So as they have been the last 2 weeks, my days are pretty similar. But on Thursday I went to see my doctor, doctor Wilson, for a checkup so he could see how my knee is healing. The first thing he said when he walked in was, "That looks bad." Apparently, he REALLY wants my knee completely straight. But aside from that, he said my incision is healing nicely and the swelling is about where it should be ten days after surgery. So he gave me an exercise to do with another person where the other person presses down on my quad and pulls up on my heel, forcing my leg to straighten. It hurts a lot, but I can tell it's a good pain and it works really well. I feel like doing that every day for a couple weeks will get it straight. Oh and I got fitted for a sports brace, so soon enough I'll be able to ditch the big bulky brace and wear the new one. I'm pumped. Back to my normal routine at home, I continued doing my exercises 3-4 times a day as well as using the CPM machine for half hour spurts just to get my knee warmed up for the exercises. Those are going pretty well, except for flexion. It hurts in a bad way, not the way it hurts when I'm doing the straightening exercise. It hurts like in a nerve pain, but I can't feel any pressure in my knee area at all so I'm not sure what's wrong or if it's even working at all. My other exercises, straight leg lifts and partial squats, aren't bad at all. Then I ice often during the day to work on getting the swelling down, which is still very noticeable. If that goes down, getting range of motion back will be much easier. Then today I went to therapy and received three new exercises: calf raises and stretching, one that involves putting my leg on the wall and trying to bend it that way, and one where I lay on my stomach and let gravity work on making my leg straight. I told Mary, my therapist, my worries about bending my leg and she said it's most likely something with the swelling. So unless the swelling subsides a lot and it still hurts, she said not to worry about it. As far as pain, I have none unless I walk around for 5-10 minutes. Then I just need to sit down for a minute so the pain goes down a little. I can put full weight on my knee and I am totally off pain pills. I'm only taking a muscle relaxer now. I think that's it for stuff about my knee.
I'd like to give a couple shout outs. One to 3 people that I know for sure are reading my blog: Jordan, Katherine, and Lydia. Your readership means a lot to me. And the other to the Butler basketball team. Keep kicking butt in the tourney.
Well, I think I'm finally done with this post. Check back tomorrow night!
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