My Right Patella Recovery

Cast Off, Party!!!

OK, so I did not really have a full-blown party! I was excited to get it off although I was in extreme pain when I got home from the appointment.

The pain was about, if not worse than the pain when I was in labor with my daughter was born. I was in full-blown labor when I decided I had to get to trhe hospital and every bump and jiggle from the car on the road made things twice as bad. The good thing about that was I was fully dilated and ready to deliver when I got to the hospital. This was very similar to my first birth except that my water broke the first before getting to the hospitalk. The only thing that alerted me to needing to get to the hospital quick with my daughter was a bloody discharge right before we left.

Anyway, the cast is off and thus the pain is much worse because of the stiffness of the leg. After being in a full cast for 9 wks it was to the point that when I bent the leg I could not straighten it out without feeling nauseated.

The doctor took an x-ray before taking off the cast and was pleased with the healing process so far. Of course there is still healing to be done but it is at a point were hurting it now (or re-breaking the leg would be hard, although do-able.)

I did put the brace on this afternoon even though he said I would not need it. I was having too much trouble keeping it straight and it was hurting due to the spasms that are unexpected and due to the fact that I have cerebral palsy.

Anyway, thank you all for reading this journal. This is a long slow process that none of the family wants to ever have happen again.

I will still make in-frequent updates here because the recovery process, by no means is over.

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I am more myself in solitude.
For in solitude I am myself.
-(c)Melia Benjamin, August 2000

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