Knee replacement for my husband.

My husband Jeff had total knee replacement surgery on Nov 18th 2013.  He did well in the surgery and the Surgeon was well pleased with everything.   

  He was even eating his first meal at 5 PM. 

This is a really neat contraption and it did not take long for the nurses and physical therapist to get this on his leg.  It kept the knee in motion,  very slow and low % of bend at first and with each 90 minute session, about 4 per day, it was increased.   When the bending machine was off, the ice was on to take down the swelling. 

The surgery was on Monday at 9 AM and he was discharged to come home on Thursday at noon.  He was sent home with a lot of instructions, good pain killers and many appointments for upcoming physical therapy. 

 Nov 21st picture of his knee without bandages
 to see the many staples.

 This is X-ray of the new knee with the stapels still in place. 

 That open space in knee is where the plastic piece for cartilage replacement is,  It just dose not show on the X-ray.

This is a special card that Jeff got from a close friend,  5 years old.  Her and her family came to visit 

just a few days after Jeff got home.   

 YEA,  YEA,  YEA,  two weeks and one day after surgery,  Jeff was overjoyed to get the stiff, poky staples taken out. The roads were snow covered, windy, cold and slick but at this point nothing was about to stop us.   The post op appointment went well and the surgeon was well pleased with the healing, the way it looked and the percentage of bend.  

I thought the very long hall ways at the VA hospital were therapy enough but after walking two long halls and another about half this long to get to therapy, he still got a good 30 to 40 minute workout. He had therapy 3 times per week and has just now finished and had his 6 week post op.check up and X-ray.   

 Great report from the post op appointment and things are going even better than  expected.  

 

This is the X-ray from this week.   Looking great and getting better every day.   It is so amazing what progress has taken place in the medical field.  God has given much knowledge and wisdom to the Doctors, nurses and surgeons.         

OH GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, FOR HE IS GOOD AND HIS MERCY'S ENDURE FOREVER.   AMEN