
- Total knee replacement
- Go home
- Start falling down
- Fall down hard enough to squish the dressing hard enough to make Hitchcockian spatter
- Get re-admitted
- Surgery to repair the open wound (looked like a watermelon with a big wedge cut out of it - I have pictures!)
- Go to the nursing home I think fondly of as Bedlam
- Develop a UTI and sepsis - hold at a LaGrange point for about 5 days (no memory except 3 little snippets) until getting back to low-Earth orbit, then touching down five days later.
- Lost 25 pounds
- After a month at Bedlam, off to the surgery center to release pressure on my cervical spinal cord.
- Weakness, numbness, and lack of range of motion, endurance, strength, and sense of touch slowly returning with physical and occupational therapy.
- Lots and lots of physical and occupational therapy.