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Discharged from home PT today. I started at 60/10 and ended at 95/0. Outpatient PT starts Tuesday. I am disappointed at the first number, thrilled with the second. This is where the word “patience” should be inserted but I am soooo bad at application of that word to myself. I am making beds, doing dishes and walked a mile today....
OS is pleased with me. Saw him Tuesday. He gave me my “Go back to jail” paperwork ( otherwise known as return to work-August 19.)
I see him next 2 weeks after I go back to work.
OS told me I was way ahead of his other patients and that he was surprised. He thought my knee was a “9 out of 10” rank of awful when he opened it up. But....credit goes to him as he corrected it to normal. It is much easier to rehab”normal” as I have not had normal for 20 years. He wants me at 110/0 for total success. PT goals are 120/0. I can play pickleball after the second week of September.
OS was displeased with me since I had been driving for 10 days. Official ok is a month post surgery. (Monday)
Evidently, studies have been done that braking reactions are compromised regardless of the knee doing the braking for at least 4 weeks. Said insurance company would cancel me if I had an accident. I grinned and said I would double my following distances. I am just driving neighborhoods....no freeways.
Is your cellulitis clearing?
I want you to hang in there. Your road may be long but the end is out there....maybe just not visible yet.
I am going to keep checking on you until you can see the end of the road.....
Talk soon. Deanna