When I started searching the internet for information on knee replacement, I came across a number of patient-authored, detailed journals. Some described the entire hospital stay, including the surgical experience and what happened afterward. I found it helpful and informative, and I thought I'd try to do the same. I can only assume that the authors of the articles had assistance because I failed miserably to write any consistent account. I'd written several notations on a notepad, but, while some entries are clear, others are not. The sequence is doubtful. Some events I would have recalled; others would have been completely forgotten if I hadn't read them, though in reading them, I do remember.
I had thought that I'd left the hospital the second morning after surgery without having seen the surgeon. But my "journal" entry reveals that at some point, I had been walking, using the walker I suppose, and accompanied by someone, I also have to suppose, when the surgeon asked how I was doing. I answered that the knee felt sideways. His reply, according to my notes, was, "I can assure you that one thing we do not do is install knees sideways." I told him that of course I didn't mean that the knee was sideways, but that I felt like I was veering sideways when I was walking on it. Ah, veering! Wouldn't you think doctors would know the effects of anesthesia?
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