Rosa 'Alissar Princess of Phoenicia'.
Thank you Maggi, David and Lesley for your kind remarks. 31 days since surgery and recovery continues, albeit glacially slowly. Still on industrial doses of painkillers, still not sleeping much. I think I was prepared for the pain but what surprised me was the effect on other bodily functions. Completely lost my appetite, and that is only just beginning to come back. Strange when the high spot of the day is a BM. Still not allowed to drive for a couple more weeks, but I am off the morphine so have been able to enjoy my first glass of wine and my first pint of beer for three weeks (not simultaneously).
Morphine does strange things: I think it was in week two when I woke up at 6:30 one morning and my brain was frantically composing one-liners. I must have been a gag writer for Groucho Marx in a previous life. Try these: "I've had a really good night, but this wasn't it". " They say it is post-operative pain; if it was post-opera pain I would be on my tenth pass through the Ring Cycle by now". " People ask me how I remain so cheerful; I say 52% voted for cheerful so I'm going along with it even though I voted the other way". " People ask me if my glass is half full or half empty. I say it doesn't matter as it's only water".
Hey ho, it had better be worth it in the long term.
Lesley, I was interested to hear of your experiences. But my understanding is that once the cartilage in the knee is gone it's gone for good. I hope you can get away without surgery for a while, but it may be the only option in the medium to long term.
David, not entering for any marathons! The surgeons say I should avoid high impact exercise in perpetuity, so no running. But I look forward to some long walks in the months to come.
This thread is meant to be about roses, so enough of my tribulations!
