Hi all,
I'm having some serious knee surgery on Tuesday, so after Monday I'll be out for 5 days or more. Back as soon as possible! Then I'll catch up on all the updates to our list of octos and who's keeping cuttles.

Nancy

Whoa! Hope you are doing o.k. ! Keep us posted...maybe this will keep you off of your feet long enough to do some more silver work??? Seriously, best wishes from both of us,
Shanlyn and Greg

Hi all,
I'm having some serious knee surgery on Tuesday, so after Monday I'll be out for 5 days or more. Back as soon as possible! Then I'll catch up on all the updates to our list of octos and who's keeping cuttles.

Nancy

youch! sounds like a good time to break in some icons I hope Tony will bless into smilies:

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hope it goes well!

i did this yesterday...http://nerdnirvana.org/g4m3s/virtualkneesurgery.htm


chris

Good luck Nancy! We're here.

(Monty, oops, tending to those smilies now... thanks!)

Best wishes for a speedy, and as painfree as possible, recovery. Getting older is a real *#!#@ isn't it? I'm assuming the replacement thing...but even if it isn't, knees are tough. Be well soon.

Best wishes Nancy. Don't be long, we kneed you here!

Best wishes for a fast recovery.

Originally posted by Phil Best wishes Nancy. Don't be long, we kneed you here!

Now we need a groaning smiley... Nancy, good luck and we wish you a speedy recovery.

Thanks everyone.

Yes, it's total knee replacement, which is pretty common these days.

Looking forward to getting this over with and having a new knee.

Nancy

best wishes and hope for a full recovery, if you need anything aquarium wise il give you my cell # in case of tank emergencies as we only live like 15 min apart.

Good Luck
hope you make a speedy recovery

My Dad had that done. Said it sucked right after, and to take your pain pill before physical therapy.

Now his "bionic" knee (as we call it) is much better than his remaining original one, and he didnt have a problem with the other one!

Fingers crossed indeed!

Ouch! Post # 666....

Good luck with the knee surgery. My grandmother had knee surgery on both knees a few years ago. It's going to take a while to recover depending on what type of surgery, but im sure you already know. But at least it wont stop you from coming on here so I hope to hear back from you soon.

Good luck Nancy! Make sure to take a video of you water-skiing with your new knee soon. :wink:

Best Wishes for a Speedy recovery from me and Jess!

Everyone, we have an update on Nancy from her husband:

Nancy's knee-replacement operation went very well (it was completed noon yesterday), but she is still in the hospital recovery unit. I saw her soon after the operation yesterday, and she was fine, except for being somewhat incoherent because of the drugs. She asked for a computer, presumably to do work for Tonmo, but the hospital said no.

We're thinking of you Nancy! Anxiously awaiting more updates!!!

Carol & Jess

I'm glad everything went well! Looking forward to having you back among the tentacled throng soon!

:party: :thumbsup: hope the recuperation continues to go well!

It woud have been interesting reading what you had to say when you were incoherent from the drugs! :wink: Hope the next few days pass quickly for you and you're soon home.

Yep, come back soon Nancy! Wishing you a speedy recovery.

She's now in therapy twice per day, and the hope is for her to go home by the weekend. Scaling back on medications today.

I'm arranging to have some flowers waiting for her from all of us at TONMO.com.

Tony,

Let us know how we can contribute some $$$ for the flowers...

We've got it -- it's from our Supporters!

Glad to be a supporter, in that case!

Glad to be a supporter, in that case!

Me too!

wishibng you a speedy recovery and hope your tentical gets better!


chris

Good news! I'm back! Thanks for all the good wishes - I missed you all.

The surgery went well and I'm back home with an improved knee , now just need to do lots of exercise and make it strong.

Sometimes I've envied our octo friends, no joints to give them problems, and if they have trouble with one arm, so what? There are 7 others! :smile:

Nancy

hey nancy! hows your tentical feeling?


chris

My tentacle is feeling a little stiff, but isn't very painful (unless I bend it too much! :smile: ) I can get around pretty well, but slowly (now if I only could swim about!)

Nancy

:welcome: back, good to see you here!

Ain't that the bee's knees, or something like that. :welcome: back! Are you home, or did someone bring a wireless laptop to your recovery room?

Welcome back Nancy! We missed you!!! Glad to hear you are progressing nicely!!!!:smile:

Carol & Jess

:welcome: back Nancy! Glad you're doing well. A word of warning....a friend tried to push her recovery too fast, did more than her PT said she should do, and ended up back in the hospital, so slow and steady is the way to go.

Yes, I'm home recovering and very comfortable. Sitting at my ususal place at my laptop, looking out at the shady deck and garden. It looks so much cooler than it is - will be over 100 degrees today.

Thanks for the advice, sorceress! The physical therapist is coming to my home this afternoon, will be here every day this week, and then 3 days/week for 5 weeks, so I'm going to get a real workout. No, I'm not going to push myself - these therapy sessions are supposed to be difficult enough. They measure the angles you can bend your leg with a protractor!

Your good wishes helped a lot, and it's great to be back. Just have a little catching up to do. I have some new ideas for Ceph Care, too.

Nancy

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So glad to hear things are moving right along for you. Like sorseress said, slow and steady will get you repaired faster than pushing that knee.

Do you have a dog you can train to get you stuff?

Here are the beautiful flowers that Tony sent me on behalf of the TONMO.com community. They're more colorful than this photo shows, with deeper purples and stronger contrast. I've appreciated these flowers (they arrived shortly after I got out of the hospital) and wanted to thank all of you for the good wishes that have helped me during this time!

Nancy

Very, very happy that you are doing better ! It's great you have a room with a nice view too, that makes the recovery easier than sitting in some nasty hospital room.
Keep us posted,

Greg

Thanks for the advice, sorceress! The physical therapist is coming to my home this afternoon, will be here every day this week, and then 3 days/week for 5 weeks, so I'm going to get a real workout. No, I'm not going to push myself - these therapy sessions are supposed to be difficult enough. They measure the angles you can bend your leg with a protractor!
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Check with your therapist on that. My Dad's wanted him to push it HARD on the therapy, but not to put ANY weight on it. He took his pain pill before the session and did everything he was told and more. He didn't ever try to walk on it, but when he was at his final Dr. appointment the Dr. said "It's okay you can walk now" and he did. With no pain or limit to mobility he carried his walker to the car. Someone else at work had it done and started walking on it early and had problems afterwards.

My Dad is thrilled with the final results. You will do fine.

My boss had a ruptured achille's tendon, and in physical therapy he pushed too hard (under instruction) and it re-snapped so bad that it actually broke the skin when he fell forward. I mean, he really bent it! So his new philosophy is "steady as she goes."

Do what feels right!

Nancy, I'm glad the flowers met you well!

That's a scarey story, Tony! I've heard others, too.

Also, everyone who goes through knee replacement PT never forgets it - quite painful and of course your physical therapist is the taskmaster. I'm not going to do anything too drastic, but just improving my range of motion a bit each day takes a lot of effort!

Thanks for reminding me of this - I'll be careful!

Nancy

My friend was WAAAY too impatient, and decided she could walk on it and even go up and down stairs......She was soon to learn that her PT knew a lot more than she did. That's what you get for having a type A personality!
By the way Nancy, it's really nice having you posting again.