About this blog

"New Nees"...a term used when friends have had breast enhancement. I mean you can't go around asking "how are your new boobs?" But asking about knees? Certainly. And so it was born. As a nod to its humor, I use it here where it really does mean "new knees".

When I decided to have bilateral knee replacement, I started searching the world wide web hoping to find other blogs on how people have prepared and gotten through the recovery, physical therapy, and their end result. I found one really good blog which I will link to (Random Thoughts from Midlife), but the very few others I found were only about one knee.

So I am starting this blog, so that if someone else ever needs to go where I am going, they will have an idea about the journey on this road "less traveled".

Sunday, March 30, 2014

5 days post op

My apologies for not keeping this up more...pain meds do wierd things and you should have seen some of the things I wrote...once I reread them, I just couldn't post them...although they would have make for great humor!

Pain management is good here at the new rehab.  There is still pain and short of being unconscious I don't know what will relieve it. The staff still have to transfer my legs in and out of bed, a real frustration to me; and it just  hurts like a sumavitch to bend my knees. I think today I will try more ice packs.

I am on day 3 of full rehab/PT and I want to cry when I anticipate going to PT.   I think I am reach a "Val is tired, frustrated, etc." wall. A wall that might be perfectly normal.

Good news...no staples just internal stitching and dermabond. But damn it sure feels like staples when I bend my knees...lol.
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