It's 10:35 am and I have been awake since five am. What I have accomplished is in pathetically small increments. I wake up at 5 to take medicine for pain and go to the bathroom; then since I am awake, I put my left leg on the passive exercise machine which is up to 97 degrees of bend. After a while the pain subsides and I doze off and on with the television on for company. At 7 am I take my leg off the machine and get up.
After teeth brushing and other ablutions, I head to the kitchen to make a three mug pot of coffee and two pieces of toast which along with a yogurt will be breakfast. I balance it all back to the den along with the walker and set up my breakfast table. Joe always offers to help and I always say I've got it. I'm going to pay for that one of these mornings.
Breakfast accomplished, I turn on the computer and check my email and facebook. By now it's about 8 am and time to change the dressing on my incision. First I take off the white compression hose which is a little hard on the right knee as it doesn't bend quite enough yet. After cleaning the incision with alcohol and putting on new gauze bandages, I put clean compression hose on and get dressed. This time the hospital sent home two pairs of hose so I've really appreciated having clean ones each day. Because I don't like to put any more pressure on my knee, I've been wearing shorts and sweats which I have cut off to the length of long shorts. I don't think my daughters were very impressed with my shear work but it makes wearable some things that otherwise would just hang out in the closet. When I feel a bit better, I plan to actually hem them so I can wear them around the house and for work this spring.
By now it's 10 am, time to take pain medicine again and all the other regular meds I take. If I force down a large glass of water with the meds, there's no stomach ache. While I'm drinking the water, I decide to write in my blog. It's 10:35 am.
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