State of the Knee

[ladysprite]

Well, it's official - after talking to my physical therapist, my orthopedist, and a surgeon today, they all agree that I need surgery for my knee. The big challenge now is scheduling it.

I had anticipated spending at least a month or two jumping through hoops dealing with consultations and referrals and pre-evaluations, winding up with getting cut somewhere around the end of May. My work schedule is already full through the end of July, but I had at least told many of my clients for May and June that I might need to cancel a day or two for medical reasons.

Instead, I've been scheduled for surgery in two weeks. This is good, because the sooner I can have surgery, the sooner I start to get better. It's also good because the week that I'm scheduled for the procedure, I'll only need to cancel two days of work. (The surgeon said I'll need to take a full week off, and I believe him - I want to do everything right, since I have no desire to go through this twice.) On the other hand, I'm not supposed to cancel unless I can give a full month's notice, and this would leave the practice I'm supposed to be working at entirely in the lurch.

I've left messages for the agent I work through, and I honestly hope that she tells me to go ahead with the surgery. It's not exactly an elective procedure, and my knee has been getting worse instead of better. Also, the surgeon is apparently not scheduling for May at this point, so I'd have a heck of a hard time getting a month's notice no matter when I wind up being cut.

I've found so many benefits to relief work - now I think I'm starting to run into the downside.

Of course, fretting about work and schedule is at least doing a good job of distracting me from fretting about the fact that someone is going to be cutting my knee open and stuffing a camera into it.....

Comments

[wren13.livejournal.com]

Hopefully she can get coverage for you. I'd offer, but I'm booked. Hopefully get to work with you when you are back in May, though.

[ladyqkat.livejournal.com]

Good luck on all fronts. I recovered rapidly from my knee surgery a couple of years ago, but it is hard to remember that you had surgery when there is no big long gash but just a couple of holes where they had the camera and stuff.

[gingicat]

Best of luck with everything. You're not far from us; would you like company while healing?

[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

I never thought I'd say this to you, of all people, but for the love of God don't post JPEGs.

Seriously, though, good luck. My father had a similar sort of procedure (holes, camera, etc.) done on his abdominal cavity and the recovery time was surprisingly short, so I expect if you can actually be prevailed upon to stay off the thing until it's healed, you'll be good to go by high summer.

'Course, that's the trick, isn't it. :)

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

I had a roommate in Minnesota who has knee surgery, and ditched her crutches in less than a week, and made a full recovery much quicker than I expected. The things they can do...

[oakleaf-mirror.livejournal.com]

Best of luck with it!

[weasel2000.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you need surgery, but I wish you the best and I hope you have a speedy recovery :-) I'm sure you will be dancing in no time! :-D

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

I hope the surgery goes well, you recover quickly and fully, and are back to dancing soon.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Sorry it's necessary, but I hope it goes smoothly!

[pagawne.livejournal.com]

Hope all goes well with your surgery. "Do what the nice doctors tell you to the first time and all should go well." Quote from someone who ment well anyway. }: Please let us know how it goes.

[mneme]

I'm sorry to hear you need surgery.
Good luck on the orthoscopy! (Or so I presume is the procedure you outline from your description).

[lakshmi-amman.livejournal.com]

*big hug*

Good vibes are being sent your way.

[gyzki.livejournal.com]

someone is going to be cutting my knee open and stuffing a camera into it

Go go gadget, knee-cam! Oh, wait, pointing inside, and they'll take it out afterward. Oh, well.

Seriously, I wish you the best for the surgery and the recovery, and hope everyone is reasonable on the scheduling and notice front, because surely there has to be some tolerance for things like this?

[dreda.livejournal.com]

Good luck - I'll think very healthy thoughts to your knee!

(Laparoscopic surgery is pretty nifty - I was up and bounding within 48 hours of major abdominal surgery.)

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

My good wishes go with you.

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

I hope I don't even need to say that I love you, and hope the surgery goes incredibly well and that you're back on your feet in no time, or rather, some minimal, but realistic, amount of time, since we both know that 'no time' is impossible in this instance.