Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Whoops!

Well, the hubby had his first post-op appointment this morning and it was rather insightful. Apparently I didn't fully grasp the fact that he'll be recovering for quite a while. It's been nearly two weeks since the surgery and he was told not to go to work until they could see his progress at this appointment. Thank goodness they finally got those awful staples out of his knee today! I thought he'd be much better after that, be able to work out some stiffness and have to head back to work on Monday. Boy was I wrong! They told him that he can't go back to work for another month so that he can regain his full range of motion and THEN start back to physical therapy. WOW! That's a lot longer than I expected. I feel bad now because I've been getting onto him for not doing very much around the house and not attacking his "to do while you don't have to work" list. lol The poor guy shouldn't be doing any of it! I certainly got my reality check today and will definitely be more sensitive now. I felt sooo bad though!


This is a picture of his xray. It shows how out of place his knee cap was. 
That was only one of the problems they had to fix.


My poor baby's knee after surgery.
I need to get a picture of what it looks like now.

2 comments:

Mrs. M said...

Ouch! It looks very painful. I will be hoping for yall that he has a full recovery and doesn't have any problems with that knee down the road.

Julie said...

Thank you! You're too sweet. So far so good. He starts physical therapy soon and that'll be good for him.