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Amaryllis/Hippeastrum

Report on my Surgery follow up visit.

16 years ago

ITs good, all good! Bye bye walker, hello Nordic walking poles or walking staff. Dr Aays to walk an hour a day..I may ease into that a bit gently till my iron levels come up more but we are having fairly pleasant weather and live on a country road with wide shoulders! I think I get my life back here!

THanks for the support my friends! It has meant a lot to me and you have brightened these last 10 days immeasurably. I can certainly take care of my plants in the green house now, and oh yes, Stitches are out! I just have to remember to wear my gardening gloves and not have any dirt dust to breath. I will always have to have antibiotics if I Get a cut or scratch or the bacteria can settle in the knee joint.

Hee hee, FOund out I got the Zimmer Woman's knee!

LizaLily

I am just totally amazed to find myself here already after that rough start following surgery!

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liltika
16 years ago
Congratulations on the good news! When the weather is nice the one hour walk a day won't be a chore but rather a treat :) Hope the weather is great for your walks!

Keep taking good care of yourself, and enjoy your greenhouse plants :)

Liltika
kitty747
16 years ago
WOW!!! Look how far you've come in that 10 days. Amazing! Now that all that is mostly behind you, you're ready to enjoy spring. That's just wonderful.
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chazparas
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10 DAYS!!!! You're a superstar!
I knew recovery is pretty rapid from my clinical setting last semester but this is great! Once you get the other done there will be no keeping up with you!!
cindeea
16 years ago
(((((((((((((LIZA))))))))))) Astonishing! I am so happy for you. I know how you feel, babe. Modern medicine, eh? I have to do the penicillin thing too like before I go to the dentist, even...for the rest of our lives. Seems weird but a small price to pay to feel great, don't you think?

YOU GO GIRL, I'll hopefully be catching up to you soon!
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Original Author
16 years ago
Ah, but then I have the other knee to take care of CIndee so you will be way ahead of me! At this time I do not intend to the the other until after Frost takes my garden, but we will see where my pain levels are. THe right knee has been without cartilege for 28 years and is rotating inward so it will ge great to get it fixed. By then you should be leaping up and down your hillside, LOL.
cindeea
16 years ago
lol Liza, I dream (Literally) of leaping, running and doing cartwheels like I used to be able to do. Sometimes I wake up so tired because I exercised and ran like the wind in my dreams! I have been noticing the past two weeks how I am now favoring my left side, leg and knee. I was up and down the tomato steps today, planting up some raspberries. I told Dennis it's amazing how I now depend on my right leg/hip (the side of my surgery) and drag my left leg along anymore. Plus when I stand, I tend to put all the weight of my body on my NEW side. Girl, we are gonna be bionic gardeners by summer for sure!

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