farmerjan
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Just a note to let everyone that might be wondering that I finally had my ankle replacement on Feb 6th. My son fell coming off the back of the bale bed truck when his foot slipped and snapped his right femur and was non-weight bearing for over 2 months so we could not both be on crutches at the same time. He is back on his feet but still not back to work, but it allows me to be off mine.
Lucky thing is that they only did the replacement; the dr said he thinks most all my pain is from that joint and did not do the fusion of the lower joint. That means that if the incisions heal well, at the 2 week check up I will be into a walking boot which will be a godsend. I am non-weight on it right now, but the hopping with the walker is putting severe strain on my bad right knee. Hope to be on crutches to make it easier on the knee. Did not realize how much pressure and pain it would cause the knee, to have to do the hopping.
I am in a rehab and I can tell you that it might not have been the best choice I could have made. Guess that because I am 66, that they felt I needed an old age rehab. I have never slept in such an uncomfortable hard miserable bed. Don't know after they "assess" my need for rehab, if I will be able to stick it out here. Tried to do this to save my son several trips back and forth the 4+ hours to Duke from us in Va. But I have been here 24 hours and cannot see me lasting for another 10 days til the 20th. We'll see how today goes. Since I did not have the fusion, there is little that I need to "learn to do" since I will be able to take showers and get it wet, as soon as the 2 week checkup releases me to a walking boot, meaning the incisions are healed. I had anticipated having to learn the best ways to cope with being non-weight bearing for 2+ months.
Best thing is that the long acting "block" used in the surgery, is still effective. They said it would be 24 to 72 hours on average. Well, I had it at 7 a.m. on Thursday, 6th, and still have mostly the tingley, numbness, that you get when your foot goes to sleep. Dr said that is really good, that when I do get full feeling, that I will probably not have much pain since the worst pain is often in the first 48 hours after surgery/cutting. So , I am hoping that I will not feel too badly when I do finally get full feeling back.
Going to give it a little bit yet since I have not been to any PT or OT or anything. But I could sure use a bed that was a little bit comfortable.........
Lucky thing is that they only did the replacement; the dr said he thinks most all my pain is from that joint and did not do the fusion of the lower joint. That means that if the incisions heal well, at the 2 week check up I will be into a walking boot which will be a godsend. I am non-weight on it right now, but the hopping with the walker is putting severe strain on my bad right knee. Hope to be on crutches to make it easier on the knee. Did not realize how much pressure and pain it would cause the knee, to have to do the hopping.
I am in a rehab and I can tell you that it might not have been the best choice I could have made. Guess that because I am 66, that they felt I needed an old age rehab. I have never slept in such an uncomfortable hard miserable bed. Don't know after they "assess" my need for rehab, if I will be able to stick it out here. Tried to do this to save my son several trips back and forth the 4+ hours to Duke from us in Va. But I have been here 24 hours and cannot see me lasting for another 10 days til the 20th. We'll see how today goes. Since I did not have the fusion, there is little that I need to "learn to do" since I will be able to take showers and get it wet, as soon as the 2 week checkup releases me to a walking boot, meaning the incisions are healed. I had anticipated having to learn the best ways to cope with being non-weight bearing for 2+ months.
Best thing is that the long acting "block" used in the surgery, is still effective. They said it would be 24 to 72 hours on average. Well, I had it at 7 a.m. on Thursday, 6th, and still have mostly the tingley, numbness, that you get when your foot goes to sleep. Dr said that is really good, that when I do get full feeling, that I will probably not have much pain since the worst pain is often in the first 48 hours after surgery/cutting. So , I am hoping that I will not feel too badly when I do finally get full feeling back.
Going to give it a little bit yet since I have not been to any PT or OT or anything. But I could sure use a bed that was a little bit comfortable.........