Today is Friday and I wake up this morning in hospital again, but feel pretty well rested considering the cocktail of Ambien and Percocet they gave me at about 11:00pm. I wake up feeling pretty good and the nurse comes in to change my banagages and dressings. While diassembling my knee wrappings I shoot a picture so I can remember how deformed it looked, unfortunately it appears the IceMan has been leaking a little, so while the locate a new bladder for me, the rewrap my knee and I sit and wait...and did I wait. It was about 3.5 hours before they brought the replacement piece for me. So I've lost that much of the anti-swelling therapy as well as the time in the CPM machine. Without the Iceman the CPM machine would be unbearable.
Once they got me put back together and into the relative comfort of the cpm I was relased to go home. The ride hom was nothing short of eventful, starting with cramming me into the front seat of Suzanne's Grand Am. I got into the house without any issue, but several times lost my balance and felt as if I was going to tumble, My biggest scar yetr came after waking up from a 40 minute nap to get up and go to the bathroom, I was standing the next thing I knew i felt like I was falling...i was able to catch my balance, but to this point unsure if i put any weight down on the bad leg. Scared and freaked out i sit on the couch..trying to relax and let the pain meds take hold of me. I've not eaten much..which I fear is one the reasons I keep loosing my balance.
Today the pain is about 8 out 10.
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