Monthly Archives: February 2008

At 6:00 I’m up to get ice packs and take medication.  At 8:30 I’m up once again to start some exercises. 

In those 2 1/2 hours my one knee feels out of sorts.  The only thing I can think of is that I turned on my side to rest for a bit — with a pillow inbetween my knees.  But perhaps in rolling over I hit something.

So today is spent in exercising as much as I can.  Seems that pushing the muscles loosens them up and let’s things get back into place.  I’m half way through the day — I’m walking a bit gingerly but at least I’m up and walking.

Always that delicate balance — when your life encounters a rollover, don’t lay down and die — keep going!!

Today was a physio day – as will be Wednesday and Friday next week.

To help with the experience, I asked my wife to take some pictures.  For my sake, you will only experience one visual (the rest reveal the wimp in me!!).  This exercise seeks to get the old knee joint working by having me climb the wall (actually I’m being asked to walk down the wall, not up the wall!!).

By the way, no comments on the beautiful outfit (picked personally by yours truly!!).

The Canadian Prime Minister, of course!!

Yesterday I’m seated in the chair.  A straight back chair. 

The exercise is called "scoop and plant".  We joking call it "scoop and poop".  Doing these exercises sure is a dog’s life.

The exercise requires that the leg is pulled back and planted.  Then you push forward, stretching . . and stretching . . . and stretching.

We put a line on the floor where the first plant happened.  After a few more attempts the line moved back a bit.  A slight bit of progress.

So, tomorrow morning I’ll go back to physio.  Hopefully the line gets moved a bit more — even if it is just one toe over the line.