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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 12:52 pm
Good to hear it went well, Nancy.
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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 2:06 pm
Glad your surgery is over. Hope your recovery is quick.
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Nancy
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, August 17, 2007 - 3:00 am
thanks--i had an awful night last night. didn't sleep but maybe 1 hour and only in little bursts. my leg behind the knee is swollen but i can't get at it very well to ice what with the bandages on--i can see swelling just above the bangages so iced that but i really needs to be where the ace bandages are and the ice can't penetrate 
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Ginger1218
Member
08-31-2001
| Friday, August 17, 2007 - 4:39 am
Nancy, my first night after the surgery was a killer also, but it will get better. That was the worst time. It will be better today
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, August 17, 2007 - 6:32 am
Doing the happy dance that you are home and that the surgery went well. But it sucks that you can't ice it properly due to the bandages! 
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Nancy
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, August 17, 2007 - 8:14 am
thanks--yeah it does--i can take the bandages off tomorrow and shower (quickone) and put on regular bandages so I'm looking forward to that I cannot take a bath for 3weeks which is what I'd really Like to do!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, August 18, 2007 - 10:57 pm
Nancy, glad you are gettnig through the first days.. wish you had had the machine I had.. it was a cooler (that you filled with ice) with a pump that forced the cold water through tubes that were back and forth across a neoprin pad that was wrapped aroune my knee under the big bandage wrap.. and that ran all the time (except when I had to get out of bed.. that kept everything cool at least and swelling down. Then I had the motion machine that kept the knee extending and contraction.. Be really careful with that first shower.. I remember how good mine felt but how dicey it was.. I'm just happy they got in there and found stuff to do and reasons.. finally!!!
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Nancy
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 10:34 am
thanks sea--metoo me too! re the cooler--its funny you mentioned that. my p.therapist had showed me one online and said that my dr does not usually send people home with it but other dr/s in his group do. I think i was still to drugged up thursday to even care! My brother wasn't aware(and he's a nurse!) of it to ask. today i feel ok although the shower did me in! my lower back (sciatic) hurts and my foot feels asleep! the therapaist told me that during surgery like this that muscles go to sleep and it takes awhile to awaken them tho i know sciatic is not a muscle! I'm going to take at least Monday and tuesday off as i cannot sit long enough right now!(thank godfor laptops!) I tried to change my kittie's litter a bit ago--ahhh not happening! I managed to get some of it out tho--enough so she will use it I hope! (my brother in no shape or form will changeit) he pukes at anything LOL-- now again go figure he's a nurse but he hates smells and isn't real good at emergency family situations(i guess maybe because he knows all the possibilities of what can be wrong--but when my mom was having low blood pressure issues and would get weakened by it he would get sick! go figure!
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 9:18 am
Nancy, this is probably similar to the cooler system Sea was referring to. You can always ask your therapist if they have one they can loan, or if they can order it for you and bill your insurance. Don't ask why the picture doesn't show the tubing hooking the knee cuff to the cooler...dorks, I guess! http://www.rehabzone.com/bp/v3/11a/Aircast-Cryo-Cuff-System-Medium-Knee-&-Cooler.html
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Nancy
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, August 24, 2007 - 2:22 pm
thanks huk--that's the same thing that my therapist had showed me (only she used www.aircast.com)--i'm one week post-op now--and for the most part about the same as pre-surgery painwise except when bending my knee its excrutiating right now--haven't felt that in months--and when 12 lb cat jumped directly on it last night oooooooooooooooooooo myyyyyy 
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Nancy
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, August 24, 2007 - 3:14 pm
thanks huk--that's the same thing that my therapist had showed me (only she used www.aircast.com)--i'm one week post-op now--and for the most part about the same as pre-surgery painwise except when bending my knee its excrutiating right now--haven't felt that in months--and when 12 lb cat jumped directly on it last night oooooooooooooooooooo myyyyyy
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Nancy
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, August 31, 2007 - 11:34 am
I got my stitches out today yeah! I can start rehap/rebuilding my knee now--i can walk, bike(stationary) treadmill basically anything that won't put undo stress on it.. i will go back in 4weeks--and if all is well i can start training for my marches again! Yeah!!!!! As far as my numb foot thing while not 'normal' per-se it does happen sometimes and is supposed to take care of itself eventually!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, September 01, 2007 - 12:55 pm
Yay Nancy!!
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Nancy
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, September 02, 2007 - 12:44 pm
I could put my walks in the walk thread but umm .4 (four tenth's) doesn't add up much.. 
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, September 02, 2007 - 10:50 pm
Yeah, but you are building up. You could round up to a half mile and go from there.
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Nancy
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, September 29, 2007 - 11:04 am
quick update==six weeks update and i am doing well--i've been walking about a mile or so at least 4-5 days a week(and loosing weight in the process yeah!) I saw dr. thursday and he was pleased with his handiwork and my progress--very little swelling. I will see him in 6 more weeks--yikes one year and 1 week from original pain! numb foot has become 'my friend' lol--but it's supposed to go away eventually :-)
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Saturday, September 29, 2007 - 5:41 pm
I'm going to have to read BACK and see what happened!! I havent read here for awhile Glad to see something was done and you are back to feeling better. By the way, I was going to respond to the post where you said you were Trying to scoop the Cat Litter. I have physical problems so I've taken a piece of wood and taped it to the end of the scooper so I have a long Shovel-like scooper. you dont have to bend over so far if you have an extender on the scoop LOL I have extended my Dustpan as well. I can sweep just fine but bending way over to clean up the pile is HECK on me LOL ((I should be patenting all my disabled inventions. LOL))
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Nancy
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, September 30, 2007 - 6:47 am
lol sun i will hAVE to keep that in mind! i had some irratated synovium removed on 8/16--
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