Total Knee Replacement Surgery– Tomorrow!ARRRG!
Well, the days wittle down to a final few, as the September song says, and it’s almost here. Tomorrow at one I’ll be having my total knee replacement surgery. Rather late in the day for my taste; since I can’t eat or even drink liquids after midnight tonite, I was hoping the surgery would be at 8 am so that I wouldn’t have too long to get too hungry or thirsty before hand. I can’t imagine what I’ll be doing with myself until 11, when we leave for the hospital. Packing my little overnight bag, I guess, which will be mainly filled with my medication and makeup, plus the three novels I’m taking with me. Plus robe and nightshirt although I really don’t have slippers.
I’ve bought slip on shoes but they kill my feet even when I just wear them around in the tv room at night before bed, so I can tell they wouldn’t be any good. I need something I can slip my right foot into without really having to bend my knee too much–something that slips on easily. My new runners feel great, and I can fit my inserts into them, but the top edges fold in a bit too much, needing to be sort of pulled out around my foot once it’s pushed in. They have to have a closed back, apparently, these slippers, and have to be big enough to allow for my foot’s possibly swelling after the operation. ARRG. I guess I should get dressed and go to Alexis Nihon and look for slippers.
That’s how my brain is working; it focuses on something minor and frets about it. It still seems unreal that I’m actually putting myself through all this pain and inconvenience tomorrow. I mean, I can walk now, albeit with some pain. And the pain is going to be really bad for a while once the operation is over. I know that I’ll supposedly be pain free after everything heals, but there will be a lot of pain between now and then, and no guarantee that it will be pain free. Another act of faith, I guess, with a need for both hope and positive thinking. The problem is, it will pretty much depend on me whether or not I get full use back in my knee. I’ll be the one who has to do exercises and physical therapy, after all. And if it’s painful…..
Wish me luck, everyone. It will be a while before I get a chance to write here again.
