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Here We Go Again…
Well, it’s been 3 months and 2 days since my last surgery, which means it’s about damn time for another one. So tomorrow at the ungodly hour of 5:30 a.m. I’m going to roll out of bed, head to the … Continue reading
Get Bent
A while back I made a comment about how the only response I would get when asking about physical therapy was “It sucks.” For the first few weeks of my physical therapy experience, I thought that everyone else was just … Continue reading
Posted in Knee injury, Physical therapy, Recovery
Tagged ACL, knee, PCL, physical therapy, range of motion, surgery
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Zombie Knee Hits the Town
After several weeks of doing absolutely nothing except watching movies, suffering through increasingly painful physical therapy sessions, and generally just being in a foul mood, I had the opportunity to test out my new knee in Ocean City, MD this … Continue reading
Posted in Knee injury, Recovery
Tagged ACL, dancing, knee, Ocean City, PCL, recovery, surgery
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Back on the H-O-R-S-E
It’s no secret that I love to play sports. I’ve been playing one sport or another year-round since I was about 8 years old. Baseball, basketball, football, soccer, badminton, whatever; if it involves a winner and a loser separated by … Continue reading
Week 4: Bend it like Beckham
So today is the 4 week anniversary of my knee being sliced open and stuffed full of a dead guy’s body parts, which means that I get to do new stuff in physical therapy. This is good because I was … Continue reading
What Does 100% Feel Like?
I was talking to a friend of mine at work today when the conversation inevitably turned to my knee surgery and my quest to become athletic once again. He asked me if I would “ever be 100% again”, and I … Continue reading
Adventures in Left-Footed Driving
On a whim, I decided to try to drive myself to PT yesterday. I figured that if I could bend my knee far enough to get into the driver’s seat I should be just fine to drive, since operating the … Continue reading
Posted in Knee injury, Recovery
Tagged ACL, driving, Lupe Fiasco, PCL, recovery, surgery
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Want To Make Some New Friends? Have Yourself Some Surgery
As of today I am 2 weeks and 2 days removed from surgery, and I don’t think things could be going much better than they are. My leg strength is coming back at an alarming rate, I’m regaining range of … Continue reading
My Immobilizer Brace and Me
Borderline personality disorder is a psychological condition which causes people to have intense, unstable relationships with others in which they swing wildly from love to hate and back again. BPD is best encapsulated by the phrase “I hate you, don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Knee injury, Recovery, Surgery
Tagged ACL, Billy Ripken, brace, PCL, physical therapy
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Week 1: Percocet, Sleep, and Constipation
I was going to watch a movie tonight, but Netflix is letting me down in a big way. I spent about 20 minutes scrolling through several pages of masterpieces such as Kazaam, House Party 3, something called “Transmorphers”, and this: … Continue reading
Life After Knee Surgery 