Well here i am two weeks, nearly three, after the op. I have had the staples out and the dressings off. I have done my exercises and can bend and straighten my new knee. Sounds fantastic doesn't it?
This is how it happened
Monday - i went into Cannock Hospital at 10am - well 9.30 because i needed some last minute xrays - reported to the ward and everything was smoothly handled from then on. My details were checked, including blood pressure and temp and blood tests. My notes brought up to date I had an identity tag on my wrist and a Hospital gown under my dressing gown and J and i chatted in between the nurses and getting to know the other women on the ward.
K and the children came and took J off for lunch and i walked through to the aneasthetic room with a nurse. I sat on the edge of the trolley and they gave me a spinal block (not very comfortable probably due to my not sticking my spine out enough). In the operating theatre i was given some light aneasthetic and some fluid in a drip. Although i heard almost all of what went on, and even had a conversation with the aneasthetist about family and looked at photo's of her children, it was a little unreal.
I was taken through to the post op room, JT had a word as i was pushed past and he told me it had gone well, no complications.
It was hard to sleep that night because the other woman in the room had had a full general and when she wasn't snoring she was shouting and making a lot of noise. The nurses brought me pain relief and water and eventually tea. They offered toast but i wasn't hungry. I did drink all the water and tea offered though.
Te embarrassing thing was that the spinal block meant i couldn't tell when i needed to wee and i wet the bed (twice) so i was relieved when they put a catheter in.
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