Thursday, December 29, 2011

Day 13: My Doctor!!!

I had another appointment yesterday and it was with my doctor! Yay! It was great to see him.
He said that everything went great with surgery. The loose body was too big to remove during the arthroscopy procedure, so he had to take it out later... I'm guessing through the lateral release incision.
He told me to start putting weight on it as long as the leg was straight and gave me permission to shower!!! So I went to my parents' house last night because they have a walk-in shower. They put a patio chair in the shower for me and one outside the shower to rest my foot on.
It felt wonderful!
I'm going back tonight for another one. :)
My doctor also told me to start therapy, so we scheduled the first one for later in the afternoon. I'm so happy to have started therapy. This is a big step towards recovery and getting out of this stinking chair! My therapist worked on quad muscle strength and started bending. Very, very slight bending. And at the end he even had me walking on it! I was in the locked brace though, so that I didn't accidentally bend it and I also had my crutches just in case.
Now I have to get the nerves to work on these exercises from home.

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