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Good luck with your recovery mate

 

I feel for you Tricky, I had a knee op some years ago and had bleeding in the knee so they put a vacuum drain in.
Next day a nurse came in to change the drain but she didn’t release the vacuum before she started pulling the tube out! I nearly knocked her on her arse
And you should have seen me trying to get out of bed to the loo with this bottle of strawberry milkshake attached to my knee

 

FFS mate
SIT DOWN and have a drink

 

Well I didn’t want you chickening out but having had both done, yup, it’s like being hit by a truck then have him reverse over you and check his power steering. Apparently I am a 24 carat a******e on morphine. I just knew I was ‘uncomfortable’.
As I have said before, work through the pain and give yourself hell to maximise mobility and long term utility. The short term pain is duller in my memory than the chronic pain before getting the replacements.
In 10 days you’ll be chiding yourself for being a wimp!

 

Maybe be should open a Bionic Chapter for the Titanium Crew. Well ‘ard but lightweight!

 

Get better soon mate, I feel your pain, from another wimp,lol.
A couple of days and you will be fine if youre like my mate was when he had his knee done.

 

Flex, flex, flex! I know you feel like Long John Silver with the peg leg on fire but don’t wimp out or you won’t maximise the coming benefits.

 

Ow ow ow. This is not reassuring. I'm waiting for the call for both knees replacement - thence my id - Flay, (for those who have read 'Titus Groan')

 

The best pre op preparation is watching the YouTube video. Viewer discretion and a barf bag is advised.

 

Get well soon,Tricky! Marathons don't run themselves you know!

 

Hope you feel better soon.......

 

Get well soon, bummer about the pain but sure it will be worth it

 

No pain .... no gain. It's never going to be easy - obviously - but, as others have said, to get the maximum long term benefit you have to go through the (hopefully) short term hell. I do hope the pain is short lived and that the long term benefits are very soon taken for granted!

Speedy recovery and best wishes, TD.

 

I agree mate, I tore my cruciate ligament & damaged the cartilage when competing at Moto-Cross, this was back in late 1980's when things were done a little different to now. These days they get everything moving again very quickly, I had 3 months in full leg plaster, when it came off, the muscles round my knee had wasted away, bending it was absolute agony, it took a lot of physio and pain to get full movement back. The no pain, no gain comments are very true, much as you don't want to hear it, you'll have to grit your teeth & get the physio done.

 

I feel your pain mate, stick in there..........

 

Stick at it mate, on the plus side, you are 5 days post operation & have started on the rehabilitation, it will improve, not as quickly as you would like but you'll get there.

 

Your taking you pain meds wrong,,wash them down with a glass of zacapa 23,,,pain free in no time ,,,,