keenercam
Loves Mickey!
- Joined
- Jan 18, 2001
Cam, anyone who can eat fresh strawberries at CF instead of cheesecake is on the road to success! I am very impressed. And to have such a tiny amount of birthday cake is also very impressive. I think you did great!
It always blows me away to see the calorie counts at restaurants. No wonder we are an obese nation with the way we eat!
I am so sorry the pain is so bad with PT but you have the right attitude. Have you given any thought to working at home so you can take the painkiller regularly? Hang in there, you are doing great and being a real trooper!
Thank you, Amy! Fortunately, the strawberries at CF are huge and juicy and better than candy, so I definitely did not feel like I was making any kind of sacrifice.
Work is busy enough right now that it just wouldn't be as productive to work from home, so I am only using the pain medicine at night and only if the pain is bad enough that it is keeping me awake.
Last night was the first night of water therapy and it went really well. I was able to walk around in the pool just holding on to the safety bar that goes around the perimeter. Within about 10 minutes of doing that, though, my knee was so swollen that I could hardly bend it because the skin was so tight. It was weird to be able to see the suture lines going across the incision scar because of the swelling when those are not normally visible at all. So, then I did some "resting" and flexing before doing hip strengthening and other standing exercises in the water at the safety bar.
After PT Anthony helped adjust my brace and showed me how to place it so that it properly restricts the knee range of motion. I think everything went really well. I know my knee got a great workout because once I was home, I was barely able to move it or walk on it which I'd done easily just 90 minutes before.
It took a lot of courage to put on a bathing suit and do that stuff in the pool, but since I'll be doing that 2x next week, I'll get over it, I'm sure.
On a happier note, I was down another pound this week and that was with eating all sorts of wonderful foods, just in moderation. I feel like I am back in the groove on my quest. In 4 weeks, I've lost 9 pounds (well, more than that, but I'm using my pre-surgery weight since post surgery was much higher probably due to IV fluids and lying around so much. So, 9 down!!! Not even going to think of how many more I have to go. Just taking it a week at a time.