5 Days of Walking

Happy Thanksgiving! I'm five days away from my (hopefully) last knee surgery for the next decade or so. I took advantage of being able to walk and went on a hike. We may have gotten a little confused and missed a turn so our four mile hike ended up being closer to six probably. We also did a little stream hopping and scrambling up a steep slope. My knee held up pretty well, just really tired at the end of the day and sore for a few days. Definitely worth it. I'm only two months out from ACL surgerybut it seems to be holding up.

I think I'm the patient that doctors hate because I'm always pushing what I'm supposed to be doing. But without people like us, how would anyone know that you can and cannot do after an injury. I know there is some things that require time, like the scar healing and the graft taking hold, but there has to be some activities to help a patient recover that the doctor is scared to let us try. Recovery is more than physical, I think the mental recovery is tougher, mainly because everyone is more different in the way we handle interruption to daily activities than the way we physically heal.

I think each surgery has gotten easier for me to mentally recover from. Probably because I've gotten more aggressive with my recovery, pushing myself to try things a little earlier then maybe I should. But also, finding something else to keep me busy. I've been reading more, looking into language classes and other classes to improve myself. Or maybe I'm just fooling myself so that I can make it through another painful and long recovery.