I have been sleeping in our recliner in the living room since coming home from the surgery. This is my permanent position. I tried sleeping in bed a couple times, but it just doesn't work. I can only sleep when I'm in the chair and even then its not good sleep. I'm getting sick of it. I really want to roll over!
Had my second session of therapy on Tuesday and my third will be tomorrow. I'm kind of surprised at how things are progressing. I'm noticing the stability of the knee cap already. After the injury in February I was still very unstable at this point in therapy. The knee cap felt vulnerable to re-injury. But right now it feels strong.
Therapy starts with electric stimulation on the quad muscles. About 15 minutes of it. 10 seconds on, 10 seconds off. While it is on I'm contracting the quad muscles. The electric stim helps the muscles to do more. Sort of engages the muscles for me. So, on Tuesday I was able to do a straight leg raise with the electric stim on. I couldn't believe it. I didn't expect to be able to do that for another 2 weeks. I'm not able to do that without the stim though. That will take more time.
My least favorite part of therapy is bending. I'm at 37 degrees with my therapist controlling the bending, but at home I'm probably only getting to 25 or 30. It's so incredibly tight feeling because of all the swelling that when I try to bend it it feels like there's immense pressure from the inside of the joint pushing out.
I'm able to do a little more at home now. I can be up on my crutches for about 30 minutes at a time and then it really starts bothering me. So I'm able to warm up dinner and wash some dishes, fold laundry and change Elliot's diaper.
Baby steps.
Had my second session of therapy on Tuesday and my third will be tomorrow. I'm kind of surprised at how things are progressing. I'm noticing the stability of the knee cap already. After the injury in February I was still very unstable at this point in therapy. The knee cap felt vulnerable to re-injury. But right now it feels strong.
Therapy starts with electric stimulation on the quad muscles. About 15 minutes of it. 10 seconds on, 10 seconds off. While it is on I'm contracting the quad muscles. The electric stim helps the muscles to do more. Sort of engages the muscles for me. So, on Tuesday I was able to do a straight leg raise with the electric stim on. I couldn't believe it. I didn't expect to be able to do that for another 2 weeks. I'm not able to do that without the stim though. That will take more time.
My least favorite part of therapy is bending. I'm at 37 degrees with my therapist controlling the bending, but at home I'm probably only getting to 25 or 30. It's so incredibly tight feeling because of all the swelling that when I try to bend it it feels like there's immense pressure from the inside of the joint pushing out.
I'm able to do a little more at home now. I can be up on my crutches for about 30 minutes at a time and then it really starts bothering me. So I'm able to warm up dinner and wash some dishes, fold laundry and change Elliot's diaper.
Baby steps.
Yay for baby steps Amanda!
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