Post-surgery fatigue
Bookworm on Mar 20 2013 at 7:59 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
It’s amazing how tiring even the most limited surgery is. I’ve been hopping about today on one crutch, getting done most of the stuff that I needed to get done, but I am just wasted. I feel as if I walked 1,000 miles, instead of just, at most, a mile, or a mile and a half. I suspect it’s a combination of the extra energy I’m burning with the crutch (my whole body, not must my legs, is doing the walking) plus the fact that my body is using a good bit of energy to heel itself. I’m also probably still trying to shake off the last of the general anesthetic hiding in my brain’s and my body’s nooks and crannies.
Whatever the reason, I’m just inches or minutes away from complete immobility. I want to write more. I just can’t. I will try to write tomorrow. If I can just prop open my eyelids….
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An anesthetic is the equivilent of jet lag without a vacation.
Be kind to yourself – sleep it off, do as little as possible, drink lots of water, heal and a speedy recovery.
Sadie gave excellent advice.
Request #1: Hey, they didn’t happen to give you a DVD of the probe’s-eye view of the surgery, did they? The reason I ask is because I had a boss several years ago who missed work one day to have arthroscopic surgery on his knee, and he mentioned that they gave him a really cool DVD showing the whole surgery, and said that he’d bring it in to show us. And I imagined what it would be like to see the world as a tiny little probe inside of a knee, with a camera sitting neatly between two tiny little power saws: “Ddddddrrrrwwwwwwssshhhhttt! Ddddddrrrrwwwwwwssshhhhttt! Ddddddrrrrwwww-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-rrrwwwrrrssshhhttt! Eeeeerrwwwwwllllllllssshhhhh!” Like something out of The Matrix. It would have been so cool to knock off at 4:00 on a Friday, pull the shades, break out the beer and popcorn, and have an office viewing of Friday the 13th Part XXVII: Craig’s Knee. Alas, he naver brought it in, and I’ve felt cheated ever since. Now, I know that you’re not much into posting pictures of yourself, but maybe for inside-the-knee you might make an exception? Just a thought. It’d definitely be different!
Request #2: (The more important request.) Get better, will ya?
Increase your uptake of protein, Bookie. Send Herr Bookworm to the health food store for some high grade protein powder, such as Met-rex. Eat more, small meals (say four, or even five) emphasizing fiber and protein (30 grams or thereabouts) The protein is for healing, the fiber is for avoiding post surgery complications with (ahem) elimination
You should try for 100 120 grams of protein to rebuild your body. This is where protein powders are invaluable — you can knock down 50 grams of whey protein, eqivalent to 60 grams of beef protein (12 oz of beef BTW) and it feels like you’ve hardly ingested anything
Chocolate. Lots and lots of chocolate. ;-)
Spartacus: I have the DVD. I’m just too squeamish to view it.
Call me Lennie: Protein powder is already in the shelf. I use it as part of my martial arts training.
Mike: I am so on that already. I’ve been stocking up chocolate for just such an emergency.
Chocolate as a stimulant wouldn’t be such a bad thing, and the sugar will be well needed.
Eventually though Book, you’ll have to take a more internal perspective on martial arts, as the wear and tear of external strength based arts will take its toil. The more so the older one gets.
Walkers are easier to use than crutches. Especially for women (and older men) who do not have a lot of upper arm strength.
From the viewpoint of one who has survived two knee replacements and has a spouse who had a broken ankle. Yes it makes one look older but……
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