I was discharged from the hospital at lunchtime today.
The surgeon is very pleased with the way the operation went, and if he's pleased, I'm pleased. It took a fair bit longer than expected - about 5 hours! Part of the problem, apparently, was removing the previous 'nail' (the piece of metal running the length of my femur, holding my knee the right distance from my hip) - this, when they finally got it out, was found to be a bit bent. On hearing this I apologised to the surgeon, cos it meant I'd put too much weight on it, but he said not to worry as everyone does it. Hmmm. But the xrays on Monday looked good too, so everything bodes well for a successful outcome.
Post-op recovery was a bit up and down - the day after I felt really fine, but the day after that I felt lousy as the morphine had bunged up my digestive system. But then I came off the morphine, and with some other drugs to get me 'going again', I settled ok. Amazingly, I was out of bed and on my feet the day after the op, if only to travel from bed to chair, and two days later I was moving around on crutches, albeit considerably slower than I was a week ago. Yesterday I was well enough to be given an afternoon pass to attend the funeral of a schoolfriend, and, while it tired me out a bit, it was obvious I was ok to be discharged.
Anyway, enough of the purple prose, how about some pictures! The one I have is a little gruesome, so click here if you dare. I think it looks like something out of a Boris Karloff movie.