Feeling a lot better these days. I'm getting closer to being able to lift my leg without help from other limbs. I can finally put weight on it, but still can't walk on it. I can't straighten the knee out all the way and I'm to about 74 degrees that I can bend it to. It's not as swollen and sore as it used to be. Physical therapy and doing the exercises has been helping a lot.
I also don't have to take as many drugs. I was taking oxycodone for the pain, but was trying to keep it to around 1 a day (some days right after surgery I had to take more). Now I'm only taking the ibuprofen. Yay!
If you don't follow my instagram or FB, you probably don't know about my trip to PT last week.
My first visit was great, but leaving the hospital, I tried to go out through the revolving door. Bad plan. It was one of the only doors around the elevator that is also close to where the car was parked. It happens to be the front door. There are some other old-fashioned, push-open doors next to it, but they say "emergency exit"... kinda didn't want alarms going off.
So I try the lovely huge-scary-revolving door. Did I mention it was snowing that day? Yeah. So it was wet. wet tile floors + crutches = fall-down-go-boom. I think I was more freaked out than anything. I tried to catch myself with the bad just-had-surgery leg. They took me over to the ER and got some x-rays to make sure nothing was ruined from the surgery. They also didn't charge us anything for the ER visit.
(Everything was fine.)
We went back to PT on Monday this week and I avoided the scary door on the way in. Turns out they put carpet in the scary revolving door! So much easier to go out now! Hopefully no more spills in the door. At least not due to wet tiles. I guess at least something good came from my falling.
I'm thinking about posting another pattern on the shop blog, but I haven't decided what to type up and post. I've kind of neglected the shop, but with so much going on and not really feeling it lately, I'm sure you can understand why.
Anywho....
Check back later. I'm really going to try posting more this year. I've been really bad about it lately.
Ciao
