I promised you the photo of my knee innards....and now through with my promise. My physician assistant, Christa, took this photo for me. Thank you, Christa, you did a fine job. This is a photo of my 2nd total knee replacement: the right knee this time. The bone you are looking at is my femur. The solid yellow area is cartilage (you want to have that there) ....the rough looking area is where I was walking bone on bone....OOWW! I told you it hurt! Folks called me Hobbling Hilda. Im so glad I had this done and its behind me now. And Im glad I only have two knees! Enough is enough. Thank you for supporting me through this last surgery. It truly made a good difference. My nurses, Cory and Lulu, have had to work extra hard this time around. I seem to be more needy.
This time around isnt as much fun as the first time. I think I jinxed myself by bragging that I had no pain with the first knee....but it was the truth. This knee is letting me know Ive had something done. I have much more flexibility and much less swelling than
the first knee....all good. But...the leg aches at times and I have surface soreness when I touch the skin on my knee. Its all tolerable but I liked it better when I had NO pain! So did Cory & Lulu. My PA told me ahead of time I could probably experience different experience and she was right. Rats! The doctor did a bit more with this knee than the other. Remember the cyst I had adjacent to my knee that I reminded him to remove....he did that. He also found a bone spur on my bone that he removed.....said I was probably born with it. I knew I had something there but it didnt bother me so I didnt bother it but Im glad that sucker is gone. Thanks, Doc!
Im into my fifth Physical Therapy visit. Miranda is my therapist and she is excellent. She did the work with me on my first knee. She offers understanding but makes sure I do everything I need to do to get this leg back in shape. Its like my other leg never had anything done except for the typical line scar...thanks to Miranda. My first leg
had a lot of bruising and swelling....this leg, not so much.....just more They put a big tourniquet around your thigh when they do the surgery.....it must have been on extra tight on my first leg....yikes. Look at that ecchymosis (bruise)!
I had the done when I went for my visit 2 weeks after surgery. Buddy is the tech and hes great! He got me a second Joint shirt for this leg....green color this time....great for St.Pats Day! Christa removed my stitches....the zip ties. I tried to get it as a video but messed up. So you can kind of see what she did....grabbed the top of the plastic ties and just pulled it straight down......unzipped me! No more stitches. No pain with removing these either....yippee. She removed the small one over my cyst incision. Everything is good.....now my goal is to get my leg back in order which I know will be through the physical therapy. I showed my innards photo to the therapists. They loved it! One fellow studied it and studied it. I told him I would send it to him and he could use it as his screensaver.
the saga of my knee replacements. Just know, if you hear alarms going off in an airport, it might be me.....seek me out!
Cory and I feel very fortunate and healthy. We received our second and last Moderna vaccine yesterday. We shall still use our masks out in public but we are happy to have reached this goal. We hope all of you seeking this vaccine get yours on a timely basis. We went to a different locale for this shot...but not far away. They were somewhat disorganized but no matter, we were the first in line to get our shots. The car behind us seemed to draw some attention so when it pulled up next to us in the reaction waiting area, Cory got out to see who was in the car. Cool! There were two of the original Harlem Globetrotters in the car. They both got out and posed for my photos. Cory used a few of his old basketball moves around them.
