3 week review

After three weeks, I feel like I'm miles from where I was on March 14. Here's a list of all the things that are noteworthy:
- no pain, thus no pain pills all week
- ugly yellow bruising is all gone
- can walk around just fine with zero pain and can stand for long periods of time without the knee swelling or starting to hurt, which makes showering much easier
- can stand on just one leg on my bad knee for minutes without falling over or it hurting
- the swelling is down, as you'll see in the pictures below
- because swelling is down, you can start to see some definition around my knee cap and quad
- took the white bandage off, so the wound is open but it is almost fully healed
- almost have all of my extension back, only a few degrees away after warming it up for a couple minutes

Even though there is a lot of good, there is still some bad:
- flexion is not coming back very easily, and I am still having that same sharp pain in the back of my knee when bending it
- knee is really stiff in the morning
- having trouble falling asleep at night
- still some swelling
- I lost a lot of muscle mass and tone, so I have a lot to gain back
- overall, having acl surgery = big hassle in everyday life

So I think I'm coming along nicely, but I want progress to go faster, which I know is something that can't be rushed. It's going to be tough to be patient, that's for sure. I go to the doctor on Tuesday for my second post op visit. He wants it straight by then, so I'm really hoping it is as straight as my good knee by then.

I think that's about it for this week's review. Check back next Sunday!

P.S. - go Butler

Pictures





Right after I took off the white bandage