Happy one month of having a stranger ligament in my knee and happy Ash Wednesday.
I woke up with this rat nest on my head, so I pulled a Kelly Kapowski and washed my hair. I don't wash my hair every day because it dries out quicker, and since I don't have anywhere to get ready for beside PT, I've lost track of hair washing days. I was able to fall back asleep after the early morning hair washing, then got ready for PT.
It was a gross rainy day out so thank God I had PT, otherwise I'd just stay in bed and be lazy again.
PT session was another 1.5hours of hard work! What's cool is that Kim and I always match during our sessions. Last week we did pink and black, Monday we both wore gray on top, black on bottom, today we paired gray with green. But not your usual green, but the middle part of a green onion green. It's not easy... I started off with 10 minutes on the bike. I face Michigan Ave when I bike, my view is St. Mary's Church. I saw a sign on the side of the church saying there was noon mass. I thought it was perfect if my session went as long as it did on Monday because then I could just go straight there after. After biking, Kim had me walk to the back to the total gym apparatus. While walking, she started to critique my walking without the brace. She told me to pick up my left leg higher when I'm done with my step, and to move my right arm more. It was so Miss J of her to tell me that. I felt like I was walking down the runway with Miss J making his critiques, then I realized ANTM is on tonight! I hope it's the makeover show. Here's the total gym and how high the platform is set up for laying squats:
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| the area where I do all my stepping and balancing |
After total gymming, she had me foam roll my legs, ending with the inner thigh move that I hate doing if there are guys there. While rollin with the homies, Kim did a quick assessment and asked if I had any complaints or feelings on what activities I feel restricted about. Pretty much told her that I have started to take the stairs at the gym, and that since I'm doing more leg movements, I feel random tingly sensations, but I think it's because I'm waking up parts of the leg that have been unused for a month. I did 3 lines of stool scoots, 3 laps of side steps with the red theraband, and 2 laps of monster walks. After those, she had me lay on the table. Today she spent an extra long time cocoa butter massaging my scars and patella. Did a deep massage of the build up of scar tissue too, which she mentioned has definitely gone down since I first complained about it. Every 6 visits, measurements are done and muscle strength is tested. My knee bend is up to 148 degrees naturally! Even when we were doing manual knee bends, I was talking comfortably with Kim about gyms in the area, yoga, blah blah blah, while my heel was touching my butt each time she bent it! No more lamaze breathing!
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| the trampoline device that I throw the ball against while standing on left leg on foam pad We went over the robobrace and whether or not I was ready to stop wearing it. I told her I had learned my lesson of not wearing it too soon after my last surgery after my foot had slipped on ice when I got out of my car which caused a weird tweak in my knee. If I had a brace on it, wouldn't have felt that lingering pain. Dr. Edwards said the brace should be worn for a month, so technically I don't have to wear it anymore. I love my 10 min icing sessions at the end because it's my time to just relax. A couple weeks ago when Goldie Hahn was on Oprah, she said her key to being happy is to take at least 10minutes out of your day and sit in silence. No distractions, no thoughts, just 10 straight minutes of relaxation. That's what my icing session does for me, I don't even feel the cold covering 1/3 of my knee. After my session, headed to Old St. Mary's to celebrate Ash Wednesday, where I ran into my Godmother, Auntie Charito! It was nice because I was able to reflect and pray for all the important people in my life as well as what's in store for my future. I decided to give up the 3 "S's": Shopping (except for food), Sweets (except for yogurt- the activia/dannon kind), and all things Sour cream and onion! |
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| Did you get your ashes today? |
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| 17 minute mile? I'll take it! |
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| the machine I should never use again, it's bad for the ACL! Later on in the night I went to pick up Purv to hit up  |
On my way back home, hit up Chinatown to buy me some Ramen so I could cook it at home! Had a couple hours to chill at home, then watched some ANTM (it was the makeover episode!) and da bulls. I got scurred when Boozer got injured in the 4th quarter because they kept showing him fall onto his ankle with a weird knee bend, all in slow motion. Prior to the surgery I would keep reliving the moment when my knee buckled anytime I closed my eyes. It was so annoying and would just make me so mad at myself for getting injured trying to be stupid. I brought this on myself and now I'm suffering the consequences. As positive as I am, it's getting difficult dealing with this limited movement, trying to look at every little improvement as a huge success. But I admit, it's really hard!
Clark and Belmont to get her nose ring changed. This was my first time going out in public sans the robobrace. I put on my wide leg jeans so the material would rub against my scars. I've been so tired of putting tape and dressings over them because I don't like the feeling of taking the tape off my skin since the whole are is still more tender than tingly. Was a nice late night outing, but the definite hilite was when we went to pay to park. Didn't realize it was already past 9pm, so we double checked the box. Purv goes, "no payment required until mario...What's mario?" So I took a look at it too, for a while. Then realized it was Mar10. (see left) hehe, typical us. Moral of the story, we didn't have to pay to park. Thanks Mario! Ended the night with a cocoa butter massage and ice session. That's how I celebrated my one month anniversary of the surgery!
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| one month anni pic! (day 28) |
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