Good job
@snowdrop. I just read your 3 week post followed by your 23 day post. Good progress over a 2 day period. That’s also a very encouraging trend. Things do tend to start moving along faster as those first few weeks roll slowly by. That is the point I was trying to make when I characterized the first 8 weeks as beginning with 2 REALLY, REALLY rotten weeks, gradually improving to 2 just plain miserable weeks leading up to “short-term” recovery. And from my own experience as well as the many, many posts I have now read, that seems to be a fairly good summarization of the process, even though the specific details are best described in this “chart” previously posted by
@Celle
. But the general trend is still upward and onward.
I had 7 - 10 days of not being able to raise my leg or bend my knee at all without excruciating pain through the middle of my knee, and I was becoming concerned that something unusual may be going on because that was so different from last time. Forgot Rule #1, “Don’t compare knees”. BIG problem with Rule #2, “Be patient”. Then, over about a 5 day period, it improved to the point where I could make leg raises a regular part of my exercise routine. Now, there is almost no pain at all. I think you will begin to see good things happening at a more rapid pace now. You (We) still have a way to go, but we’re on our way.
A possible word of caution. It may be different for you, but although I now walk around the house mostly with neither cane or walker, I still keep my walker by the bed at night. I find that sometimes when I first stand up in the middle of the night, my knees still need a little bit of time to figure out what’s going on, and exactly what they are supposed to do next. I usually tend to postpone actually getting out of bed until there isn’t a lot of time to spare, so the walker still comes in handy now and then.
By the way, I L-O-V-E Egg Salad. I like it in sandwiches and on Saltine Crackers. Now I’m hungry.