This turned out to be quite a short chapter...
"Your new brace consists of two parts. The inner one, which you'll have to wear at all times. It is water-proof and is meant to be hidden under your clothes. The inner brace has four different settings. Loose, straight, 45 degree and 90 degree angle… You'll be wearing it in a straight locked position."
Oliver nodded and looked down at the much more pleasant looking brace that they had placed him in after the surgery.
"Okay…"
"The other part of the brace, the outer one, is mostly for when you're well enough to start moving the joint. It has a ROM –RangeOfMotion- function. Which will allow us to let you bend your knee within what we see as safe zone. The outer brace can also be locked at any position, not just straight, 45 and 90 degree angles."
Oliver found this quite boring, but then again… He might have use of this information.
ARROW
His knee wasn't painful as he laid in the hospital bed, it was just sore… Like if he had run 25 miles as fast as he possibly could without any previous training. Yep, he knew what that felt like the day after… It was his definition of sore!
The bad thing about the surgery was that he had to stay at the hospital for about 48 hours afterwards. Just to be safe, and for what some of the doctors described as pain treatment… Fact was, it didn't really work for him. It didn't matter how much painkillers they tried to prop in to him, it didn't really work all that well…
The thing about narcosis making him nauseas was an old thing. His genes just was like that, but the part about painkillers not doing the job for him was no more than three and a half years. It was due to a drug he had been injected with during his time in China, before his time in Russia and certainly before Iraq…
It was meant to make him unable to feel pain that was just 'scratches' compared to serious injuries, but it had only resulted in pain relievers being ineffective on him. What a great job someone had done there!
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"How are you feeling, Oliver?" Diggle asked as he and Felicity entered the room.
Oliver accepted the hug Felicity gave him, before he got around to answering Dig's question.
"Better than I felt the last time!" Oliver told them, "But they still say I have to stay here for 48 hours…"
I hope you enjoyed!