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it looks like Fridays message was aborted somehow. This one is being done on a real computer which is easier and faster.

After we got home on Tuesday, a cpm machine was delivered followed by a pt and her assistant(to set it up and adjust it for me). We started out at 85 degrees flex of the knee. The visiting nurse basically took vitals, and background info. She will be back next week to draw blood samples for the Gp visit coming up. The PT took me through the exercises, and how to use the cpm.

Thursday, we were pretty much confined to exercises and cpm work.

Friday, we did some exercises, some cpm time and then went to the Sr Center for some music, followed by a trip to Ormond Beach to pick up Lauras' new hearing aid, followed by meeting Janice and Norma for fish at Alfies.

Guess who is not supposed to shower, or drive. Guess who took a shower and drove Luara to Ormond. We learned a ong time ago how to protect a knee(or Picc) against getting wet in the shower, so no problem. We used to have to protect both areas, so just one knee is easy.

Driving is no problem as everything is done with the right foot. Sleeping is not really a problem, although only a few sleeping positions are comfortable. This wll get better in time.

Today, being Saturday, we are not going anywhere, just staying home, exercising, cpm ing and catching up on some of our paperwork, etc.

I have pain pills which are being used sparingly. We are amazed at how smoothly and easily this situation is going. I use the walker to get up and down from the cpm, and the crutches for walking.

We go to see the surgeon on Monday afternon. To date we have no real guidance as to how much wt should be put on the new knee. We have about 30 staples still in the knee, but not causing any trouble.

On the cpm we have told by the pt that they want me to reach 120 degrees of bend.ing. I have already been as high as 104.

although done on my computer, some mistakes pop up, no excuses.