End of Week 5 post op
Well as it turned out, it was agreed that my dressing still needs changing every day. So that’s what’s happening, and apparently progress is still better than expected. My consultant warned that healing would slow though so far there doesn’t seem to be any evidence that it has. The district nurse who saw it today hasn’t seen it since the first weekend post-op, so that’s 5 weeks. Her words upon looking today were “That’s amazing!” which I think is a good reaction. So I’m feeling positive, there doesn’t seem to be any pain to speak of, just a bit uncomfortable. I’m also going to have no knees soon! I’ve been kneeling instead of sitting so much in recent memory and particularly in the weeks since my surgery.
The things I think I’m looking forward to most after 5 weeks of having a dressing and counting are being able to have a proper shower, and not having to have tape ripped off my backside every day. After that, being able to sit comfortably on a sofa, drive and things like mowing the lawn or going to the cinema. Simple things really, that I haven’t done for months or in some cases more than a year.
So nothing particularly exciting to report, but I thought I’d update the blog anyway.
