So, today the doctor told me that people need to realize that they have had surgery. No fingers pointing, of course!!
I began the day with my physiotherapist on our doorstep at 9:00 am. She brought along a student intern. I’m sure they don’t see double knee surgery every day, so this was a treat? I did the exercises I’ve been working on, but my physiotherapist pushed a little (as physio is want to do). A bit of a sore spot in the back — probably stretched a little too hard. How is that . . . ? I guess we are all one whole being made up of many parts, all interacting! And aching together!!
I enquired about how often I should plan on getting out of the house. She knew I had an appointment to remove staples this afternoon — that was a good start. After that, maybe this week one "short" out of the house experience would be enough. Don’t necessarily plan on going to church.
After seeing her, I laid down my weary bones ’til my doctor’s appointment. I had a 3/4 of an hour wait in the clinic lobby — that was pretty tough — my knees were sore and I wasn’t even walking or doing anything!
The actual removing of the staples went quickly and was fairly painless (just a few "pin pricks" was all I felt). There were around forty or fifty staples removed. Just a simple staple remover was all that was needed.
Then we headed to the hospital blood lab to check out my hemoglobin and any other thing that might need to assessed in the blood.
As we returned home — after an adventure outside of the house of only about an hour or two — I’ve decided I’m not quite ready for those "mall crawls" where you take your walker to the local mall and exercise for hours at a time. No — if I’m up and running around the house tomorrow I’ll be doing well.
My next physio is a week Wednesday. Maybe that will be soon enough to be "out and about"!!