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Transcript: Delores Nelson

Using online materials to learn about surgery

[Nelson:]
A lot of time I go on there—if the doctor has prescribed a particular medication, I like to go online and find out exactly what the side effects are and—
[Lindberg:]
Right, [indiscernible] can do that, too. That’s a good idea. We found a bunch of tapes of actual surgery, you know, in the operating room like doing your knee, and I said, “Well, heck, no one is going to watch that. That’s silly.” But it turns out there are lots of people that watch it.
[Nelson:]
Yeah, they do. The University of Washington does that. That’s how I saw —
[Lindberg:]
So you saw it.
[Nelson:]
—the actual knee replacement. I’m glad, I wasn’t awake to know what was going on. It’s really, really very physical. It kind of eased my fear of what was going to happen and how long the healing was, because they told me it would be like really a full six months before the swelling would go down, and being able to walk without a cane, and other things. The progress was really slow, but it’s very well.