Butrfly's Wonderings

Stu's surgery went fine yesterday. Took less than an hour with a couple of hours of recovery time. His doctor said that Stu's knee has gotten worse since last year's surgery. He repeated that Stu eventually will have to get knee replacements but they still want to postpone that for as long as possible, saying that Stu is very young for that. The arthroscopy surgery was to repair a torn medial cartilage, torn lateral cartilage, and clean and scrape loose stuff in knee including debris and osteoarthrosis. Stu had a fair amount of demerol and slept most of yesterday but he's starting to feel the pain from surgery today.

Sure hope this lasts him awhile or the doctors finally give in and do the knee replacement surgery on him. Stu lives in constant excruitiating pain most of the time. Much like my mom. So far, I've been able to escape most of it other then a few aches in joints now and then.

I broke down my resistance to spending $50 on a blanket and finally bought an electric blanket a few days ago. What a difference it makes. Not sleeping under the weight of 4 blankets and a comforter and the extra warmth sure makes it easier getting the stiffness out of my joints in the morning. The blanket should pay for itself in no time too, because I've been able to turn the furnace off completely rather then keeping it at 60 during the night.