On April 4th<\/sup> we went back to talk with the surgeon again.\u00a0 He said that my progress was looking good enough to schedule surgery!\u00a0 I\u2019d have to wait for 3 more weeks though, which he said I\u2019d need to get the swelling down more and to regain more strength.\u00a0 After that, we talked about which sort of graft I would get.\u00a0 I asked a lot of questions about the relative advantages of the three types; what pain I could expect, what concerns and what outcomes I could look forward to.\u00a0 Between us we decided that the hamstring autograft was the right choice for me.\u00a0\u00a0 Then Kammy and I went out to the desk and scheduled over a dozen appointments for me: Rehab 2x weekly for a month, Surgery day plus 2 day, 1 week and 6 week follow up with the Surgeon.\u00a0 I also called my GP to schedule a required pre-surgery physical.<\/p>\n That was it\u2026in 3 weeks I\u2019d be having my first ever surgery.<\/p>\n The rest of my prehab went pretty much according to schedule.\u00a0 By surgery day I could walk up and down stairs without using the handrail, swelling was still there a bit but you could clearly see my kneecap, range of motion was very good (nearly full extension and 90+percent of flexion).<\/p>\n The pre-op physical was mostly a non-event.\u00a0 It was more of a survey\/questionnaire than anything else.\u00a0 Basically, my Doctor looked for anything that could complicate the surgery.\u00a0 He asked about family history with anesthesia, checked blood pressure, discussed meds I was to avoid during this week preceding surgery; no aspirin, ibuprofen etc. that could thin my blood.\u00a0 I hadn\u2019t been in to my regular doctor since before the injury so it was also a chance to catch up with him\u2026we joked about me out skiing with a bunch of young guys though I never think of it that way until someone brings it up.\u00a0 Basically he gave me the two-thumbs-up to go have surgery.<\/p>\n On surgery-eve Kammy and I went to see Jonathon Coulton with Paul & Storm.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve never heard of\/seen them, check them out!\u00a0 They\u2019re comedian\/musicians and sure put on an entertaining show.\u00a0 It was nice to be doing something to keep my mind off of the fact that I had surgery in the AM and couldn\u2019t eat or drink anything.\u00a0 Starting at bedtime even water was off limits.\u00a0 We got to bed later than I\u2019d have preferred, there\u2019ll only be 4 or 5 hours of sleep before surgery wake up call. Still, I’m nervous and find it hard to sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Check in with Surgeon (Mon, Apr 4th) On April 4th we went back to talk with the surgeon again.\u00a0 He said that my progress was looking good enough to schedule surgery!\u00a0 I\u2019d have to wait for 3 more weeks though, which he said I\u2019d need to get the swelling down more and to regain more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Rest of Prehab<\/h3>\n
Pre-Op Physical<\/h3>\n
Surgery eve (Mon, Apr. 25th<\/h3>\n