I had my left knee cleaned of a flap in my meniscus (SP?) yesterday at 1130 am. As soon as the spinal block wore off and I could walk it hurt less than it did on the way into the surgical center.

Since I had a spinal tap instead of a genearal, when I got home I ate pizza for supper and had two popcicles and a bowl of strawberries, ice cream and whoop cream.

The sheet they sent home with me said it might take up to 12 hours for the medicine to all wear off so I kept waithing for it to begin hurting.

So far it does not. I can barely feel any pain at all.

There is a little pool of some kind of liquid in there though that squishes from one place to another if I bend it just right. It squeeks rather loudly almost like a dog's squeaky toy. I hope that does not mean anything.

I'm going to go eat breakfast and read the paper. I wonder now why I didn't have this done fifteen years ago when I first started having knee pain.

Tom W

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