New Knee Pt. 2

My feet seem to have forgotten they belong to the same body.  

The left one is almost always very swollen these days.

These are the staples that came out of the leg.  

I felt soooo much better once they were removed.

And here's the non-staple leg.  Still has the little dents where the staples were but it gets a good massage every day to try to get them scar area to looses up and lay straight.

OK, Amanda - here's the update.  Every day things are easier and easier.  It will be 4 weeks tomorrow and I sometimes even forget that I had the surgery - until I try to walk down steps without checking to see that I start on the right foot.  Physical Therapy has been hard but also strangely enjoyable.  I've met several people there that share the same time slot and we compare notes, talk about travel, and compare progress.  Each time they add more weight or more exercises, and I do take pain pills before going, but so far nothing hurts too bad, except for the exercise where I lay on my stomach and hang my legs off the edge of the cot and let gravity pull the hamstring.  OUCH!!   I would gladly do any (or maybe all) of the other exercises twice - or even three times - if I could avoid that one.  Saturday we spent the day at the ranch and I did a lot of walking over uneven land, and riding in the Mule.  Didn't bother me much at all.  The hardest part is sitting in the truck - something about  how the seat hits my leg that really causes swelling.    

So that's the update.  Doing well.  Healing and doing physical therapy, just like the doctor ordered.  It's only been 4 weeks and I'm already glad I got the surgery.  I walk better now than before the operation.