post op day 3

Well, I'm one more day closer to being normal. Sleeping was kinda rough last night because I'm tired of sleeping on my back, so at around 3:30 I moved to my right side and put a pillow between my legs. Then I was able to get some good sleep. The day was much like yesterday in that it involved using the CPM machine for 6 hours, sleeping a lot, and doing my basic therapy exercises - working on firing my quad muscle and straight leg lifts. I don't start legit physical therapy until Monday. I managed to get up to 80 degrees flexion on the CPM machine during my final 2 hour session, so I'm only 10 degrees away from my goal of 90 by Friday. And it didn't hurt as bad as yesterday, which is really encouraging. As far as extension, I'd say I'm about 5 degrees away from being as flat as my good knee. I took all my bandages and stuff off to let my knee breath for a little bit which felt sooooo good. I was pleasantly surprised that I have almost no bruising like what I've seen in other people's knees/legs after ACL surgery. I touched my kneecap area to find that it is mostly still pretty numb. I took a picture so I'll post that. I'm still taking 2 pain pills every 4 hours so I haven't made any progress in that area but I'm gonna work on that the next couple days, taking less pain pills. Which will hopefully allow me to go to the bathroom, because I haven't gone #2 since Sunday night. I guess pain pills really do make you constipated.

My setup in my parent's bedroom


Side view of my two knees