Day 1. Status Update
My sleep schedule is completely erratic. Due to a number of reasons: I pulled an all nighter the night before the surgery. I'm still a night owl my 'unrestricted' my sleep schedule is 4:00 am - 11 am. Drugs. Lots of Drugs.
I woke up at 3:00 after falling asleep right after my previous day's drugs. I feel completely wide awake. I change out my water and put on some TV. The leg block is still at about 50%. Feeling is returning and I have some movement, but it still is numbed up.
I slept from about 6 am until about 10. Had 4 ibuprofens and 2 Oxycotins at 11 am. The leg block is down to 25%.
I unwrapped the bandages and removed a ton of gauze. Everytime I changed the water out in the CryoCuff I barely felt anything. I figured out why, there was a good 3/4" of insulation between the CryoCuff and my Skin. I removed most of it and put the CryoCuff as close to my skin as possible for maximum cooling.
I have no pain in my quads or in the front of my knee, I'm guessing most probably due to the fact that I didn't have a patellar tendon extracted. Quad tightening is going well. Still not much definition, but I can feel the muscle on the verge of forming.
Walking is about 20% weight bearing I hope to be on the cane by Monday.
5:30pm I had 3 Oxycotins with dinner. They just make me weird sleepy. Just seems to induce narcolepcy. Eyes lose focus of the computer screen and nod off, I've woken up with pages of one letter. However you can tell when they wear off.
Around 10 pm the sides back and inner front of my knee started throbbing. I changed out the CryoCuff water since it had gotten warm and took a few more ibuprofen. (I'm done with the Oxycotins). The block has worn off 100% by now, so I can feel my hand touching my knee, etc. I decided to get some chilling on my knee so I un wrapped it completely and applied a bag of ice to it directly.
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There's still a bit of bleeding:
but for the most part everything is in place.
Swelling isn't too severe. Remember Swelling = Decreased ROM. I'm on my back 23 hours a day and the CryoCuff is on 24.
I have about 40-45 degrees ROM. No weight bearing (all the weight is going through my crutches).
I woke up at 3:00 after falling asleep right after my previous day's drugs. I feel completely wide awake. I change out my water and put on some TV. The leg block is still at about 50%. Feeling is returning and I have some movement, but it still is numbed up.
I slept from about 6 am until about 10. Had 4 ibuprofens and 2 Oxycotins at 11 am. The leg block is down to 25%.
I unwrapped the bandages and removed a ton of gauze. Everytime I changed the water out in the CryoCuff I barely felt anything. I figured out why, there was a good 3/4" of insulation between the CryoCuff and my Skin. I removed most of it and put the CryoCuff as close to my skin as possible for maximum cooling.
I have no pain in my quads or in the front of my knee, I'm guessing most probably due to the fact that I didn't have a patellar tendon extracted. Quad tightening is going well. Still not much definition, but I can feel the muscle on the verge of forming.
Walking is about 20% weight bearing I hope to be on the cane by Monday.
5:30pm I had 3 Oxycotins with dinner. They just make me weird sleepy. Just seems to induce narcolepcy. Eyes lose focus of the computer screen and nod off, I've woken up with pages of one letter. However you can tell when they wear off.
Around 10 pm the sides back and inner front of my knee started throbbing. I changed out the CryoCuff water since it had gotten warm and took a few more ibuprofen. (I'm done with the Oxycotins). The block has worn off 100% by now, so I can feel my hand touching my knee, etc. I decided to get some chilling on my knee so I un wrapped it completely and applied a bag of ice to it directly.
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There's still a bit of bleeding:
but for the most part everything is in place.Swelling isn't too severe. Remember Swelling = Decreased ROM. I'm on my back 23 hours a day and the CryoCuff is on 24.
I have about 40-45 degrees ROM. No weight bearing (all the weight is going through my crutches).
Labels: recovery, ROM, status update
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