After six days, I left the apartment for the first time today, only to go to the doctor to make sure I don’t have a blood clot. That is good news by the way, though it still sucks that I haven’t had a decrease in pain over the past week. I am doing a better job of keeping on pill schedule, which is somewhat helping with the pain. Here’s some pictures I took over the past week:
Grotesque (yet blurry) pictures after the jump.
Yeah, it pretty much hurts everywhere that m leg is bruised, particularly when I get up or sit down. Awesome.
JESUS CHRIST — IT’S NOT SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE THAT!!!
Just kidding. A little doctor humor. Your leg looks like someone made an incision, dissected down through the tissues to your meniscus and your ACL, and screwed around with them. Which is the technical description of the surgery you had.
I would expect it to still really hurt. We doctors lie to people and underestimate how much what we do is going to hurt. I think there are 4 reasons: 1. Otherwise, you won’t let us do it. 2. We worry that if we tell you it’s really going to hurt, and for a long time, we will be planting a negative idea. So maybe if we tell you it shouldn’t be too bad, the power of suggestion will take over. . . 3. Most of us have not experienced >95% of the stuff we do to patients — so how should we know? 4. Doing painful things to patients is just part of our daily jobs. I put central lines in people like you weld microprocessors or whatever the hell it is you computer people do. So for us, it’s just another day at the office. It’s easy to forget that your routine work causes real pain to real human beings.
(As an aside, I just copy and pasted this into Word to check for misspellings. Word informed me that my comment is written at a 5th grade level. Interesting, huh?)
Anyway, I really hope you feel better. The only concerning thing to me about this is that um, the people who came to pick you up after surgery saw you naked? Where the hell did you have this surgery? I would have warned you, if THAT WERE NORMAL.
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