They tell me I will be walking on it later the same day. Early morning surgery, late afternoon
standing and maybe walking. Lots of PT is scheduled, and I will be doing all they recommend,
and I suspect it will be time consuming and tiring and likely won't feel like doing a lot afterwards.
Thanks for the kind words. Another adventure.
Short stairs to negotiate, will be super careful. Seriously thinking that sitting and single
butt-stepping down and up at first may be the safest. Will see how stable it is, have
railings on all of them, and damned sure will be using the railings. Stairs to the front porch,
stairs up to the bedroom. But each is only about 6 steps, so not long, full story, just
split level stuff. But loading room is in the basement, too cluttered for a walker so will
just have to wait for a while. The PA said I would need a walker "for a few days" and then a
cane " for a few days". I suspect it varies a lot. Since my other knee is 100% good, and I am
in good general shape, I hope this will help. I know a lot of folks have one totally shot knee
and one 70-80% shot knee, so the "good one" isn't as able to compensate well. Hope my good, normal
knee can help me work through it better. This is due to an old accident which damaged one
knee, not the more usual "just wore out" which gets both roughly the same. Lots of unknowns.
Bill