post op day 8 - first PT session

I finally did something new today. I got out of the house to go to my first physical therapy session. I'm happy to finally have someone look at me and tell me what to do because then I feel like I'm making progress. Basically all that happened is she asked me a bunch of questions on how I'm doing, when my knee hurts, what I've been doing since surgery in terms of exercises, and what my goal is for rehab. She measured my degree of bend to be 90 degrees, which is great, but it was quite a struggle to get there. My good leg is at 145 so I've got some work to do. I also can slightly hyper-extend my good knee, but she said my bad knee is perfectly straight, I just can't get it to hyper-extend like my good knee because I don't have enough muscle/I have to reteach my quad muscles to fire, or fully contract. Then she told me to keep icing it often but take breaks and gave me 4 exercises to do that are different from what I've been doing. So at this point, I feel pretty encouraged because she also said that I'm doing very well for being only 8 days out of surgery. I just have to be diligent about my exercises because slacking is only going to hurt me. Speaking of which, I should probably do those right now. Gotta go.

Here's a picture I took this morning of the bruising (the yellow part)