I have been on a big body-love kick the last month or so, and it has been pretty great.

( Having a body is an ongoing project... )

I have been meaning to post something about how well my incisions have healed; they look more like scars than wounds these days. ( But apparently post-surgery is not quite done being gross yet. )

I'm working from home today. Few minutes ago I got myself a second cup of coffee and didn't realize until I sat down that it was cold. You know what I did then? I got up and took it back to the kitchen to reheat, came back to my desk and worked for a few minutes, and then went back to the kitchen and brought the warm coffee back out to the desk. ( Read more... )

Sitting in my chair at work today is a little more uncomfortable than it was last week. Same chair, same height, more stretch on my knee. What ( Read more... )

Just walked for 20 minutes on the elliptical. Feeling simultaneously accomplished and weak. (And pooped ( Read more... )

Saw the surgeon today for a two-month checkup. She's pleased ( Read more... )

Missed the bus this morning and walked to the train station. Only took me about 25 minutes, too. So, yay! That's possible now!

On the other hand Ow. Ow ow ow: that's too much walking. And now PT for the first time in three weeks! Wheeeee!

Later in the day: PT went well. I don't appear to have totally failed at self-directed rehab in the last few ( Read more... )

I can use the elliptical! Kind of! (Tyler and I have an elliptical trainer in our apartment - does the internet know that? Well, you do now.) I can, as of today's just-finished lunch break, get on it -no small feat, not a thing I could do two weeks ago- and push the pedals in full revolution. It's right at the edge of my range of movement, but I ( Read more... )

Week one the incisions were, y'know, incisions: flesh that was cut apart and then held together with thread and tape. They did ugly but benign things like bleed and scab. The whole leg was pretty well wrapped up and on ice all the time, and also I was on quite a lot of drugs and in quite a lot of pain, so incisions were the least of my worries ( Read more... )

- The knee continues to improve, slowly. Quads are all firing reliably, if weakly, now. Actual recovery, walking without pain, seems in sight. Still far off, but like something that will eventually happen to me. Range of motion is approaching 90°; I'm feeling good about the checkup in two weeks ( Read more... )