Not much to report.\u00a0 Did morning and evening PT.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s PT resulted in more shifting of my exercises and also marks the beginning of once-a-week visits.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the new regimen: 5-minute Passive Extension; 20 Heel Slides; 1-minute Hamstring Stretch; 30 each of front and back Leg Raises (but drop side ones).\u00a0 Then I stand up for 20 Step-Ups; 20 Knee Bends with 5 second pause, but now I squeeze a midsized kick-ball between my knees.\u00a0 The goal is to get my Medial quad to work harder, right now my Lateral quad is doing all the work; 1 minute Balance, but now do it on a pillow or other more challenging surface.\u00a0 The 20 Knee-Bands were dropped in favor of my new bane: 20 Step-Downs.\u00a0 I can only do these from about a 3\u201d platform of magazines, and even this feels painful, uncomfortable, and awkward.<\/p>\n
In the evening I hit another milestone.\u00a0 I drove for the first time since surgery.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been feeling like I was maybe up to it for the past couple days\u2026so I gave it a try and it was fine.\u00a0 Once I\u2019m a little more mobile I can start driving to work too; it\u2019ll have to wait until I can comfortably make the walk from\u00a0 the parking ramp to the office.<\/p>\n
Stay the course!<\/p>\n
Stay the course!<\/p>\n
Stay the course!<\/p>\n
Today was a beautiful day in Minneapolis, we got out and took care of some business, I picked up a track-suit at a second-hand store for a work event on Friday, and Z wanted one too so we got him one. It was so nice that we decided to take a walk by the lake.\u00a0 This was a big milestone\u2026I did it with no crutch at all!\u00a0 I walked very slowly to ensure that I didn\u2019t limp and Kammy stayed with me while Z zoomed all over the place, first on his scooter, then just running around.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s main news is that I left the crutches behind entirely.\u00a0 I walked (slowly) to lunch and back, but my co-worker is still dropping me off and picking me up\u2026Won\u2019t be long now until I start driving to work again.<\/p>\n
Stay the course!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Day 14 (Tuesday, May 10th) Not much to report.\u00a0 Did morning and evening PT. Day 15 (Wednesday, May 11th) Today\u2019s PT resulted in more shifting of my exercises and also marks the beginning of once-a-week visits.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the new regimen: 5-minute Passive Extension; 20 Heel Slides; 1-minute Hamstring Stretch; 30 each of front and back […]<\/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\/171"}],"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=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}