Do I understand you correctly, that outside of the scarring, the rest of the TKR results were good? If so, I am happy for you. After my second TKR also on the machine before I left the hospital, I went to a different nursing home. I expected to use the machine there, but when the she saw my ROM already, she didn't order it. However on day 1 there, they measured my ROM at something in the mid 120's. But I was having calf pain and to be sure I didn't have a clot, I did no PT over the weekend until they could confirm there was no clot. So after lying in bed for 3 days, I was concerned that I had lost some of my good 120+ degrees of bend. So when I started PT again on Tuesday, I joking asked how much did I lose. His response: you're now up to 132 degrees! As far as I can ascertain, that is about where I was pre-surgery! Now that I have monotonic dystophy, I need that 132 degrees to get up from the floor though I still need help as the legs are weak, but I can at least get my R leg under me and get ready to stand.
When you fly to Mayo, where do you fly from and where is your plane change? I fly out of Lancaster airport which is just down the street (2 miles) to Dulles, then to Minneapolis and then Rochester. But coming home the last time, they cancelled the last flight back to Lancaster as they never told us that airline had changed hands and the FAA had not yet approved them flying into Lancaster. ! So instead of a 45 minute flight, they DROVE me and another passenger right to our front doors! But that was an hour wait at first then a 3 hr drive.