Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Last Chance Workout

Today was my last physical therapy session at Top Rehab before the "big surgery". In exactly one week I will be cut open, or as my there year old niece says, " they cutting your knee off".
Well I hope not but I'm sure it will feel that way, I'm even considering a tattoo of my surgery scar. Kat Von D, are you available? I'm broke so could you do it for free? I mentioned the tattoo to Andrea, so she drew a smiley face on my knee, using two of the scope scars as eyes.
It is so simplistic, yet unique maybe I shouldn't wash my leg, seeing as how I have an Andi original.
All of my range of motion tests were great, so no more wall slides. Yahoo! Whatever those things do? After measurements, I could feel a different energy in the air. As if, jillian Michaels, had entered the room, when Andrea told me to get on the treadmill. Omg! This time I turned the fan on myself, as she dialed up 2mph at 7% incline. Now to most that isn't much but to someone with a bum knee and who has been sedentary for months, it is.
I walked my five minutes, then five more on "ole Rusty". Then, something new! Already? This is outrageous, I'm still delicate. Sniff!, snort!
No use trying to talk my way out of it, Jillian, I mean Andrea, put a harness around me.
Yes, a harness, like something a mule would wear. Actually, I was attached to a weight machine and had to walk until the weights pulled me back, like a YoYo. If you watch the biggest loser you will know what I'm talking about. Jillian, will drag behind the contestants, holding a rope as they pull her. I know sounds like a porno, not that I would know.
I did fairly well on this exercise, minus a couple times when walking sideways. Apparently, I'm still weak, I didn't know you could lose teeth at pt.
Within the first fifteen minutes of physical therapy, I had already worked up a sweat and lost five pounds. As a matter of fact, my shorts tried to make an escape during marching and kicking. Its a good thing I drank a protein shake before my workout, ahem pt session. I really enjoyed it, I have missed sweating. No crude jokes please! I wish I could have had lateral release a few months back. My pain has decreased enough that I can go outside and be a little more active. And with that said since the "last chance workout" today, I've had stabbing pains in the medial aspect of my knee. Go figure.

1 comment:

  1. So sorry to hear that about the stabbing pain. Good luck next week and keep me posted.

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