wow, i'm really stoned

[Guest guest]

Did your doctor tell you to take these medications this way? Sleep is good

for you to heal but not

constant sleep unless you are in lots of pain......JMHO........

wow, i'm really stoned

i spent my first full day at home, asleep. i was in the CPM machine and i'd

turn on the tv and then fall asleep for an hour, two or three; get up go tot

he john, get something to eat and then go back into the cpm and go back top

sleep. i really hate this. this morning i took tylenol instead of the

hydrocone; but i took a valium and now that's making me really sleepyl so i

guess i'm in for a nother day f sleeping. it just doesn't seem like the the

healthiest thing to do to be immobile that long.

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[Guest guest]

i took tylenol this morning and slept while i was in the cpm but i'm finally

feeling more sober. i had all these projects planned work on and i can't think

straight. I kept telling them in the hospital that i wasn't in that much pain

but they insisted on the nocor and valium. my biggest frustration is not haivng

the muscle strength to lift my leg. but i know that will come.

[Guest guest]

That will be one of your PT workouts for sure. It was one of my major RT

THR post op PT hurdles last year and glad I worked on it then because now it is

also part of my new RT TKR post op PT requirements.

Today, i am so pleased to have discovered just now when i went to lay legs and

body (lol) flat on bed for awhile that my attempt to actively do a full knee

bend with foot flat on bed and close to body (same as other knees best knee

bend,) that I did NOT feel ANY pull on the scar or any sense of fullness or

swelling within my knee. iI say to that first time finding. Must

tell my PT tomorow.

I think now that i should be able to drive again, that i will go to stores with

baskets and

time myself as to how long before I loose tolerance or get a stop watch or

something to time myself. But then again each day in PT presents new and more

immediately important challenges which bring on new pains so some days i

should expect I might not be comatible with such plans.

L

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> i took tylenol this morning and slept while i was in the cpm but i'm finally

feeling more sober. i had all these projects planned work on and i can't think

straight. I kept telling them in the hospital that i wasn't in that much pain

but they insisted on the nocor and valium. my biggest frustration is not haivng

the muscle strength to lift my leg. but i know that will come.

>

[Guest guest]

What is a CPM machine?

fear comes from the enemy, dont give him any glory!

-- Re: wow, i'm really stoned

That will change (at least it did for me) to where your body will be craving

to get out of bed and you will find yourself rearranging the hours that make

up you total time spent in that CPM machine so that they coincide with your

needs or cravings to be up and about. i finally ended up telling my hubbie

to just leave the machine on the bed all day long ( I had to give up bed

space when i napped but not a problem ) and I began putting MYSELF into and

out of it at preplanned intervals that totaled my required daily tally. My

doc said all he cared about was that i did it for his required daily number

of hours.

L

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> i spent my first full day at home, asleep. i was in the CPM machine and i

d turn on the tv and then fall asleep for an hour, two or three; get up go

tot he john, get something to eat and then go back into the cpm and go back

top sleep. i really hate this. this morning i took tylenol instead of the

hydrocone; but i took a valium and now that's making me really sleepyl so i

guess i'm in for a nother day f sleeping. it just doesn't seem like the the

healthiest thing to do to be immobile that long.

>

[Guest guest]

Our joint knee replacement clinic gave us a list of exercises to do 2 weeks

before we had surgery. Some we have to do while at the hospital and some

after we get home in addition to going to physical therapy.

fear comes from the enemy, dont give him any glory!

-- wow, i'm really stoned

i took tylenol this morning and slept while i was in the cpm but i'm finally

feeling more sober. i had all these projects planned work on and i can't

think straight. I kept telling them in the hospital that i wasn't in that

much pain but they insisted on the nocor and valium. my biggest frustration

is not haivng the muscle strength to lift my leg. but i know that will come.

[Guest guest]

Sleep is essential for healing. In the first few weeks, when you are not up to

go to the bathroom, eating, or doing physical therapy, sleep is healing. When

you have surgery, you are like a baby, just doing the essential things to stay

alive. Enjoy your naps and enjoy the break from pain that the pain pills give

you. Devora

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> i spent my first full day at home, asleep. i was in the CPM machine and i'd

turn on the tv and then fall asleep for an hour, two or three; get up go tot he

john, get something to eat and then go back into the cpm and go back top sleep.

i really hate this. this morning i took tylenol instead of the hydrocone; but i

took a valium and now that's making me really sleepyl so i guess i'm in for a

nother day f sleeping. it just doesn't seem like the the healthiest thing to do

to be immobile that long.

>

[Guest guest]

> Our joint knee replacement clinic gave us a list of exercises to do 2 weeks

> before we had surgery. Some we have to do while at the hospital and some

> after we get home in addition to going to physical therapy.

I was also told to do exercises before surgery and I do think it helped a lot..

these were exercises you could do in bed or when sitting around so they

were easy to do..

Donna M

Mi