lilbit
junior member
Hi there everyone,
I too have been a lurker here for months, and wish to thank you for helping me to come to my senses when working with this knee. At first I set myself back by treating this injury as a gym workout! The knee soon put a stop to that when it swelled to tree trunk proportions.
I am in my tenth week, and am now in the process of packing up my elderly mother's house, as she has been diagnosed with dementia, and is in a retirement residence. The closing date looms, and the buyer is pressured by their closing date as well.
Thank to your advice here, I do periodically elevate and ice (frozen peas have become my new best friends). A few friends have come to take away boxes to the charities - packrats keep everything!
I continue to take Tylenol 1, and am also using Aleve twice a day. There still seems to be some internal swelling. At 4 weeks I had about 80 degrees flexion and 15 degrees extension. With gentle stretching and bending, that has increased to 90 degrees flexion and 5 degrees extension, but I have been stuck there for a few weeks.
With this workload, and having to be vertical for as many periods of time as I can manage during the day, I am not optimistic about improvement anytime soon. This. however, is not a choice, and my sister lives 3 hours away. She comes as often as she can, but it's still a huge responsibility.
Every couple of hours I sit in that chair and do slides and extensions, then ice, but not as long as I would like to. At night I elevate all night long as well, which I hope is the right thing to do.
Congratulations to all of you who have managed to do so well with ROM, and to those of you who share my boat, I extend my understanding and sympathies.
I am supposed to return to work the third week of April, but can extend that if necessary.
My surgery was January 4th, 2016 - New Year, New Knee!!
I too have been a lurker here for months, and wish to thank you for helping me to come to my senses when working with this knee. At first I set myself back by treating this injury as a gym workout! The knee soon put a stop to that when it swelled to tree trunk proportions.
I am in my tenth week, and am now in the process of packing up my elderly mother's house, as she has been diagnosed with dementia, and is in a retirement residence. The closing date looms, and the buyer is pressured by their closing date as well.
Thank to your advice here, I do periodically elevate and ice (frozen peas have become my new best friends). A few friends have come to take away boxes to the charities - packrats keep everything!
I continue to take Tylenol 1, and am also using Aleve twice a day. There still seems to be some internal swelling. At 4 weeks I had about 80 degrees flexion and 15 degrees extension. With gentle stretching and bending, that has increased to 90 degrees flexion and 5 degrees extension, but I have been stuck there for a few weeks.
With this workload, and having to be vertical for as many periods of time as I can manage during the day, I am not optimistic about improvement anytime soon. This. however, is not a choice, and my sister lives 3 hours away. She comes as often as she can, but it's still a huge responsibility.
Every couple of hours I sit in that chair and do slides and extensions, then ice, but not as long as I would like to. At night I elevate all night long as well, which I hope is the right thing to do.
Congratulations to all of you who have managed to do so well with ROM, and to those of you who share my boat, I extend my understanding and sympathies.
I am supposed to return to work the third week of April, but can extend that if necessary.
My surgery was January 4th, 2016 - New Year, New Knee!!