Juju
Contributing Member
Earl had his new titanium and space-age ceramic knee installed on 31 August and he is now walking with only a crutch as an aid. Still on pain meds and ice, ice, ice.
The surgery was routine and successful, but the Chief being who he is, he has a tendency to block pain meds, so the morphine he was getting post-op wasn't doing it for him. They put him on dilaudid for a day or so, and that was a wild ride, with hallucinations, drug-induced dreams--what fun! Percocet made him drowsy, which he hated, and tylenol w/ codeine didn't put a dent in the pain, so now he's on lortab. What a goatrope! Anyway, he's doing great with physical therapy--I just try to ignore the screams of pain when the therapist is here "helping" him.
For you youngsters who've never seen a replaced knee post-op, here it is (though the staples are out by now):
The surgery was routine and successful, but the Chief being who he is, he has a tendency to block pain meds, so the morphine he was getting post-op wasn't doing it for him. They put him on dilaudid for a day or so, and that was a wild ride, with hallucinations, drug-induced dreams--what fun! Percocet made him drowsy, which he hated, and tylenol w/ codeine didn't put a dent in the pain, so now he's on lortab. What a goatrope! Anyway, he's doing great with physical therapy--I just try to ignore the screams of pain when the therapist is here "helping" him.
For you youngsters who've never seen a replaced knee post-op, here it is (though the staples are out by now):