I keep setting little goals and celebrating them every week. Little things like not using a cane, going to several stores at one time and walking around them without the use of an aid like a cane, walker, or shopping cart.
Going to Weight Watchers and standing on a scale. I am slowly getting back to normal and cannot wait to have life get back to normal. I know I will be doing my other knee, and yes, I would do it again but not till next year.
Everyone who has had their knees done, has told me it takes six months to get back to normal. My next goal was to get back into a watercise class by day 44, it actually happened on day 55.
That is the day after I saw the Orthopedic Surgeon for follow up. My goals after that are to get my knee to bend 120 degrees, sit down and get up from sitting without thinking about it, and go up and down stairs normally. I am also planning on starting to work out at the gym a couple of days a week after I get his blessing.
What would I recommend to someone who has to get a knee replaced. For the first six weeks before the operation I would do PT not only on the leg that is being operated on but also do upper body arm strength. I never realized how much upper body arm strength I needed to use a walker.
I almost think crutches would have been easier. I intend to check that out. I would definitely stay the first night in the hospital and definitely go to a rehabilitation place for the first two weeks after the surgery.
I would definitely not allow them to wheel me around in a wheelchair going to PT, or shower because it is only by walking that you get back to normal. Those I saw being pushed around in wheelchairs were advancing a lot slower than me.
You also have strange thoughts while laying around in the Rehabilitation places. The Olympics were being advertised and I envisioned a competition doing walker parallel bar exercises.
Then there was a competition of who could get in and out of a hospital bed the fastest by raising and lower it. Then there was the climb six steps and coming back down race. Last was the 50 and 100 foot dash across the PT clinic.
Strange thoughts of an idle mind. I hope you have enjoyed reading about my journey. It has been a long road since December when it first became very apparent that I needed a replacement and now working through rehabilitation.
I have an ear that would love to hear your stories. Let’s taste the real meaning of life. I am still working on my course with a goal of launching a starter course by June 30th, and I will keep you abreast as to how the process goes.
If you want to participate in this process and join my first class please send me an email to www.bobchuckpatterson@yahoo.com
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