{"id":3462,"date":"2009-03-13T20:43:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T03:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2009\/03\/13\/aftermath\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T20:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:07:03","slug":"aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2009\/03\/13\/aftermath\/","title":{"rendered":"Aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The surgery was fine. I had no issue with anesthesia. Yay me!<\/p>\n<p>Turned out that I had <em>two<\/em> tears in my medial meniscus. One of them had actually bent in on itself, so the cartilage was folded under. The surgeon also smoothed a little of the cartilage under my kneecap, though since it doesn&#8217;t grow back he didn&#8217;t want to do too much. Removal of cartilage such as the meniscus sets the stage for arthritis. Oh, I also have some arthritis in the area already from walking on this untreated for nearly two years. Ah well. On the upside, having the removal done instead of a repair means I&#8217;m off crutches within two weeks instead of on them for four.<\/p>\n<p>Bean is fine. The babysitter arrived while she ate an early lunch, so she knew Mommy and Daddy were leaving. I managed to put her down for a nap at 11:30 a.m.; then we left. She slept two hours! When I got home she wasn&#8217;t clingy or upset. She&#8217;d had a grand time with A and enjoyed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orientaltrading.com\/ui\/browse\/processRequest.do?demandPrefix=12&#038;sku=58\/4007&#038;mode=Searching&#038;erec=5&#038;D=slice&#038;Ntt=slice&#038;Ntk=all&#038;Dx=mode%2bmatchallpartial&#038;Ntx=mode%2bmatchallpartial&#038;y=0&#038;N=0&#038;requestURI=processProductsCatalog&#038;x=0&#038;sd=23+Pc.+Just+Slice+It%21+Play+Food+Set\">new toys<\/a> I&#8217;d left for her. She was curious about my crutches &#8212; indeed, she wants to walk off with them. She also wanted to crawl on top of me as I laid on the couch, but we told her I have a big ouchie boo-boo. She seems to understand this a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Husband took good care of all of us. Two friends brought over a little care package of yummy bath goodies, a knitting magazine, and magazine cookbood for slow cookers and casseroles. The pictures are fun to look at. I can&#8217;t quite focus my eyes. The surgeon called to see how I&#8217;m doing, so my work here is done! I&#8217;ve been dozing on the couch in a haze of hydrocodone. I&#8217;m too tired to resist its serenade, so I&#8217;ll sign off here.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and happy anniversary, Husband. We&#8217;ve been married four years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surgery was fine. I had no issue with anesthesia. Yay me! Turned out that I had two tears in my medial meniscus. One of them had actually bent in on itself, so the cartilage was folded under. The surgeon also smoothed a little of the cartilage under my kneecap, though since it doesn&#8217;t grow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,34,16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-motherhood","category-nature","category-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13691,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions\/13691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}