Today is the 5th day after my surgery and my first real day of physical therapy. I spent about 45 minutes with the therapist doing leglifts, stretches, toe raises with an elastic band and most importantly bending my knee to a 90 degree angle with his help. Thankfully someone gave me the advice to take my pain medication so that it was max effective during the PT session. All things considered, it went remarkably well. I've got really good extension on my knee and getting to 90 degrees didn't hurt too badly. I think that being in really good shape going into this surgery and a pretty nutritionally complete diet, complete with Mona Vie shots daily, is gong to really help me pull through this surgery well. Today, during the therapy session, I was picturing myself being back to running, cycling, exercising better than I ever have. If we are right, and this ACL has been broken for a number of years, then I should be a stronger and better athlete than I've ever been. If I've been in the best shape of my life in recent years, with only a partial right knee, I can only imagine what I can do with a uncompromised knee. I am actually very excited and that is what is fueling my therapy sessions right now.
Here's the other fun part. I am going to try to get off the perkoset today and go back to the lower level pain meds that I had the first day of my surgery. So, I am living on ice today and trying to make it to tonight so that I will have cleared out the oxycodone and can move to the lower level stuff. That is the plan and it would have been better to make this decision on a non-pt day because the therapy session is put some extra strain in today and I sure would like a pain pill right now. Hopefully, this will all be behind us by tomorrow and then hopefully they'll let me move to high strength Ibuprofen where I don't feel so loopy.
Here's to my new knee!
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