day 3

so had PT yesterday, besides taking a look at it, nothing much happened, while I was zonked out and in some pain, still disappointed nothing really happened. at home I'm having better success managing the pain, plus I took the immobilizer off when I am just hanging out, that and I took a shower sitting in the tub with the water coming over me, that was sweet. I know not to rush it so trying not to be stupid when having the brace off but man I needed a shower, so moved very slowly. also icing it pretty often and doing ankle pumps and quad sets, i find if I have the right amount of vicodin in my system I can do the quad sets with minimum discomfort, other times if I am trying to do a set or a leg lift it feels like my staples are going to pop out.

i waited until everything dried nicely before putting new sterile gauze over the staples and wrapping with an ace bandage. Huge storm coming up the east coast +10" due around boston, so am glad that i got the shovels out, got the blower working and salt buckets set, however, need more gas and it's a 2 cycle so have to work out the ratio and explain it to my wife so she can square it away.

I having the brace off feels great and I am handing my leg off the end of the chair and letting gravity give it its flex back, can get to about 90 degree okay. My first ACL recon, left knee about 14 years ago, the rehab sucked, mostly because there was no follow through from my then orthopedist, so i got started late, and getting my range of movement back was painful and it took everyone in the office sitting on me and a towel in my mouth to bend my leg back, so wrong, so without actively bending anything letting it flex. feel much better today, more mobile on the crutches and my head is back in the game a bit.