As you may/may not recall, I had my second total knee replacement surgery six weeks ago. As is typical, the main pain avoidance med, Oxy, was prescribed… for a week. I’ve recently learned that the nationwide average of this post-knee replacement surgery prescription is 17 days. Am I tougher, tougher, and/or more insane than most? Should I have asked for more?
Nope – I’m not into dope (wink-wink)
Thank goodness I’m not the addictive type, and, additionally, I apparently didn’t inherit my father’s low pain threshold. Actually, I was glad to be off the medication; it addled my brain. Brain fog became a term with which I was familiar for the first time, and I didn’t like it.
As I mentioned, I’m now six weeks post, and I’m starting to see progress worthy of the pain that evolves from rigorous rehab. A series of other meds marched me forward, none of them narcotic and none of them wine.
I’ve learned a new word, vinolent, more prevalent in my youth and when we first moved to California… supporting the economy, you know.
Aldous Huxley; The Tillotson Banquet; The Century Magazine; Jan 1921.
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