[Tbear]

It will be 3 weeks tomorrow. I do PT 3 times a week with a PT person and the same exercises myself the other 4 days of the week.

I can flex my knee 116 degrees; with external pressure from the PT person it now goes to 121 degrees. ( grit my teeth and to the max of my pain tolerance ). A long way from 70 degrees the day I got home from the hospital.

The incision looks quite healed and much like the scar I will have going forward although it will probably blend as time goes on.

Walking exclusively with a cane; trying to re-learn my normal stride without a limp is a work in progress. Through the normal range of motion when I walk, the knee sort of feels like it has an ace bandage wrapped around it - not painful, just slightly stiff- just enough to impede a normal gait.

Tylenol is the pain med I primarily take as needed.

The knee is still swollen; Although the swelling has subsided, it still has quite a ways to go and I expect it will take another month or more to even begin to look normal again.

I ice it after the two exercise periods I do every day as well as 2 or 3 random times during the day.

I have another week of in home therapy and will then be going to an outside group - Florida Rehabilitation Specialists in Lady Lake.

I'm cleared to go in my pool now so hopefully as the warmer weather sets in this week that will be a treat for me...

This hasn't been a fun process, but I truly think when its over I will be quite happy. Before my surgery, I couldn't retract my knee more than 114 degrees under any circumstances. - and I'm already a 121 and hopefully headed for 130+.

Until next time -

Regards from Tbear