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Highlights * Healing is long, hard and emotional - it takes more than you think and you will hit a plateau with steps foward and back * Healing physical wounds impacts emotional capacity to regulate, cope and respond This week had wins and challenges. I spent at least three days on the
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Finally got to see my ACL specific physio, Jian Soares from Fall Line Fitness, today. He was also pleased with my progress though also resounded words of caution that the wound and graft needs their healing time. We worked on some quad activation and he measured my knee flexion -
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0:00 /0:17 1× The gals from my morning strength class are so sweet; They've helped me get to the gym today and do some modified upper body exercises. I can't retrieve or put back weights and equipment, so it's been on them
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I stepped out of the car and walked into the clinic, sans crutches. As I walked towards my physio, her eyes fixated on my bottom limbs. After some more observation, she commented that she was pleased with the strength and mobility I have reached, but I need to slow down.
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M, my partner who has been diligently taking care of me throughout this surgery recovery as well as through the nervous breakdown and burnout I had before the surgery, really deserves and needs a rest. I encouraged him to go skiing and found myself a catsitter (I'm the
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I woke up to a throbbing in my knee I couldn't ignore. I relctuantly took a full Extra Strength Tylenol and texted my friend to let her know I sadly would not be able to make it to her birthday celebration today. As much as I really want
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1 week! Last week at this time, I would be at home post surgery, weakly hugging a blue plastic I couldn't stop vomitting in. Now, I have returned home from the doctor's who trimmed my sutures and I'm furiously writing on my blog while
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I overdid it yesterday. And I felt it today. I had to pop half a Tylenol Extra Strength this morning and felt pretty heavy mentally and sore physically today. But that didn't stop me from calling my kinesio to ask if we can find a way for me
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I ended popping 250 mg of Tylenol last night as my knee was pretty sore from the movement. I tend to be a go-getter and am eager to get back up and going so I'll need to keep my gusto in check to not accelerate too quickly. I
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Above is what my leg looks like under the bandages. There’s a medium sized blood blister on the left under the bandages. I try not to poke at it too much. The surgeon’s graffiti tag on my leg reminds me that humans did this work. How wild is
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The photo above is from my physio Jian Soares' talk on ACL recovery at Fall Line Fitness. This graph stood out to me for a couple reasons. 1) It's a great visual to give me information about how long it will take my ACL graft to fully
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The drugs have been ROUGH. I switched to T3's, which aren't as strong as the hydromorphone, but still make my stomach hurt, my head gross and dizzy, and I'm still nauseous. I quickly went to half tabs of T3's every 4 hours.