Almost 1 week out of surgery!

Hi All!

So I am about one week out of surgery and doing great! I have been able to walk more using my crutches and taking less pain meds. The only downside to this whole thing is the lack of sleep I am getting. I normally sleep on my side or my stomach and this surgery requires to wear the leg brace at night so I can only sleep on my back. It feels weird to try to sleep on my side with the brace on. So that and walking insanely slow are my only down sides to this whole process. The pain is not that bad...just take pain meds and it goes away :)

Yesterday I had an appointment with my Doctor to do the first follow-up. The appointment went great! The doctor was really impressed with the range of motion I already have. I can bend my knee to about 90degrees! He said that everything looks great and my x-rays came out perfect. He was really impressed at how well I was recovering to the point where he said I only need PT 2 times a week and not 3...I may still go for 3 just to get better quicker :)

I think what helped was the next day after my surgery I was already doing simple exercises. I started to bend my knee by placing a pillow under my knee and letting gravity pull down my foot to bend my knee. I also keep my leg straight on a bed and flex my quad muscle to start building something strength. Then I sit on the bed and slide my leg side to side on the bed. This exercise is a little difficult cause it uses your inner leg muscle and unfortunately that is where the doc did surgery. My last exercise is to do leg raises. All of this takes about 20mins and I do it 3 times a day. It has gotten a lot easier over the past couple of days :) I am positive that is the reason why my doctor thought I was doing so well :)

Well today I got to leave my apartment and my mom and I went up to the rooftop of my building and sat in the sun building a puzzle. Definitely got a workout trying to get up there and a nice tan :)

Need to get some rest tonight...first day of PT tomorrow afternoon!

Time to watch another movie!