aside from good news, that's the best you could hope for
Had my 5-week checkup today. It went... okay. Nothing's wrong, but I'm not healing quickly. If I haven't started making quicker progress by my next monthly appointment it'll be cause for concern; right now I'm just healing slowly, like people sometimes do.
My quads are active, but should be more active. My range of motion is increased, but should be better. The swelling has gone down, but not enough. I need to work harder in PT, and PT will be instructed to work me harder. (More pain killers available on demand.) More stretching, more flexing, more hilariously staring at my leg and thinking about it working. No, really, that's advanced medical advice.
I was hoping to get more firm expectations about progress, when I'll be off crutches, when I'll be able to unlock the brace, etc, but it's to early for that. I have a couple of thing to try and look forward to, functional goals for the next check in, but no big milestones in the next month.
The only actual bad part of the appointment was the guy who readjusted my brace. He reset it very differently, very not-right-ly, and when I told him it hurt he said it was exactly the way it always had been, and that it was probably pain from surgery. I tried to explain that surgery was five weeks ago and I know the difference between normal discomfort and something being wrong, this being decidedly the latter. He said it was fine and walked out. (Oh yes, someone's supervisor is getting a letter.) By the time I bused home I was having muscle spasms and couldn't put weight on the foot. I've readjusted it back to liveable, but... ouch.
So... work: there's lots ahead.
My quads are active, but should be more active. My range of motion is increased, but should be better. The swelling has gone down, but not enough. I need to work harder in PT, and PT will be instructed to work me harder. (More pain killers available on demand.) More stretching, more flexing, more hilariously staring at my leg and thinking about it working. No, really, that's advanced medical advice.
I was hoping to get more firm expectations about progress, when I'll be off crutches, when I'll be able to unlock the brace, etc, but it's to early for that. I have a couple of thing to try and look forward to, functional goals for the next check in, but no big milestones in the next month.
The only actual bad part of the appointment was the guy who readjusted my brace. He reset it very differently, very not-right-ly, and when I told him it hurt he said it was exactly the way it always had been, and that it was probably pain from surgery. I tried to explain that surgery was five weeks ago and I know the difference between normal discomfort and something being wrong, this being decidedly the latter. He said it was fine and walked out. (Oh yes, someone's supervisor is getting a letter.) By the time I bused home I was having muscle spasms and couldn't put weight on the foot. I've readjusted it back to liveable, but... ouch.
So... work: there's lots ahead.