I Have My Appointment

Sorry you are having medical issues and hope things go well with all of that @just4him

I'm good! Taking off tomorrow. So happy about that.

That is quite a wait for you to get your surgery done. I hope all goes well for you. I am heading to bed soon. Lately I get about 7 hours of sleep and I manage just fine with that. Anything less and my muscles tighten and I am a bear.

Sounds like something is going on. I haven't been able to catch up on everyone's posts lately so I don't know what is going on with you. Hope to soon. Good luck on whatever is a foot.

June 21 is probably good since sometimes Doctors take months to get something done.

I pray that your surgery goes well and that you can still do the things you want to do. I never really get regular sleep...maybe a few hours here and there.

Hope you had a good sleep.. It's Friday evening here

I am glad that you have your appointments, most people have good results from knee replacements.

Marsha had a knee replacement at the end of February and she has almost fully recovered now. I hope you can participate.

The worst thing is waiting - if one could schedule someone for 'immediately' it would make life easier.

part two Also, they get you up the same day if possible. At our hospital if the patients pain wasn't too bad they'd have them walk the halls a little bit. I wasn't able to do that not because I had too much pain, but I was dizzy from the pain pills which maybe I didn't even need, but didn't know it at that time. My surgery was on a Monday early and both Tuesday and Wednesday, in the morning and the afternoon we had knee camp where we practiced the six exercises we would be doing at home several times per day. By that Friday the same week, I was already going to Physical Therapy, but my husband had to drive me there. You should be able to do whatever is going on to promote your book unless it's the same week as your surgery. If you have help, you should be able to walk around with the walker. I have some exercised I received that I've shared with a few people here. If you're interested, you can pm me your email.

Maybe your surgeon won't be quite as busy as mine was. I made my appointment in July of last summer but they couldn't get me in until October and the surgery was another three months from then at the end of February. I'm guessing that the amount of time between when you called to make the appointment and when you actually have the appointment would possibly be about the same length of time as between the appointment and the surgery. Hopefully he's not as busy as they are around here. In our area the we had to attend a meeting at the hospital to learn what to expect. There they gave us a booklet with exercises to begin before surgery and they would also continue after surgery. I firmly believe that if the patient does those both before and after the recovery should be much easier. Will you have any kind of help at home after the surgery? You'll probably need to don the TED hose like I wore, I think they do that almost everywhere in the US. I was able to get mine on although I've had practice as I wear support hosier for my bad veins. I don't believe I had any post-surgery pain, although my knee did ache quite a bit. It was totally different than the pain I had the last couple of years. Most of the people I've talked with said that if they didn't do the exercises then the results were slower and they didn't gain full use of the knee. I didn't realize that your knees are bed too. Will you eventually need both of them done, Valerie?

Good doctors are always busy. At least you have the appointment and can schedule surgery to suit you. I hope it works out to your advantage.

Sorry that you might miss Art Street this year , but your health is more important at this point.

If this is for your own good might as well bear it until you have become better @just4him maybe you need a plant to help you sleep better. I would recommend the snake plant.

Well at least you have a date for it. And its not too far away. Hope you can donall you had planned though.

Everything will be ok. Don't worry. Don't feel tensed. We are all with you. God is great. You will again come back and post many discussions.

So far I'm doing good. Thanks for asking.