Surgery at Last

God, it's been a rough summer.
I could write a long post about the nonsense I've had to go through leading up to this surgery, not the least of which was getting a call the night before

that the insurance company hadn't yet given approval. But the hospital staff worked hard on that and I got the call at 8:30 in the morning to come in at 10:30.

The surgery was at 2:30 and as I understand it took about an hour. Everyone was really nice. It's strange to be looking up at a ceiling one moment and to be waking up in recovery at what seems a short time later. I told the anesthesiologist that I get sick so they put something in my IV to help with that. I only felt a little queasy in recovery and the nurse gave me something.

So now I've got this stabilizer thing on for a few days. It's soft but has a brace in the back so I can't bend my leg. 

I'm walking with a cane until I take the contraption off on Monday. My stitches come out October 5. I'm just damned glad to have all this behind me and I hope this works to take away my knee pain. It's annoying when you can't walk any decent length.