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@Nana moon 27 ;
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@Ellejay @DogLoverx3 and everyone else that has kept me sane and happy over the last few weeks. Excuse the novel that follows, but as I have said before, I find it useful to use my thread as a diary to chart my progress .....
Its been a weird week knee-wise. After a very tortuous massage on Monday, when I showered on Tuesday my leg felt decidedly odd in the shower - a bit like when you feel you have put something 'out of joint'. It was not my knee joint, thank goodness, the feeling was at the side and so I rubbed and squeezed and it felt a bit better but still exceedingly peculiar. I got dry and got on the bed to do my scar massage and I must confess the thought crossed my mind 'What if this causes my knee to stiffen again?' - but I got up on the bed and bent my knee and it responded really well and seemed bendier. I was so frantic that it may sieze up, that I spent the whole day doing a few bends every half hour or so. It hurt a bit now and again when I walked, but it seemed to be much easier. Husband caught me doing lunges on the stairs and shouted at me. He said he reckoned scar tissue or something had given and had freed things up a bit and that doing exercises that put weight through my knee was daft. I shouted back that he may be a Doctor (he has a PhD) but he was not a medical doctor ...... then I calmed down and thought that perhaps he may have a point (turns out he
did as my physio agreed with him). Anyway, I took some of the magic diclofenac that the OS gave me, cos I reckoned if something had loosened I didn't want it to swell when I exercised it - and it all seemed a bit looser ... hooray! The down side was that different bits of my leg kept hurting when I walked - first my hamstring, then my quads, then my calf ....... I couldn't wait to get to physio to try and discover what was going on.
She reckons something has given or settled or something and this has freed up my knee a bit and has also caused a lot of dormant muscles etc to be used again, hence the odd aches. No great gain in ROM, but as soon as I got on the couch today (Thursday) I bent my knee very easily straight into my best 'score' from Monday and put another 8 degrees on during the session. Yay for me!
The massage was VERY firm and extremely painful - but lo and behold evidently a fresh crop of bruising has emerged behind my knee in the last 3 days (not from her massage - ha ha!) which she thinks may be as a result of the bleed that bunged everything up. A combination of it slowly dispersing and me using the knee more is making it shift.
She says she wishes she could see inside my knee as she'd love to see what was going on - huh, wouldn't we all? And I was a bit miffed when she stated that she was not surprised that I did not have a regular textbook recovery given the trauma and long term problem with my knee. I just wish somebody could have warned me from the outset that a few hiccups were a possibility - I would have been a lot happier, more patient and less panicky.
I am still a little worried that all the pain when I 'stretch the bend' is around the site of the other large scar on my knee - but there's little I can do about that. I just refuse to push it too much.
She tells me we are going to take things very slowly and gently - bending and bike wheels only until next session. The plan is to increase the bend to a reasonable amount and only work on bending, then let the bend stabilise and only after that start strengthening.
I have about 4 weeks before I have my X rays and see my OS again - ostensibly to be discharged from his care. It will be interesting to see if I have made up for lost time by then, and also if with hindsight he can explain further, what happened and why.
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. Afterwards I went into the spa area, the jacuzzi was wonderful, I positioned my knee by one of those really strong jets - great.
