Catching Up

I should have kept this up to date, after all it was supposed to be a before and after.

It is now the middle of September and i had the operation on the 9th July. In that time i have gone from feeling as though i had a lump of meat and not a leg to feeling that there is something not right, not real, about the leg, but no where near the pain i had with the arthritis already.

I can get in and out of the bath for a shower, clean the kitchen, even hang the washing out but i cannot yet get up the stairs. The fault is with my arthritic knee and not my bionic one. Because of the pain the un-operated knee i am unable to progress much further. I am signed off by the physio. He has given me an exercise to do to enable me to get up the stairs. It is probably going to take a couple of weeks. Boring.

This should be my last week on sick leave. With luck i will be signed back on to work so that on Monday i can start back part time.

I have come a long way from that first day. I can still remember how it felt though to get out of bed that first day so i will never take my new knee for granted.