I wanna take you to China, I wanna kiss you in Rome

[venta]

In case anyone's curious, I've still got bad knees. I just stopped writing about them because I was boring even myself ;)

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[lathany]

But the grind of 45 minutes of exercises morning and night is really quite surprisingly draining. Come home from work, eat tea, do physio, go to bed. Get up and hurrah! More physio. I have been trying to keep the whinging to a minimum (not least because there is no let-up in the physio schedule for the forseeable) but bloody hell am I fed up with it.

:-(

I'm not remotely surprised.

My physio's advice this morning was that I shouldn't think about having the surgery for at least another month, as my knees have only just recovered to the point of being able to do "serious strengthening".

As opposed to half-hearted strengthening?!

[venta]

Some of the exercises she's given me definitely constitute comedy strengthening.

I was almost beaten this evening trying to figure out how to give myself a strong enough anchor point for the new exercise. She'd suggested using a chair with someone sitting on it but ChrisC is out. Eventually managed using a piano stool and a case of wine...

[erming]

Careful of those kind of exercises. They can rapidly lead to not doing the exercises and an empty case of wine (and possibly new unexplained injuries)....

[venta]

On the contrary... If I drink any wine, the case will no longer be heavy enough to keep the piano stool in place!

[bopeepsheep]

One of my shoulder exercises reduces smallclanger to tears of laughter every time he sees me try it.

This is mostly because it usually winds up with my smacking myself in the head when my shoulder fails to completely perform the movement it's trying to make and decides to drop my own hand on me instead.

[venta]

Oh dear :(
Are you seeing any shoulder improvement?

[bopeepsheep]

It's going through a very stiff phase, which apparently means the physio is working but we've got to wait for the worst of the tears to finish healing before I can step up to the next level - the stiffness is my muscles trying to protect the tear while they're doing their exercising thing anyway (or something. I stopped understanding partway through the explanation). So my next appointment has been pushed back a few weeks to give it time to continue healing (i.e. "just keep doing what you're doing").

On the plus side: obvious healing going on. On the negative: it's suddenly got a lot harder to do simple things I could do a week ago. And it's randomly aching in new places as the muscles complain about the physiotherapy. And my son laughs at me when I smack myself in the face. But I can feel the difference in the muscles around the shoulder so ... plodding on.

If they could invent a way to accelerate tendon/muscle/ligament healing I would be all over that first study. :)

[venta]

Argh. Yes. That bit about waiting for things to heal. I know that one. Also things getting worse in the short term (new exercise yesterday; now I have a sore bum).

The healing part is good news, though. I hope it gets on with it...

[lathany]

Always apply wine! Although possibly not like that.