Time for an update, I'm just doing this as I can.

As far as Anna and Denise are concerned I believe things have gone much better than I had originally thought they would.  Anna's behaviors, her morning routines and transition to bed at night; for the times when it is just Anna, Denise and I in the house I think it's going well. Nights are actually better, heck I'd say from an overall standpoint nothing is worse. 

Denise might not agree with this and I plan on having her add her own post to this blog shortly.

Night time has always been an issue. The problem(s) that I see at night and what I thought might get worse with Anna's care, all of a sudden I'm thinking it might be me that causes issues, how I manage and deal with Anna...

We just got through our first full weekend after my surgery where I was entirely out of the picture care wise.  Weekends in general are just long, Anna becomes bored and we constantly are scrambling to find something of interest to her. This last weekend was fairly typical, Denise did have to manage everything on her own.  We made it with no real melt downs, and I will assume that if you read this you know what a special needs child's "melt down" is.

Denise and I are both tired.

So perhaps this will eventually become one of those blogs where in the end it was a waste of time and energy; I had hoped that I could pass along some insight into how our care transition change affected Anna while I recovered. I'm not sure I know yet but we are only 1 week into this and we still have a way to go.

Although I don't want this to be about me I think some input on what has happened should be written down, it will have an effect on this story.

It's been one week today since the surgery. Prior to this I had been reading about knee replacements, what would be done, how long recovery should take, where you should be at this point post surgery, ect.... 

Nothing I read or saw on Youtube really was anything like what I am going through now, it kind of was a waste of time I'm seeing now.

It turned out that along with having bone on bone osteoarthritis, I had been living with some tears in both my Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) and Posterior Cruciate Ligament (PCL), the two main ligaments of the knee that keep the joint stable. I was not aware that these were issues at all prior to my surgery. Anyway, these ligaments were repaired (they were not completely torn) along with the joint replacement. The reason I am mentioning this is because the recovery timeline for the ligament repair is longer than the joint replacement alone.

I'm dealing with something much more involved than just a "simple" knee replacement.  My original 6 to 8 week recovery timeline most likely will be longer.  This is going to be another impact to Denise, Anna and myself.

It has been a long week and it is only the first of more to come.

Lastly, does anyone read these? I have no idea if what I'm putting down is being seen so if you know who I am and have my contact information can you just shoot me a note saying yes you see these? Or if you don't say yeah I see it and maybe tell me where you are.

I'd appreciate that thanks.