Day Five

Pain-wise, today has been my worst day since the surgery. I could not get comfortable at all last night and somehow ended up on my stomach (I don't know how- my leg feels like it weighs about 50 pounds and I woke up as soon as I rolled over). Anyway, I had to make myself wake up, do my three exercises (the block, dangle my leg and the cpm machine). As always, I fell asleep while on the cpm machine. Its kind of relaxing. After that was all done (2 and a half hours), I fell asleep. I was totally out. I felt so crappy- my leg was throbbing and my body was just beat. My phone rang multiple times but I couldn't pull myself out of my haze enough to answer. Does that ever happen to you??
Anyway, my lovely mother woke me to do it all again. I had a visitor- my friend Theodore from the pool and my Oakwood Adapted Athletics team. He helped a lot. Here he is helping to fill up my ice pack.

And here I am dangling my knee over the side of the bed. It hurts so much but feels so good.....