Knee Replacement Day 10 thru 14
- bobchuckpatterson
- Oct 24
- 3 min read
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 bath.
Today (Saturday) I was up at 6:50pm. I slept all night with only two Tylenol at bedtime and one at 4am. Bath routine prayer, meditation, did some stuff on the computer, went to wake Mary Kay at 8.
When she had just gotten up, she made breakfast, then I took a nap at 9:20 to 11am. I sorted some papers and finished the Killian cookbook, now surgery diary notes.
The Killian cookbook was a handwritten cookbook that was from my sons-in-law grandmother and I took it from no oven temperatures, times and with lots of missing instructions to being designed for people who don’t know how to cook. It’s noon time for the noon news.
Sunday, September 1st, 2025 – I felt like the day was lost, I did my AI Course, I diarized, I checked my classes, no students loaded into any of them. I napped poorly; I think too many naps in the past.
It was not till 4 that I finally settled down to work on the 2018 photo album. Before I stopped that night, I completed photo Album of the five days we were on our New England cruise last year. Mary Kay made a shaved beef sandwich for dinner. To bed at 10:30pm
Tuesday – September 2, 2018 – I had my evaluation today at the PT training facility. It was at an ungodly hour of 7:15am for paperwork, otherwise I would have had to wait till the end of the month.
The first P.T. happened at 7:30am as soon as I finished the paperwork and evaluation. It went well, hurt, new exercises. Mary Kay had driven me there and waited till I was finished.
I feel like I am still sleeping poorly, it seems I keep waking up every two hours and I toss and turn. My classes were just loaded into my schedule for SUNY Erie College (ECC) and Bryant Straton College (BSC).
My BSC has no population listed for each class. ECC, I have 16 students. So tomorrow I will build out my entire semester of classes. I am also working on clearing space for the class material I want to move into my office.
Tomorrow, I have my first class with BSC. I can’t wait to get life back to normal. This time I have not had the pain associated with the surgery like I did last time.
Wednesday, September 3, 2025 – I started back up on the Tramadol and have been sleeping thru the night till 4am to pee than 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 and he appeared surprise when I said no. I am teaching in two days.
I am doing the exercises he assigned to me twice a day and while I don’t feel tired, I will lay back in the recliner, ice my knee and fall asleep. That happened this morning even though I didn’t plan to sleep. I woke up when Mary Kay got up.
It hurts while I do the exercise but feels better after I stop. It has been two weeks since the operation. Last time I was just being discharged from the Rehabilitation facility and could only get into the car with help.