Anyone who has seen Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day pretty much has a good idea of my life these days. After two fantastic days last weekend of doing what I was told (lap the garage 15 times) my knee swelled like a ripe casaba melon and I could barely stand on it. It has taken all of this week so far to ice and rest it down to where I can bear weight again. In this third week after surgery it feels like Groundhog Day all over again. It feels like no progress is being made. The experts tell me to use it, walk it, do this, don’t overdo that. It would be so incredibly easy to throw my hands in the air and scream but what am I doing?
I am making travel plans for next year! I have every confidence that I will once again be ambulatory with a knee that does not swell at the blink of an eye.
And it is pretty interesting to me how little I am reading. I have books on the Kindle, four loaned paperbacks, 3 magazines and mostly I stream movies, or play solitaire scrabble or mahjong.
Tomorrow I am supposed to transition to the cane which is progress. It is progress that I now can lift my leg 4″ off the floor in a seated position. It is baby steps…everyday baby steps till I can baby step my way out of Dodge and to the airport!
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