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Dear Friends,
I don't think I've ever experienced such pain - it makes my double mastectomy feel like a manicure.
I went to the doctor yesterday so that he could take a look at the wound and of course he thought it looked great. Surgeons always love their work. To me it looks like Frankenstein put my knee together, to him it looks like a work of art. Anyway, he explained exactly what the operation was: apparently I smashed the lower part of the kneecap into so many fragments that they couldn't be salvaged and just had to be picked out - and thank God, those pieces of bone are not crucial - then he stitched the tendon back-and-forth and drilled holes in the knee to thread the suture material through to the top part of the tendon in order to join the two separated parts together!
I said, "Oh my God, no wonder it hurts."
I have the metal staples (about 30) removed on Monday and then at least I'll be able to take a proper shower.
I'm staying with friends on the West Side - it's a large apartment in an elevator building but I am moving back into my own place this coming Sunday. It's going to be tricky getting up and down the stairs, but I must get back into my life - I have so much to do - and I need to be around my stuff.
My leg is in a soft cast and I'm getting around on crutches which will be the case for six weeks, or maybe five weeks now.
Naturally, I feel very frustrated and this amount of pain is dulling to the mind and I don't want to take intense pain killers with opiates because on those drugs I suffer with restless leg syndrome, so to have restless led syndrome with my leg in a cast would drive me mad.
So, that's my update - the bright spot on the horizon is that it looks like Obama will triumph. Let us pray!
I'll enter again in a few weeks.
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With Love,
Lorna |
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11/4/2008
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Lorna Kelly
"Write that book for the Glory of God
and the Good of people"
- Mother Teresa
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