Did I move the elf? Or did I fail once again? The question that haunts many parents this time of year. You wake in a cold sweat, stressing out over a dang stuffed elf! Did you move it? Do you have time to craft something up to save the little magic that is left in...
You want me to do what now? You can’t be serious; I have to throw away all my shoes after knee replacement surgery? If you are anything like me, that is a lot of shoes, and you were just as shocked as I was when you heard these words from your knee surgeon. The...
It is the ultimate love-hate relationship after an injury, but especially after a knee replacement, ice. Ice is cold, damp, uncomfortable, but man does it make that significantly swelled, sore knee feel better. After my partial knee replacement, I couldn’t get...
You toss, turn, cry out in pain—you’re to the point of giving up on sleep altogether. Insomnia is just going to be your new sleep routine. Trying to get a better night’s sleep after knee replacement surgery can be challenging. Especially during the first...
I’m finally getting back around to my blog after a bit of a hiatus. Thank you, Covid-19, for giving me the time again. ( If I can find a bright side in all the madness) I thumbed through the old journal and pulled out the useful info from around the time of my 6...
Your surgery date is in view. You’re in the process of getting all your tests ran, or maybe you have already been cleared. Now you are starting to wonder what else you might need to do and get before the big knee replacement surgery. This list of 10 Pieces of...
Do you or a loved one need to stay in this Valentine’s Day due to a knee replacement surgery? Maybe just having an off-knee rehab day, and staying in sounds better than being out in the busy crowds. Want to give your love/knee patient a great Valentine’s...
Week 12 is that light at the end of the tunnel that every knee replacement patient is working towards. At 12 weeks, the doctor usually gives the green light to go back to all normal activities. I had been looking forward to that appointment since my hospital stay. As...
As 2019 is coming to a close, and as I sit here and type this, I’m roughly 17 weeks post-op a partial knee replacement. I think back to January when I finally had enough of my bad knee, the pain, and lackluster life I was living and went to the doctor. In a way,...
After an adventurous but boring first four weeks of knee replacement rehab, it was time to head into the middle weeks of knee rehab. I know it sounds crazy to have it be both adventurous and boring, right? Read more about it HERE. After that fun, I figured the next...
