here i go

Well. Seven weeks on and i am walking with one stick in the house and two outside but no more crutches. Yay. I have had several showers - double Yay. I have started to cut down on my drugs in the hopes i can go back to work in a week or so. All in all a very positive progress from flat on my back OW to upright and smiling.

If i ever doubted the efficacy of this op i have fully bought into it now.


I have seen the x-ray of my knew knee.

The feeling is more discomfort than pain now. The other knee is giving me a lot of pain now.

I am managing to sleep for almost three hours now before the knee says move me or else. I manage to get off to sleep alright most nights, though there have been some where i sit for hours waiting for sleep to come, get up at least once to go to the loo and have not slept beyond 7am no matter how many times i get up or how long i listen to my stories in the night to persuade sleep to come back. Most mornings i am up just after 6. I have a good routine going of making my breakfast and wheeling it through to the sitting room. Then i feed the dogs and bring Poppy into the sitting room to eat hers to make sure she actually gets the food and doesn't bite the others. I wash up and tidy the kitchen and tidy the sitting room and have done a little gardening and even managed to hoover the other day.

Then i play with my papercrafts and get glitter everywhere.

I manage not to put the television on until lunch time because day time TV is enough to drive you to alcoholism and leave it even later if i have a good book to read on my kindle or a story to listen to on my ipod.