slackdog

I had knee replacement surgery Sept 5th........Had a hip put in about 11 yrs ago and removing staples was pretty easy procedure......but when the nurse started removing my knee staples........it was like FIRE.....like she was ripping them out......had to stopped her 3 times.....I broke out in a sweat and almost became nauseated...that 30 seconds or so was the worse pain of the whole operation......I know the nurse was NOT trying to hurt me......she tried to remove them extremely fast?....I have doc appointment soon and I will let the doc know how painful this procedure was.....he left the room somewhat in a hurry knowing that this was going to be painful........and I'm not blaming the nurse...my thinking is......this is 2007 and these kind of procedures should be relatively painless.......I checked with several other people that had knee replacement surgery and they did not complain about lots of pain when the their staples were removed....... slackdog