{"id":209720,"date":"2021-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/?p=209720"},"modified":"2021-05-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T00:00:00","slug":"a-little-too-much-too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/?p=209720","title":{"rendered":"A Little Too Much Too Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On January 20<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;I had right knee replacement surgery.&nbsp; Now the incision has healed.&nbsp; The bruised black and blue tissue from the ankle to my upper thigh looks well and healthy.&nbsp; All the bruising came four days after surgery.&nbsp; What is that all about?&nbsp; The ache remains in the muscle and tissue seemingly affected by the steel and titanium replacing my knee but not where the bruising and incision were located.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I used the walker for a week after surgery and a cane for one day.&nbsp; Since then, I have been using both legs together and alone.&nbsp; Prior to surgery I would often wake up with muscle cramps in either leg from my ankle to my thigh.&nbsp; Since surgery I have not one cramp.&nbsp; Personally, I think that I have scared the living crap out of them.&nbsp; That has also been useful because the pain medication given, Norco, leads to very serious constipation.&nbsp; It became a time of lock down city\u2026three days, four days\u2026until my daughter came up with something called Green Tea.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been advised to take my time.&nbsp; One person told me to expect a 12-month period of healing.&nbsp; The doctor told me to stick with physiotherapy for another month, not because I need it but because I need the encouragement to slow down.&nbsp; I was told if it hurts while we are doing physio, that is ok, but if you are hurting afterward, then we have done too much.&nbsp; They are incredibly careful, always asking if it hurts.&nbsp; It never does and I could not tell these beautiful young ladies otherwise.&nbsp; It usually does not hurt while I am there, but boy do I feel it later in the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The surgeon told me that pre-COVID-19 it was standard procedure for 80% of knee replacement patients to spend a night in the hospital.&nbsp; Now, eighty percent of knee replacement surgeries are outpatients.&nbsp; I was up at 4:00 A.M. and home by 4:00 P.M. in the afternoon.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;This was after I had to walk fifty yards down the hall and up and down several steps less than four hours after surgery.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was scared of permanent scarring and the inability to have a full range of motion after healing.&nbsp; &nbsp;While still in the hospital I thought I should test my range of motion.&nbsp; The knee worked fine, just as good as the other one, no pain at all, but suddenly I found I was squeezing blood through the bandages.&nbsp; Just another example of doing a little too much too soon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:42px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 20th&nbsp;I had right knee replacement surgery.&nbsp; Now the incision has healed.&nbsp; The bruised black and blue tissue from the ankle to my upper thigh looks well and healthy.&nbsp; All the bruising came four days after surgery.&nbsp; What is that all about?&nbsp; The ache remains in the muscle and tissue seemingly affected by the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":209721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_block_theme_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-founders-corner","with-featured-image"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ante-samarzija-vdbiYgw2Q8A-unsplash-scaled-1-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ante-samarzija-vdbiYgw2Q8A-unsplash-scaled-1-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Lou Haveman","author_link":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/?author=5"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}