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March 18, 2005
And I Am Right, and You Are Right and All Is Right -- Too-looral-lay!
Out of surgery. Bored out of my skull. I have to spend 20 hours a day with my knee above my heart, to keep swelling to a minimum, so I'm doing a lot of ceiling watching. That wasn't so bad when I was taking hydrocodone, because I slept a LOT. But that made me really nauseous, so now I'm taking darvoset and am much clearer mentally.
I got to watch the surgery. I didn't think I'd want to, but whatever the anaesthesiologist (Bob) gave me to make the spinal block administration bearable took the edge off, so I watched it on a monitor over my head and chatted with Bob about lens replacement surgery vs. Lasix.
There were no meniscal tears (my meniscus is clean and pearly white), which was a good thing, but my ACL was completely shredded. I have pictures if anyone wants to see. And I don't think the surgery took more than 90 minutes. It was scheduled for 2-2 1/2 hours, so that's a really good thing, and the doctor said it was one of the best he'd done in a while. (Though my cynical husband says that he probably says that every time.)
The doctor also says my bones are nice and hard. Which is a very good thing, considering that osteoporosis runs in my mother's family.
Posted by sally at March 18, 2005 10:17 AM
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