Over the weekend, I was trying to help a little bit with my transfer to the bathroom A few times, I put the slightest bit of weight on my bad knee to help. I woke up Monday morning and my knee was swollen. I really thought I was making good progress and I was a little bit bothered that apparently I wasn’t.
I couldn’t believe that my knee was still not being close to functional. I had just put the slightest bit of weight on my knee and it swelled up in reaction to that. It’s frustrating! When I got to physical therapy, I told Brad about the few times I put a little bit of weight on my leg.
I got on the table and as he unsnapped my pants, he saw how swollen my knee was. He bent my knee and really worked on it hard! I asked him why it was so swollen and he said, “Because it’s a surgery…” I cut him off by laughing kind of hysterically. Duh! It had only been less than two months after surgery! Dr. Frush told me that I still had another two months of pain ahead of me so why wouldn’t I have swelling too?!
I’m kind of over this pain and swelling in my knee! It has been over nine months that I have endured this and it really stinks! At least the pain after surgery is not as bad as the pain before surgery. That pain was excruciating!