devilgrrl | Entries tagged with recovery

Why is my knee so bitter tonight? I took a whole painkiller because it felt like someone hit me with a baseball bat. Actually, I know why my knee is so bitter. I've done too much on it over the last couple of days. I should know better. Tomorrow, I am calling the physical therapy place.

Bleh, what else..? I'm going to type up a belated entry about this week-end. I'm getting kind of tired, but my knee is being a beast. I just put a new Icy Hot patch on it, so maybe soon it'll stop hurting like crazy. Oh, and tonight is XFiles marathon night on TNT.

That's it. Onto the next entry.

Under a cut for the easily grossed out.

( My knee )

The birds in the trees outside our apartment have been all a-twitter today. They've also been all over the porch and generally driving me nuts today. I haven't been able to figure out why until about an hour ago. I was talking on the phone to my gramma when I saw something move in one of the trees. I thought, at first, it might have been a squirrel. It moved again. Nope, too big to be a squirrel... maybe one of our feral cats? I watched the as yet unknown creature further move down the tree. Suddenly, it hit me.

"Oh my god," I say to my grandmother. "I know why the birds have been so nuts today! There's a raccoon in the tree!"

Sure enough, it was a fairly small (around 10lbs.) raccoon-- probably one of the babies we saw when we first moved in here. It watched us for a little bit before fully getting out of the tree and waddling across the parking lot to go back into the park behind our complex. At least I have interesting things to watch outside.

As for the knee, I'm now 9 days post-op. Things are progressing, but really damned slowly. There's still a fair amount of swelling in and around the joint, it's still fairly painful, especially at night, and sweet jesus, does it fucking itch! I've been assured that this is all normal. It also looks like whoever wrote my post-op instructions wrote them for a straightforward knee scope, rather than what I had, which is essentially full on knee surgery, with fewer cuts. At least my foot's not swollen anymore.

Steven's bringing me home cheesecake. Yay for Steven!

I am not very interesting right now, mainly because I am sleeping a ton (10 hours a night, with a 2-odd hour nap in the evening) and not really going anywhere. Anyhow... on to the knee updates.

The itching has set in. I know that means it's healing, but it's so fucking frustrating. The skin in the outside of my knee is still numb to the touch, so itching does nothing, at all. Steven also took the fork I was using to get some relief away. Damn him.

I did, finally, however, cajole him into sex. I've wanted it since Wednesday morning and he's been putting me off because he was afraid of hurting the knee. I think the knee would have been fine, no matter what. I was more afraid my kitty would fall off or something in the interim. It has literally been more than two years, I think, since we've gone more than three days without sex.

( And here's some TMI... )

I started putting a little weight on my leg this evening while using the crutches. It hurts like hell and feels like the whole thing is going to fall in. I can only imagine this is what having a pegleg would be like. Arrrrrr!

My leg also had a huge spasm this morning that hurt like hell. I don't know if that's normal or not. I've been following the exercises he gave me, so I guess it's probably a side effect or something. The stretching alternatively feels great and really shitty. Right now, it's aching like hell from the dampness, though.

I think things will be a lot better when some more of the swelling goes down. I honestly think that's where a lot of the residual pain is coming from.

I'm super tired all of a sudden. We've been watching Cirque du Soliel all day and it puts me in this really groggy trance. Bleh.

I got to take a shower today. I never realized just how damned important showering was until I couldn't do it for, like, 48 hours. I probably would have killed someone if I wasn't allowed to shower today. I felt so gross and itchy.

Anyhow, since I'm semi-coherant, I might as well update on the condition of the knee. It hurts way the fuck more than it did yesterday or Tuesday. I woke up in the middle of the night last night and thought I was going to throw up because it hurt so bad. What's really scary is that not all of the anaesthetic the doctor pumped into my knee is worn off. I still have huge numb patches. It's swollen like crazy, along with my lower leg and foot, and I can't move it at all. It doesn't even feel like part of my body. It's the wierdest feeling.

I never threw up from the anaesthesia, but I've had to pee a million and a half times. Steven said I got up something like 10 times last night. My grampa said the same thing happens to him after anaesthesia, too. It still beats vomiting, though.

I have no appetite, really, still. I've been living on soup, KFC mashed potatoes, and saltines... mostly saltines. I'm still sleeping a ton (so is Steven because I keep him up at night with my potty trips and attempts to find a comfortable position to sleep in). I'm already bored, even though I don't really feel like doing anything, except for showering. I'm almost done reading my second of 4 "women's mags". I'm trying to convince Steven to rent the second Bridget Jones' Diary tomorrow. My attention spans sucks.

Oh, and I hate Polar diet Ginger Ale. So gross.

I'm falling back asleep, but I wanted to get in a quick update. I'm home from the hospital around 2:15. The surgery went well. From what Steven saw (there are pictures and if I can get, oh, will I post 'em.), my plica was rolled up over my kneecap. Steven described it what happens when you try to roll out too sticky pie dough and it ends up all over your rolling pin. I guess there was a lot to remove and reshape. Steven told me that it looked like two different knees.

I'm going back to sleep now. Anyone who wants our address or anything can get in touch with Steven on AIM : Stubnachen or Yahoo!: steven_shuman. Or leave a comment and I'll get it to you guys.

Thanks for all the prayers and stuff. Xoxoxo

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Doesn't make a lot of sense, does it?

You should hear the way my brain works sometimes.

Bleh..

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