Thursday, September 18, 2025 - I continue to rely on my cane for long distances, though I’m able to navigate around the house without it. Driving is manageable, but exiting the driver’s seat remains a challenge—my knee doesn’t bend easily, so I have to push my seat all the way back and slowly maneuver my leg out. I am diligent with my physical therapy exercises, performing them twice each day. On Saturday, September 20, we had an interesting outing. Mary Kay’s daughter had ac

Wednesday, September 3, 2025  – I started back up on the Tramadol and have been sleeping thru the night till 4am. Then I have to get up to pee then back to sleep till 6:30am. Yesterday, at PT my trainer George asked me if I planned to take off from teaching while I am recovering from the knee operation. He appeared surprised when I said no, I have 4 classes I plan on teaching and that will start in two days. I am doing the exercises he assigned to me twice a day and while I d

Saturday, August 30, 2025 – Yesterday I was released by the VNA PT person and after he left I went with Mary Kay to Tops to get something from flash foods. It was the first car trip in over a week. It felt great getting out. I spent all day on John Killian’s family cookbook and finished it except for the forward. I think it can out great. Finally, to bed at 10:30pm. I am trying to keep a regular schedule. I moved everything from the main bathroom to the one in the master bat

This is the continuing saga of my knee surgery experience on my 2 nd  knee. Wednesday, 8/27/25 –  I started using a cane today and feel comfortable with it. I have been working on projects and have my Classes set up for the first and second weeks of September. Napping still occupies a large amount of my day with me working for two hours than napping for forty-five minutes to an hour. I feel home bound – which I am. I am anxious to get out and do something. I am cutting back o

Friday, August 22  I was up at 7:00 AM bath routine than TV, at 7:45am Mary Kay made me breakfast. Then I took a nap from 8:30 to 9:00 before doing my prayer and meditation. I called the VNA to see when the scheduled PT person would come. They said the PT person should be calling me today or early on the next day. I went through emails for both Bryant and Stratton and ECC and checked to see if my classes have been populated. They had not so I could not do much with them. It's

Thursday 8/21  I was up at 6:30 and prayed meditated before breakfast. I went through a bunch of emails and did a bunch of other little stuff like that on the computer that allowed me to stay seated. The visiting nurses associate showed up, and I thought it was going to be a TP session. It was not, it was an intake visit, and she spent about an hour and a half going through everything. I was able to show her the house; demonstrate I could get into and out of a chair and in an

The time leading up to the operation, which was on a Wednesday morning I tried to get done all the things I wanted to do before the...

Welcome and hello again. You may have been wondering what happened to me this past month. I decided to have my knee replaced in...