August 23 I had the right knee replaced by the same doctor in the same hospital.,
What a difference in just five months. Every thing was pretty much the same up until I went into the surgery prep room. In the prep room I was given a bottle of some thing brown and nasty along with 4 one ended Q tips. I had to swap my nostrils 30 seconds with each Q tips , worried about mersa they are. Once that was all finished I was wheeled to the heavy presurgery room for the spinal tap and such. This time I was not put out I could hear them talking grinding and pounding with a hammer. Could have seen what they were doing but they did a small curtain to I couldn't.
Last time when I came out of surgery I felt fine but not this time, I had this nagging, Want to PUKE my guts feeling from the get go, And did just that after I ate some lunch 3 hours latter. You Know tums, Maalox and a injection of a anti nausea med was injected in the IV line. Still had that nagging in the pit of my tummy and just after they fed me some supper I puked again big time.
Still had that nagging feeling after that too and got another IV injection, wasn't helping that deep in the gut want to PUKE feeling.
Daughter I love you very much and thank you for sharing how you calmed your tummy after the many rounds of Chemo. I asked for saltine crackers and was given a good size stack of them and Some ginger ale. That calmed my tummy down real quick.
The other problem that was different what PEEING. I couldn't despite the urge I mean a constant urge where I could get a few drops out then nothing. That continues for 12 hours with no change. Finally after 19 hours the flood gates opened and I peed and peed as fast as the aide could bring me the urinal thingy. She said when it finally finished I had released about 3/4 of a gallon.
I also got a ball, about great fruit size a little bigger how ever. in a bag with a tiny line runs under the skin to my knee and is about 5 inches long the doctor said. Is full of pain meds I was told.
27 hours after the operation the PT woman shows up, I was eating breakfast told her to come back in a half hour and I would race her down the hall.
Now I don't have much use for this air head at all. The aide had adjusted the walker so I could stand to try and PEE the day before, but this aide insisted the walker was to low and readjusted it higher by about 4 inches. I am really going down the hall and she kept saying we should stop and readjust the walker I told her NOPE not going to do that you insisted it was to short so live with how you have me. Once back in my room she had me sit in a chair and put my foot up on another chair and stay that way for almost two hours. That caused me a lot of pain and the first Norco or any pain drug I had taken orally. When the doctor got there last evening he went nuts about the chair thing And the pain it had caused. He said enough of this crap and released me to come home, Said he was going to do some thing about that PT woman and I am sure he will. I really like him a lot.
So I was told not to move today, just sit and drink water and PEE in a jug or a pail from my easy chair to try and get that knee back the where it isn't so pain full.
I had told my wife I didn't want to go to that hospital to get the second knee done because of crap from last time. But 6 miles from home one way is way shorter than 22 miles one way to the other hospital. So she won but now is dumping the pail I keep filling up.
Al
