A new start.

My knees look OK but they are shot.

These are my knees today, healing well so now it is just a matter of time when I will be back to normal. I think this will be the last time I do a report about my knees it's all over now done and dusted.
I will say just one more thing, in the photo I am stood with my ankles and knees together, nothing special about that except for one thing, I have been bow legged for as long as I can remember and now they are straight! I think I might be an inch or two taller now.

Back online.

I have not touched the computer since the 27th April it is upstairs and I am downstairs.
Today I ventured upstairs for a shower it was fantastic, I have been getting a strip down wash top and tailing, took me back to when I was a kid before we had a bathroom. In those days it was the tin bath on the hearth once a week and a strip wash the rest of the time, good old days I don't think so!

Wednesday 2nd May clips out.

Today is the day I've been waiting for, the removal of my clips. I have no idea how they put them in, but I will be fascinated to see how they come out.

Easy peasy, apart from anything going wrong I could have done it myself.

To be honest I am really glad that I have had them both done together I've had no pain from the actual joints, the pain has been from the bruising of the leg muscles. Now these are settling down I feel OK, I can't walk far but I'm getting there.
I have lost a lot of my appetite, resulting in me loosing 10lbs in weight in three weeks I am down to 12st 4lbs. For the US 14lbs = 1st (stone). I don't do metric I'm English. US 172 lbs that's me.

Home from Hospital the 2nd time.

On returning home I found everyone had decided that I was staying down stairs for the foreseeable future, until I am A1. My bed was at the back of the room behind the settee, commode porta potti in the hallway.

All set for life down stairs.

Knees update.

Everything was going great until 6-30pm Friday 27th then all hell broke loose. A sudden pain started up in my right leg all the way from my ankle to my hip bone, I could not move my leg one way or the other the pain was excruciating.
Una phoned 999 and asked for the Ambulance, within 10 to 15 mins the crew were by my side giving me gas and air, it did absolutely nothing for me! The put a line in the back of my hand and administered some morphine into me this did nothing for me so they gave me another shot to no effect.

Then came the fun of getting me down stairs, my leg was in so much pain and twisted there was no way I could be moved by wheelchair. We decided to strap me to a body board and get me down that way, it was like a mountain rescue, to cut a long story short I spent the next two nights in hospital pain free.

One week and a day.

It looks much worse than it is, there has been very little pain none at all from the joints. Though my legs have felt like tree trunks swelled and stiff, now they are back to size everything feels better. 

Everyday is an improvement on yesterday, though come to think of it I have the best nurse in the world I might stretch it out as long as I can.  

Knee Operation Day 4

I am now back at home. I was able to walk up a flight of stairs in the hospital. This showed that I was fit enough to be discharged. I got back at 5pm. There's no place like home.

Knee Operation Day 3

Today I was able to walk with crutches for the first time. I walked down the corridor and back.
When Una and Steven came to visit I was able to show how I had improved in a day.

I had a surprise visit from my younger brother Joseph.

Knee Operation Day 2

Today I had the IV tube and ice packs etc removed and could see my post op knees for the first time. Everything looks okay. The nurses stood me up and I had to walk using a Zimmer Frame. It caused a little bit of bleeding in one knee, but apparently that is quite common. Una and one of my oldest friends, Tex, visited in the evening.

The Second Big Day of the week arrives

Had my knee replacement surgery today. Arrived at hospital by 7.15am. I was the first on the list for the day. I'll write a more in-depth account when I get home. Everything went well and I was back in my ward by 3pm. Una and Steven came to visit in the evening.