Two weeks after my Knee Replacement

Today (Friday) the nurse took out the staples. It is two weeks since I had the knee replacement operation, and all indications are that I am healing well. I came home after only three days, instead of the usual 4, but that is because of the facility that I exhibited with the Zimmer frame and crutches. I am still using crutches, one around the house and both when I go out. I guess that I haven't been doing the exercises as often as they specified, but the document from the hospital said six times/hour, but not for how many hours in a day! I saw the Physio on Wednesday and she gave me some different exercises. Because I have limped for so many years favouring the bad knee, the muscles at the back of the knee seem shortened, and I have to work to stretch them. Funnily enough, now that the staples have been removed, I seem to be able to do the exercises with less pain. I probably shouldn't be surprised at that because it is not just one or two staples, but there were 31 over about 20 centimetres. Yesterday I seemed a bit depressed, but now that the staples are out, and it wasn't as bad as I expected, I am in good spirits again. Everyone is very surprised that I have had it done so quickly, including the Doctor. He thought it would be running up to January, and I was prepared for that. After all I had been working up to it for a number of years. This summer it had got to the stage where the knee was bothering me in bed and making it difficult to get to sleep, which was the Doctor's criterion for the time to have it done. Now that it is done, well, it is still bothering me in bed, but less each night, so things are looking up. I keep on Measuring the angle compared to how much I could bend the leg before, and we are not there yet. The medical people measure it from the angle when it is straight, I have always measured the angle between the thigh and the calf. But then they have a large plastic protractor, I have to do it mathematically. More thoughts on this later.