Honestly today and Wednesday and Tuesday for that matter have all jumbled together.\u00a0 At my 11 am dose of Percocet, Kammy and I decide to cut me back to a \u00bd tablet to make me more lucid for my first PT Session.\u00a0 Kammy drives, though I don\u2019t remember much of it.<\/p>\n
At this first physical therapy appointment a Nurse comes to re-do my bandages, have a look to make sure there\u2019s no infection, etc.\u00a0 He also gives me the go-ahead to shower carefully (no soaking, no baths) but not to remove the water-proof bandages that are left on the various incisions and holes.\u00a0 He says it looks perfect!<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been careful to keep the same physical therapist that I\u2019ve been working with since the beginning of my pre-hab.\u00a0 He quickly checks my range of motion (not very much at all) and how I\u2019m doing strength wise. He then explains the exercises for me to do this week: Standing weight-shift for 3-5 minutes; 3-5 minute passive extension; work up to 30 leg-raises each on back, side, stomach; 20 heel slides; hamstring stretch for 1 minute.\u00a0 I\u2019ve done \u00bd of these before in pre-hab so we don\u2019t take a long time to demonstrate them.\u00a0 My quads are in good enough shape that I can skip right past the quad-sets!<\/p>\n
Since the pain is still totally manageable (except spasms which don\u2019t seem to be helped by anything) we stick with \u00bd tablet of Percocet for the evening and bedtime dose.\u00a0 I decide to set a \u00bd tablet by my bedside for the middle-of-the-night dose, but that I won\u2019t take it if I don\u2019t wake up needing it.\u00a0 Even though I still woke up many times during the night (as the previous two) I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d need the pain pills so I didn\u2019t take them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Honestly today and Wednesday and Tuesday for that matter have all jumbled together.\u00a0 At my 11 am dose of Percocet, Kammy and I decide to cut me back to a \u00bd tablet to make me more lucid for my first PT Session.\u00a0 Kammy drives, though I don\u2019t remember much of it. Physical Therapy (Plus redress […]<\/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\/127"}],"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=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}