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Dressing removed & all revealed!😟

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glenda29798
glenda29798

Just persuaded my daughter to remove my dressing for the first time since I returned home and apply a new one (discharged on 21st April) and asked her to photograph my poor old battered knee and so here it is! (Hope you've eaten!)

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  • Cass73
    Cass73 glenda29798

    Posted

    I have a scar you can barely see.  Use Mederma or other skin healing lotion regularly, and if you have any staple marks that are indented, work at them gently but often.  Mine smoothed out beautifully.  Your scar looks Google.
  • jackie66659
    jackie66659 glenda29798

    Posted

    I had my op 8th April, had my staples removed Friday 29th all brilliant 
    • Oldfatguy1
      Oldfatguy1 jackie66659

      Posted

      With a leg like that you'll be back dancing in the chorous line at the follies by summer. Looks like it was done by a master seamstress
    • anne07663
      anne07663 jackie66659

      Posted

      How long after your stitches out did you take this picture, Jackie? Very neat. 
  • Damy
    Damy glenda29798

    Posted

    Hi Glenda,

    glad to hear ur doing well. Leg looks good, I never had staples, so didn't have to go through the taking of them out. All the protocols r so different. But URS does look good, no t oozing or bleeding. 

    How r u feeling otherwise?

    • glenda29798
      glenda29798 Damy

      Posted

      Morning! Not too bad thank you! This time around although my knee looks as swollen I feel much more positive and more relaxed about it! I also feel very relieved that it's all over now as I was SO stressed about having my other knee replaced as my memories of the 2014 had not faded enough and mentally I really just wasn't ready but I very reluctantly went ahead and now I'm happy that it's "done & dusted" apart from the long haul to recovery!😷
    • glenda29798
      glenda29798 Damy

      Posted

      Sorry for the delay in responding-must be the drugs! Not feeling as bad as I did with my first TKR, possibly due to this time regularly taking the painkillers, or perhaps it's going to be easier this time around-fingers crossed! The swelling is as bad as before and I have usual lack of sleep etc but this time round I was prepared for that and try and doze during the day!

      The clips will be removed this Saturday, then I hope that I might feel more comfortable when I try and bend it! I also have a hydrotherapy session booked at the hospital which I really enjoy and find very helpful to exercise in.

    • mary7663
      mary7663 glenda29798

      Posted

      You're very lucky to have found hydrotherapy.....it just makes so much sense to me after the scabbing is gone, of course.  
    • glenda29798
      glenda29798 mary7663

      Posted

      I was actually given my first session in the hydrotherapy pool before I left the hospital last Thursday, so operation on 18th & into their pool on the 21st!

      They put large waterproof adhesive dressings on and in you go! Mind you, it's far from like dipping into the public swimming pool down my road as their infection rate is apparently Zero!

    • Damy
      Damy glenda29798

      Posted

      So glad ur doing better this time round. That is very interesting about getting in the pool so early. Good for you. Ur not even 10 days out and ur getting out of the house! I'm impressed.

      keep up the good work, and it's great to hear from you.

      i literally, forced myself to go to my exercise class today. I always feel mentally better afterwards. I find that I can baby myself sometimes and ,at around. THIS IS NOT GOOD! So up and out I went , then errands, car wash & vacuum, and now straightening up the house. 

      My biggest concern at the moment is my other knee. If I do have to have it done, I will do it in December like last year. I'll consider the recoup a vacation!! Trying to have a good attitude😃 Good luck w/ clip removal.

    • glenda29798
      glenda29798 Damy

      Posted

      Hi!

      To be honest with you with my first TKR it was only my weekly Saturday (my husband used to drive me the 12 miles there)hydrotherapy, then dry land physio sessions that kept me going as by the end of each week I was really depressed and felt very alone. After the sessions, the advice and being able to chat to other TKR recipients I felt really " buoyed up" and ready to face another week.😄 It's hard to keep motivated so I do understand😄

      Looking forward to getting rid of the clips as it might help the dreaded bend!

    • Damy
      Damy glenda29798

      Posted

      Yes, it's amazing how much the interaction w/other TKR helps. And also the socializing. That's why this forum is so helpful.😍
  • william54660
    william54660 glenda29798

    Posted

    Hi i hurt my knee a week ago iwas draged down the hill buy a trailer 100mtrs i dislocted my knee and tonight i went to move and bend my knee and all was well till my leg went to much my foot tuched my bum and oooo wow the pain in my knee it locked and screemed the house down in the worst pain doctors says its all ok but i dont thinkso all they did was xrays worst pain ever what u think i have burning in my knee nowb
  • jean68068
    jean68068 glenda29798

    Posted

    Your incision looks like it's healing very well!  It looks much like mine before staples were removed.  My son said it looked like a centipede on my leg lol. Hope you have a great recovery!
    • glenda29798
      glenda29798 jean68068

      Posted

      Thanks! Staples have just been removed today and the nurse explained that they apply steri strips as a matter of course and then cover the area a again in case there's any bleeding from where the clips have been removed. I was told that I can remove the covering on Sunday and shower as normal. When the area is completely healed I can apply my Bio oil😄
    • Damy
      Damy glenda29798

      Posted

      Glad to hear that u seem to be doing pretty well.😄 Hope it continues
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