted was a deep undisturbed sleep. Maybe I should lay off the medium strength Therabands and Pilates exercises at home. Woke for good at 10, feeling like the dog's breakfast. Took antihistamines, realized that antihistamines weren't working because I'd bought children's Benadryl, a quarter of an adult dose, so took adult Benadryl, which didn't work either, so guess I have a cold after all. Cancel my acupuncture, alas, but it was bucketing rain in an access of nostalgie d'ouragan Sandy, not a day one wants to be out and a day one wants to be in bed under several quilts.
Of course thirty minutes later the antihistamines cut in and I began to feel human again. Still have the filled sinuses and smoker's throat and hack-hack-cough, which (because I was spared them in last year's dry cold autumn) I'd totally forgotten accompany the worst leaf mold autumns.
Hospital called to set up physiotherapy app't, under the misapprehension that my surgery was last Thursday. I grow increasingly unimpressed by my surgeon's secretary. However I'm now set up for Nov. 27 and she was quite certain that I'd be mobile enough to cab down to the hospital a week after surgery while I'd been wondering if I'd even make it down stairs by then. Obviously everyone is case by case and I am ( as I was informed) a youngish knee replacement, and the contingencies they list are for worst case scenarios, 85 year olds with balance problems and atrophied muscles. But getting 'your leg may remain swollen for three to six months' and 'you will need assistance in lifting your bad leg into bed' on the one hand, and 'come and see us in a week, you'll be walking unaided after ten days' on the other, I'd really like to know what's reasonable to expect.
Of course thirty minutes later the antihistamines cut in and I began to feel human again. Still have the filled sinuses and smoker's throat and hack-hack-cough, which (because I was spared them in last year's dry cold autumn) I'd totally forgotten accompany the worst leaf mold autumns.
Hospital called to set up physiotherapy app't, under the misapprehension that my surgery was last Thursday. I grow increasingly unimpressed by my surgeon's secretary. However I'm now set up for Nov. 27 and she was quite certain that I'd be mobile enough to cab down to the hospital a week after surgery while I'd been wondering if I'd even make it down stairs by then. Obviously everyone is case by case and I am ( as I was informed) a youngish knee replacement, and the contingencies they list are for worst case scenarios, 85 year olds with balance problems and atrophied muscles. But getting 'your leg may remain swollen for three to six months' and 'you will need assistance in lifting your bad leg into bed' on the one hand, and 'come and see us in a week, you'll be walking unaided after ten days' on the other, I'd really like to know what's reasonable to expect.
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ETA elephantiasis, even.