Post #13 Catch-up

6/8/2013: I met with my doctor on the 6th. He is very happy with my progress. We discussed how my leg gave out on me (after my busy weekend), he said that may happen as I build up my muscle. He told me taking off my brace will help in building up my muscle. So he gave me the OK to take it off now. I've had it off for two days now and so far i agree my knee already feels a lot stronger. But I will probably continue to keep it with me until I am completely confident with it off. Also I haven't been doing a lot of strenuous activity with my brace off, so until I do, my brace will be near me. The doctor also says I can't run/jump just yet. Maybe in four to six weeks; but i need to listen to my body.

7/1/2013: I completely forgot about blogging!  Maybe because things have been going so well.  I can't believe its been a month. Well, during this month I've basically just worked on building up muscle. My physical therapist cut out the pool and I am strictly doing land exercises now. SOOO hard. But only after a couple appointments I already feel a lot stronger. I've been keeping my brace off, unless if i know I will be on my feet for a long time. I frequently visit friends who live an hour out of town and we usually make the most of my visit. So there's a lot of walking.

I started work on 6/29/2013.  It went surprisingly well! I also have great coworkers who helped me. I did two 12 hour days in a row. Waking up for my second day of work I was a little sore, but again I did OK with work. Slightly tired, a little bit of pain here and there. Other than that no complaints. I can not believe it went that well! I really thought things would be way worse. I guess I should let you know that I work at a hospital and am on my feet for 12 hours walking from one building to the next. I wore my brace the whole time I worked. I have two days off before I go back to work for another two days. After that I get several days off before I start my normal schedule, which is four days on, two days off, two days on. I'm crossing my fingers that the four days go as well as the first two days went.