ACL Repair Week 4

Healing is exhausting. I note now that every third day, I seem to have a day where I can't think or move and just lay there. I'm not quite sleeping, though I do doze off a lot. Sometimes I am sleeping, and when I am not, I'm just laying there unable to do anything. This happens every three days regardless of what I have been doing. Though it also happens that when I've done a full set of physio or gone out for a social, I am just wiped. I can really feel my cognitive fuctioning being affected by the physical healing, like everything has been allocated to building flesh scaffolding and neural pathways to the severed parts.

My concussion symptoms also seem to be flaring up. I'm exactly sure if it's from my propioception being affected by my knee injury, or if the overall added stress from the injury and more is weighing on my brain. I seem to be nauseous and my sight is blurry.

Aside from my cognitive functioning being affected, my emotional regulation has been hard to0. Physical activity outdoors is my main coping processes, and I am neither moving nor outdoors much these days.

I was able to walk a little further each time I went for a walk. I even was able to carefully complete one of the shorter loops on a flat trail. I was slow, meticulously navigating around puddles, branches and rocks. I did fall a bit...my concussion symptoms have been flaring and my propiocepton was very off. I felt drunk almost, unable to figure out what straight was. The walk did really take it out of me, but it was good to do.

My physio exercise has been inconsistent due to the fatigue, but i'm still doing okay. I can feel the plateau my physio was talking about. The pain and physical restrictions of my knee, the compensating posture and the mental wear all make it hard to get up and do physio. But I do it when I can.