One Week Out
March 31, 2022
One week out from my TKR (total knee replacement) and things are moving along.
After a few days on full strength narcotic pain killers I decided again yesterday to wean myself back to Tylenol. Frankly, I was beginning to feel depressed by the constant “fuzziness” and lethargic, sleepy feeling. Have been on Tylenol now since yesterday afternoon without noticing any loss of pain management and my mind is much clearer and I’m not so sleepy! I think I may have also stopped talking in my sleep and that’s a good thing since I didn’t want to have to explain anything that I might have said for which I was not responsible for saying!
Today I was feeling pretty smug since I had noticed considerable improvement in my ability to perform the 5 exercises without much difficulty. To reward me, my Pain and Torture nurse added three more today and promised two more on Wednesday. These have managed to quickly wipe the smug smile off my face. I’m beginning to remember the tendency to collect so many exercises with 10 reps/3 times a day that I spent the whole day going from one exercise to the next with hardly a break!!!
My biggest challenge right now is the gas. I’m belching like the champion at a redneck belchers competition and at the same time I’m emitting fumes from the other end! Between the two I think, if I could collect it, I might fill several of those Mylar party balloons and brighten someone’s birthday celebration! On the other hand, I might be under investigation by the Environmental Protection Agency since the government has nothing else in mind to do of any importance. In all it contributes to a very bloated and full feeling that is uncomfortable. That is accompanied by a symphony of noises issuing from my abdomen and other parts of my body. People don’t want to be around me lest I explode or cause and explosion.
I was short and impatient with my girlfriend today and regretted it almost immediately. All of this has made me a little grumpy and I apologized to her. Her response, “You are just a grumpy old man,” — OUCH!
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