Say "ouch" twenty-three times; once for each staple removed today. It's a celebration however as the knee feels much more flexible without pieces of metal holding it together. Steri-strips now hold it and they will fall off and then the real healing process will begin. It's a good day!
Good days have a whole different meaning after a surgery. This time I have more muscles aches and less actual knee pain. The muscle aches come from exercise such as walking all over the offices at the doctors, from the treatment room, to the xray lab, to the exam room. No biggie for a normal knee, but this one is only two weeks out of surgery.
All positive reports today and I am ready to start outpatient physical therapy on my left knee as soon as I can be put back on Dave's schedule at Tamarack. I feel so lucky to be going back to work with someone who I think recognized how hard I worked on the right knee. Not being an athlete, I often chuckled at some of the things he said, but I tried to get my knee where it needed to be and he helped me with preparing the left as well as helping the right to heal. I started to look forward to those physical therapy sessions and that's saying a lot for a real couch potato. It seems strange that I should discover physical exercise at the age of 66.
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Yeah Barb! Keep up the great the work. You'll be going on long walks with me soon!
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