Yesterday when I woke up, I found that my big bandage felt hard, like a cast. I thought that was strange. Then when I went to remove it, I saw why. Fluid had seeped through the additional wrap, particularly on the back side of my knee, where I didn't notice it before. The actual surgical dressing had been completely soaked, and had dried and hardened. I had to cut it with scissors down the only spot that was dry, then peel it off. As I showered, it seeped a little, and I covered it with a gauze pad held down with a bandaid (and put a bandaid on the other, non-leaky, incision).
By the time I got home from the movie, the gauze was soaked, though I hadn't really walked much and kept my leg elevated at the movie. So I changed it and kept an eye on it for the rest of the night. It didn't bleed through again, so maybe it was just icky because I had removed the bandage, I don't know. We will see what happens when I change it in a bit. I go to the dr tomorrow for a followup.
It does seem looser. I'm just hesitant to bend it much, not because it hurts (it doesn't) but because of its tendency to leak. For the same reason, I haven't really tested it on stairs yet to see if the pain is gone, but my guess is that it is.
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