FrenchieBoy
Well-Known Member
As many of you will remember I had to have a partial knee replacement operation 7 weeks ago (6th February). A very good friend (A member of the Stalking Directory phoned me this afternoon to ask how my knee was now and when I got home an hour or so later I found that another member had sent me a PM to ask how the knee was so I thought it was about the right time to give an update.
There were a few "complications _ Firstly I had a bleed which made the upper part of my leg swell up and turned it a nice shade of purple and then I had to go in hospital with a suspected infection. I will not go into all the details of that but every thing worked out in the end and I was able to start getting back on track with the physio (Something that is very important for anyone who has to have the same operation, it really does make all the difference).
I was on quite a lot of pain killers, mainly morphine based which were making me feel quite ill. The wife says that there was in fact one or two days that I barely said a word to her because I was sleeping all day long, my appetite was non existent and quite often I didn't know if I was coming or going. I hate taking any drugs so I went to my GP and begged her to cut down on the amount of drugs I was having to take - In particular the morphine based ones. The outcome was that she cut down on the pain killers by over 50% and quite soon I started to feel better and more myself.
I had to see my consultant last Thursday and he was fairly happy with how things were going. I explained that i was still experiencing a fair bit of pain but he said it was down to nerve damage which was to be expected after invasive surgery. He was happy with the way I could walk so he told me that I wasn't to use my crutches any more (I didn't have the heart to tell him that I hadn't been using them for more than a week) and that I should now start getting more exercise (Walking etc) so that was that.
Since then I have been out for a couple of walks on one of my permissions but I have to be quite careful at it is very hilly and quite rough ground and the last thing I want to do is to twist my knee in the middle of no-where.
I have been clay shooting a couple of times but I have found out that getting to a couple of the stands gives my knee a fair bit of jip as I have to go down a dozen or so steps. It took me a while to realise that steps and stairs make my knee swell up and a bit more painful than normal, however you live and learn I guess.
When I got a call from Scooby270 this afternoon I had been up at my local bowling green to see if my knee would take the strain of bowling as out season starts in a fortnight - As it was everything was fine even though I had to put an ice pack on it this evening because it had started to swell and feel a bit more painful than normal.
All in all I am fairly happy with the results even though it is still a bit tender. One person asked if I would have the other knee done and I had to answer honestly and say only if it was completely unavoidable. I am at least mobile and can get about with a gun as long as I take it easy so all in all no real complaints. Let's hope for a better year than last year.
Take care guys!
There were a few "complications _ Firstly I had a bleed which made the upper part of my leg swell up and turned it a nice shade of purple and then I had to go in hospital with a suspected infection. I will not go into all the details of that but every thing worked out in the end and I was able to start getting back on track with the physio (Something that is very important for anyone who has to have the same operation, it really does make all the difference).
I was on quite a lot of pain killers, mainly morphine based which were making me feel quite ill. The wife says that there was in fact one or two days that I barely said a word to her because I was sleeping all day long, my appetite was non existent and quite often I didn't know if I was coming or going. I hate taking any drugs so I went to my GP and begged her to cut down on the amount of drugs I was having to take - In particular the morphine based ones. The outcome was that she cut down on the pain killers by over 50% and quite soon I started to feel better and more myself.
I had to see my consultant last Thursday and he was fairly happy with how things were going. I explained that i was still experiencing a fair bit of pain but he said it was down to nerve damage which was to be expected after invasive surgery. He was happy with the way I could walk so he told me that I wasn't to use my crutches any more (I didn't have the heart to tell him that I hadn't been using them for more than a week) and that I should now start getting more exercise (Walking etc) so that was that.
Since then I have been out for a couple of walks on one of my permissions but I have to be quite careful at it is very hilly and quite rough ground and the last thing I want to do is to twist my knee in the middle of no-where.
I have been clay shooting a couple of times but I have found out that getting to a couple of the stands gives my knee a fair bit of jip as I have to go down a dozen or so steps. It took me a while to realise that steps and stairs make my knee swell up and a bit more painful than normal, however you live and learn I guess.
When I got a call from Scooby270 this afternoon I had been up at my local bowling green to see if my knee would take the strain of bowling as out season starts in a fortnight - As it was everything was fine even though I had to put an ice pack on it this evening because it had started to swell and feel a bit more painful than normal.
All in all I am fairly happy with the results even though it is still a bit tender. One person asked if I would have the other knee done and I had to answer honestly and say only if it was completely unavoidable. I am at least mobile and can get about with a gun as long as I take it easy so all in all no real complaints. Let's hope for a better year than last year.
Take care guys!
> to go out with you and do all the drags when you do go back stalking rather than risk your recovery atb
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. chin up boss your get back on it in no time 
plenty of water and fruit helps and so will Fleet ? if its that bad 
. i tried real hard to get off them floating around the walls drugs ASAP , only as drinking a hot brew then falling asleep mid cup was a bugger 
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, before my total knee replacement i could kick my own Rs, with the same leg i had the op on...not any more.
