Progress on my knee

I think that my knee is doing better. I know that it is because I can straighten it. I can stand on both legs for a short period of time and I can put partial weight on it while “walking” with my oh-so-beautiful crutches. I can’t use my hands to carry much of anything (which makes housework, etc. pretty much impossible) and it takes me a long time to walk anywhere, and this frustrates me. I can also feel the scar tissue coming back in my knee, which also frustrates me. I’m faithfully doing physical therapy and I’m praying that everything will turn out ok. And my husband is the best husband ever. He’s such a great helper to me – I could not have gotten through the past 4 months without his daily help with so many things.

Here is a photo of me from last week when I still had the cast on my leg. It was super heavy and painful! Now I only have to wear it at night. It is basically a cast that they cut in two and then is held together with a couple of really thick ace bandages.

And this brings us to today. Remember how I mentioned that the cast was cut in half? Well, they did this right after the surgery while I was still knocked out so I didn’t know that it had already been cut. When I went to the doctor last week to get the cast taken off… surprise – it had already been cut. The doctor unwrapped it and opened it up to reveal… the other surprise. While they were cutting it after surgery, the blade on the saw apparently got too hot and burnt my leg!!! So, notice in the picture how I have the 3 little incisions from the scopes and a big burn on my lower leg. Bummer, huh? I think that the doctor had visions of malpractice running through his head, but I assured him that I was just thankful to have my leg straight once again!