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Knee day

Today I am hanging around the waiting room at Vanderbilt Hospital waiting to see Linda after her new knee has been installed.    Get here early and wait, it is in many ways like an airport.   A little different crowd than an airport, much fewer professional people and a lot more people eating nervously and going out to get a smoke.   I went out to breakfast after Linda went into the OR, but I could probably bore through plenty of cookies or potato chips just like the rest of the crowd.  

Linda  was in the OR about 3 hours and the doctor talked to me and said they got it finished.  His only comment was about a large amount of arthritis in the joint.   But her knee is done and we get to get healed up and on with life.    The knee has been a real problem for several years and we hope they is now in the past.  

There is no way to be prepared for this waiting activity.    The nervous edge is just brutal,  you hope,  but you do not really know until you get word.  They have a video screen in the waiting area--it seats  at least 50-- and it updates the patient progress.   Word just came thru she is doing well in recovery and another update in an hour.   They put you way under for this stuff and coming back out appears to be quite a laborious process.

So I will happily wait for her to be ready for a visit.   I have her eye glasses with me, she has got to be getting real antsy to get them back on and keep up with all the medical techno jargon that goes on.   So I wait.    This part is not the fun part.  

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