This has been a pretty good week in terms of making progress. My bad knee is so close to being as straight as my good knee. If I put a weighted towel over my heel and lay it off the edge of a table for 15 minutes, I can put both my legs flat on the floor. The only difference is that I can flex my good knee when it's flat on the floor, but I can only get a pathetic little flex out of my bad knee. And my walking is essentially normal now. Tonight for the first time I could walk and swing my bad knee to straight like how normal people walk. I had a mini celebration in my head. Also, I'm working on getting more flexion in my knee, which is coming slowly but surely. I hope to be able to bike by the time I get out of school, so May 19. Now I just want the swelling to go away because it looks ugly. It's tough to make myself do my entire circuit of rehab exercises 4 times a day, but I keep reminding myself that I need to do them in order to be normal again. It helps to read successful acl recovery stories because they all say the same thing: work your butt off in rehab. So that's what I plan to keep on doing.
So I feel like this was a big week for me, as I'm making enough progress to keep me satisfied. For now. I really can't wait until I can bike. I'm for sure doing a post on that day, just to release all of my happiness. Then I'll promptly go for a nice, long ride.
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