Just got back from physical therapy. Positives: my knee is bending better and the therapist said I can start walking around my apartment without the crutches.
Negatives: we cant figure out why the back of my knee hurts so damn bad. I am having very sharp pains not just the hamstring graft site, but what feels like every single strand of fiber on the backside of my knee.
Its hard to stay motivated. I have been pretty depressed and the pain meds, the constant necessity to lie down, and the unquenchable thirst for sleep aren’t helping.
I still haven’t been able to master sleeping on my back, so I haven’t been sleeping much. Sleeping on my side usually results in a throbbing pain around th graft site. The ACL (and my new fake acl) has no nerve endings so i assume most of the pain revolves around the meniscus and the graft.
either way, life sucks. I wish it were summer, 2005.
