Day 2 After Surgery

I had the surgery on Thursday, September 9. It was done at noon.

On Thursday, I could fully extend my leg. I could bend it as well, so that I could sit on a chair and have it at a 90 degree angle. I spent most of the day on the couch; icing, then bending, then repeating.  It was lame (quite literally), but not painful.

Friday changed all that.  My knee decided it didn't like the operation one bit, and in response proceeded to swell the size of a cantaloupe under my ace bandage.  Those all-so-easy right leg lefts became not-so-easy and then became impossible.  The same went for the earlier effortless balancing of my weight on the right leg.

Throughout the day, I sat and watched TV. Normally, I only watch shows by DVR.  Now that I was forced to watch things live, I realized that approximately one in three commercials in Beaumont were for trial lawyers.  I learned, from repeated exposure every 10 minutes, that "doors do two things: they open, and they close," and that the time was now for me to seek money from the insurance company due to hurricane Ike.  I honestly think that if I had not found some leftover shows on the DVR, I would have had the entire script of the commercial memorized.