Day fourteen

Yay! It's been two weeks. This is what my knee looks like today:

Obviously I am still very swollen and looking very un-knee-like. Several of my little tape bandages have come off which is good (I think). I've been dying to see what's under there.

My day was typical and went something like this:
Up around 730 and two hours on cpm machine (I always fall back asleep while on it)
breakfast
about an hour of exercises
two hours on cpm machine
lunch
about an hour of exercises/ tv (this is the time of day there's a 4 hour block of the original CSI! yay!)
nap
hour of exercises again
dinner
last hour of exercises
two hours of cpm machine before bed

Soooo exciting. The interweb and television keep me nice and distracted and it's rare that I do all my exercises straight in one hour. Plus visitors are usually in and out. And my parents of course.
Tonight just for fun I laid on my stomach and had my mom bend/stretch my knee as much as I could tolerate, bringing my heel toward my bum. I just wanted to get an idea of how I was progressing....I could only get to what looked just under 90 degrees. And it hurt like hell. So I won't be doing that again until someone makes me.
I will leave you with a picture of the tool I have used most in my recovery.......

 

It's a grabber and it's the best invention ever.