Post-surgery

[flemmings]

This honeymoon period before the nerve block wears off is really very pleasant. I can bend my knee and do my exercises without pain for the first time since... well, since I started doing them four months ago. Am assured that agony will commence eventually but the nurse who just came by said they'd proactively start me on pain killers. Am sharing a room with three quiet people (and not like the guy swearing down the hallway). Even the food was quite edible. So not bad at all.

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[rushthatspeaks]

Glad to hear it!

[flemmings]

Thanks.

[anna_wing]

So glad that it seems to have gone well. I hope that you recover quickly.

[flemmings]

It's a voyage of discovery for sure. Knee doesn't care that it's been sliced open but muscles all round it protest mightily.

[anna_wing]

Yes indeed! In normal circumstances, bone gets on with healing in a fairly unfussy way, once everything has been winched back into the proper configuration (I have a chunk of titanium permanently in one arm now, that's how I know). Soft tissue, on the other hand, takes a very long time and a lot of work to get back to anything like pre-injury/operation function.

[flemmings]

Oh dear. What happened to your arm, if I may ask? Break or replacement?

[anna_wing]

Break. Slipped on an algae-covered concrete path while going out to retrieve the cat from the rain (a madly furry specimen of more hair than wit, who normally didn't notice he was getting wet until he was soaked through). Bone vs concrete, concrete wins...

[flemmings]

Owie. Must have been a really bad break, then, if it needed titanium to handle it.

[anna_wing]

Indeed. Based on the initial X-ray, it was a fairly dramatic break. Watching it heal itself over subequent visits to the surgeon was very interesting, though.