Arrrgh!!!

Well, 41 days after my knee went bad, I'm driving again. We went to exercise today. YEA!! But, the knee is not yet healed. It's slightly less painful than it was the day it went bad, but it still hurts to rise from a chair after I've been sitting for a while, and I have to be careful how I do steps.

The Physician's Assistant at the Orthopedic center thinks I have a medial collateral ligament sprain. She also thinks that the three weeks of immobilization helped that sprain. But, that immobilizing wrecked havoc on the hamstrings on that leg. I'm going to physical therapy to stretch the hamstrings out. I've seen improvement every day for the past week.

I was timid at first. My therapist was surprised that I wasn't driving. She asked if the PA had said not to drive. I began to realize that it was time to quit babying the knee and get back to life.

My gait is a bit odd, but the therapist assures me that it will come back. Sitting for three weeks, trying not to further damage the right knee, I put a lot of demands on the left side of my body. She has me working on all the major groups of muscles from the waist down, to re-create muscle support for balance and walking. I think I have about two or possibly three weeks left of therapy and then it will be time to get back to all my chores. Boo! HISS!

If at the end of the three weeks my knee still hurts, we will probably do an MRI. I find it odd that they have chosen to wait to see what's wrong, but my knee seems to be healing. We'll have to trust that they know what they are doing, and hope the knee continues to heal.

The end of therapy will put me at just about six weeks from my visit to the doctor. Bogie....did you say that WS was told to wait it out for six weeks, and then another two? That seems to be the magic number.