Today I continued on with my routine. I started keeping track of when I did my exercises, CPM machine usage, and medicine dosage in an excel file. You wouldn’t believe how useful this is because after just 3 days its hard to remember whether it was today or yesterday that I took my last dose […]
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This morning I woke up early (around 5:00) and thought that I’d start my exercises first thing. I was given four exercises to do every day. They are:
Ankle Pumps - Just flexing my ankle back and forth.
Quad Sets - Just lying on my back and tightening my upper leg. This forces your knee downward slightly.
Gluteal […]
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We arrived at the hospital at 6:00 AM. We were shown to our room and I was given a gown to wear. If you’ve never worn a hospital gown, it isn’t exactly designed with privacy in mind. After that a nurse came and started an IV. They like to do this before they get you […]
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Today I was running around frantically trying to finish some home remodeling projects that were still outstanding. Knowing that this is your last day to walk for awhile changes how you look at things. I couldn’t help but wonder what I would be doing if I knew that it was my last day to live […]
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Back in high-school, I tore my ACL while wrestling. With my leg weakened, I have subsequently injured it enough that the my meniscus was also torn.
I elected to have a patellar tendon graft done. As I searched the web leading up to my surgery, I found a wide variety of different comments from people saying […]
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