Started on the path toward getting my third knee replacement today

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29. I am glad I found you. I am having TKR Feb 9th 2016

I am a 70 year young woman, a widow and live in a 2 story house and the wood bannister is wobbley.
I don't have any way to have a bed downstairs, it is a rec room, tiled, but I couldn't handle the bugs, and
it is mainly used for storage of tubs of many years belongings that I don't know what to do with. i need to
downsize, but after my husband's death 8 years ago, it took me 5 years to wish I was alive.

I am petrified. I don't mind going to a facility to recuperate for 7 to 10 days, and wondered if you know if
medicare will pay for that? Last surgery I had they sent me home with something with Acetamenaphin in it...
I would have been better off taking M & M's..I am afraid they won't give me a proper pain medication, as they
have taken vicodin from everyone. Morphine makes me itch, I believe they have an itching medication to counteract
that..not sure.

Do i have TO HAVE THE DRESSING CHANGED EVERY day the first week?
Do I wake up with a catheter..

Ha, went to "frequently asked questions"..and scared myself to death.

Anything you can tell me will be appreciated.

May I ask a few questions?