Two weeks and four days later

Today is 2 weeks 4 days since my surgery and other than a cold I had the past few days I feel really good. I know part of it is the drugs I'm on, I take an extended release pill every twelve hours and percocet for breakthrough pain. The extended release pills are doing their job wonderfully, if I take a percocet it's only one at a time and I take one as a preventative, right before doing something active like physical therapy, the store, or gym.

Yesterday we went on a family outing to the zoo which was a lot of fun. The weather was perfect, sunshiny and 80 degree with a bit of a breeze. I wish I could say that I hobbled through the entire zoo but I relented and let my husband rent a wheelchair for me so he could push me. Just FYI I hate wheelchairs. Really hate them. I did get up a few times to hobble through narrow spaces, down a steep narrow path and up a hill. My husband kept ordering me to sit back down in the chair when I started up the hill and being the good wife that I am I ignored him and kept going. I felt bad for him, no need for him to push all ...lbs of me up a hill when I am perfectly capable of doing it myself. It was a great day to get out, but I was ready to go home when we were done. My knee was pretty achy and needed to be iced when we got home.

Today was pretty good awesome because I realized how quickly I heal and how strong my body really is. Yes, it did take me a while to figure this out (I blame the drugs for slowing down my brain) but, really, after what my poor body has been through in the past 18 months.. and it's still going strong and healing. It's just amazing. Today's workout consisted of bench press, I went up to 75 lbs but could have easily gone up in weight. I decided to take it a bit easy, after all I'm still on crutches and it's the only way I have to get around. I did some shoulder and back exercises and then, just to see what I could do, did some tricep cable pull downs, balancing on one leg, at 35 lbs. I think I broke the heart of the guy before me because he did 5 lbs less than me and he was on two legs. The highlight of the entire workout was when I sat on the recumbent bike, with the seat in the normal position, and was able to do a full revolution.. well actually 10 minutes worth. Woohoo!