I’m trying to summon up the energy to make something to eat. I had knee replacement surgery and have been on my own after the first five days when my adult son and daughter took turns to stay here. I’m ok on my own, I planned before hand and have some batch cooked meals in the freezer and had groceries delivered etc but it’s very tiring when in pain just to walk around the house to prepare food, tidy up etc.
Today I work up late, one of the annoying things about this surgery is that the pain tends to be worse when lying in bed so sleep is often elusive. I then stayed in bed for a couple of hours reading and messing around on my iPad before getting up to put some washing on. That is now in the dryer waiting for me to get it out. I also made a batch of muffins to use up some manky bananas, sitting down of course but had to potter around getting the ingredients ready.
Then my most exciting time of the day, into the lounge, put tv on and do the very painful exercises necessary to get the metal in my leg working properly! Finally after another hour relaxing with some crochet I went to lie down on the bed to ice and elevate my leg.
Now I need my tea, put the dishwasher on and fold up the dry washing. I know exactly what I’m going to eat, some ready made filled pasta shapes with a sachet of cheese sauce. I’ve not had it before but hopefully it will be edible as there will be enough to heat up for tomorrow. Then I guess it will be time for bed!
My days are so boring at the moment, I can’t drive for another couple of weeks and the weather has been either raining or icy so I’ve only been out to go back to hospital to get the staples taken out. A good day is when I have a visitor!
I need my other knee doing but I’m hoping to have that done in May when I might be able to sit in my garden.