Hello, friends,
Finally I am without a frames! Surgery was at 24th of November, 7 AM in the morning. I don’t know when I woke up for the first time because probably after 30 seconds I felt asleep again and I was sleeping until 5 PM. First day was really disappointing. I expected to be at much better condition than after the first surgery. No way! I was in a harsh pain and even painkillers didn’t work well. I didn’t sleep at all for the whole night. I couldn’t move my legs even by 1 cm so when I wanted to change position, I was moving them with my hands. Also muscle cramps were hitting each 10-15 minutes, and when your legs are just after the surgery, these cramps are really painful.
By the way, now I really understand why some guys were really unhappy about hospital service while I gave 10/10 after the first surgery. I was very comfortable after the first surgery at August, most of the time pain was like 1/10 even without painkillers, I was able to move my legs, even walk from the second day. So what can I tell now: when you are not in pain, when you can go to WC by yourself, actually, you don’t care when they give you painkillers or if they give you at all. You don’t care when they come you to escort to toilet or when they gonna empty your pee bottle if you can do by yourself. Now I really understand that this hospital service sucks. It’s not normal to keep asking for painkillers for 2 hours and to hear: "wait a minute". Or keep asking to empty your pee bottle for 40 minutes and again to hear: "wait a minute", etc, etc. Damn, I was really angry.
Second day (Thursday) was a bit better. I was manage to sleep for 3 hours but again I wasn’t sleeping for the whole night. Finally painkillers has started to work. Also didn’t help the fact that some works are going on in the hospital so from 8 AM you hear drilling, knocking hammers, etc. Luckily, dr. Giotikas gave me the earplugs.
On third day (Friday) they have discharged me. Normally I would ask them to keep me for at least one more day because I was still weak as hell and I had no idea how I gonna be able to climb the stairs at my house while I was barely moving my legs. But I really wanted to get out of the hospital so I thought maybe I gonna move to hotel without a stairs for a couple of days until I get stronger. Sadly, the only known hotel without a stairs (another patient lives here) was fully booked so nurse (a guy) get me to the home. Together with a guy from the street they were able to bring my up the stairs.
Being at home was incomparably better than at hospital. Head of the nurse came to my house a helped me to do a lot of things, also she was keeping me morally because I was really disappointed about my condition. Her help and support was invaluable for me. Maybe I used a little bit too much melatonin at the Friday’s evening (or maybe I was so happy being far from the hospital) but I was sleeping for 11 hours. Especially from yesterday I’ve started to feel stronger and stronger. Now I can move my legs pretty good (still not the same as the day before the surgery), range of motion has started to return and pain is low. I have a little pain in distraction site, also sometimes a little in the ankles. But I am really surprised that I have no pain at all in my knees. Also last days before the surgery my knees were bended pretty much. Now they are still bended but far less, and when I try to extend them, I don’t feel any stretching feeling like before, it’s like the motion is blocked by something inside the knees. So I think that's maybe a liquids and blood inside the knees and after few days I hope it gonna be even better.
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Topic: +6 cm tibia LATN with dr. Dimitrios Giotikas (Read 17187 times)