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5 Weeks – Day 35

Posted in Serendipity, tagged , , on September 7, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Jed PT Coach
Lincoln helping with naps
Day 11 – 1st Drive
Lots of Bruising
Day 3-1st Day of PT
Day 1

Yesterday was 5 weeks since my knee surgery.  The recovery is going well.  I went with a procedure called Makoplasty which helped to speed recovery.  (Read more here.)  PT has been hard but worth it.  I am sure that Jed and Lincoln’s help has made all the difference in my therapy.  🙂

Patience is not my strong suit so I feel like I should be all well by now but I know I have weeks to go before I’m able to do everything again but I am well on my way.  And I am back at work-The Studio full time.

Of course, having a snake bite me during week 4 didn’t help the healing.  (That’s a whole other story!)

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The Colors of Healing

Posted in daily painter, Serendipity, tagged , , on August 15, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Day 14- Front view
Day 14- Right Side
Day 14- Left Side

I haven’t posted much about my recent knee surgery on my blog.  But for almost three years I have suffered with some pretty painful arthritis is both knees but especially in my right one.  I tried everything I read or heard about to make it better from Physical Therapy, injections, medications, chiropractic work and more.  I even had my meniscus repaired in the right knee back in December thinking that it was the cause of the majority of the pain but turns out that it was mostly the arthritis causing the pain.

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Lincoln encouraging  me through my PT exercises this morning.

I never realized that arthritis could be so painful.  My Granny had arthritis that she often complained about and we just thought she was a hypochondriac. I wish I could tell her how much I feel for the pain she was experiencing.  So after trying everything I found a surgeon who used Makoplasty (read about that here) so that I could cut my recovery time in half.  I didn’t want to close The Studio for 6 or 8 weeks while I recovered from “regular” surgery.  I had the surgery 14 days ago.  Today I go for my post-surgical appointment and  I am anxious to hear what he has to say about it….and hopefully have the stitches removed.

And  I want to find out what is next for the left knee which also has painful arthritis.  I am hoping that we don’t have to go through this again real soon.  We’ll see.

***NOTE:  I realize this isn’t about art (although there are some interesting shades of blue and purple on my leg) or The Studio but I have had dozens of people message me about the knee surgery as they are going through the same thing and have been watching my posts on Facebook so they know what to expect when and if they have to do it.  I understand their curiosity because I would have loved to have known  more before going through it. That is why I am sharing this today.

 

 

 

 

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Makoplasty-An Art of It’s Own

Posted in Serendipity, tagged , , on August 5, 2016| Leave a Comment »

MakoplastyI’ve missed a blog post or two and been a little slow in reacting to messages because I had knee surgery on Tuesday.  Arthritis in my knees is so bad that I finally couldn’t function any longer without getting it fixed.  Because of my age (young by arthritis standards) and because I really only needed the outer side (lateral) repaired, I opted for a type of surgery called Makoplasty.  My reasoning was mainly because the recovery time is suppose to be cut almost in half which appealed to me as a small business owner because I had a lot of anxiety over closing my Studio for a long period of time.  (Read more about Makoplasty here.)

The surgery went well on Tuesday (Day 1) and I was even allowed to come home that afternoon.  That night and evening was difficult with LOTS of pain.  I’m not sure that would have been the experie)ce of all patients but I have an unusually high tolerance to pain medications and most doctors don’t believe this when you tell them even though I have records from previous docs that indicate it and so they started me out on a regular dose of meds.  To make a really long story short things got better when I started taking what I knew I needed instead of what they prescribed. So Day 2 I finally got some relief and sleep.

Day 3, yesterday, I started Physical Therapy and I have  regular schedule of therapy to  keep for a few weeks but I am planning to be back to work at The Studio in two weeks.

In the meantime I will continue to share with you art that I am working on, or from The Studio or other interesting tidbits that I find.  And for all my students and friends who have sent well wishes, they mean so much more to me than I could ever express.  Thank you all!!!

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