Sept. 7th, 2010 (Day 5)

Well it is day 5 and I am feeling pretty darn good. I did not have to take a pain pill until about 2pm today and was really excited. I have been up and walking around connecting with some incredible people. We are setting up Sweat'n with the Wildcats.... We are going to offer a complimentary class before tailgate begins at the U of A Football Games. This is going to be a great way to get out and sweat with some of my favorite people.
It has been a bit hard to be on the side lines while I watch everyone else sweat it out. It has totally made me appreciate and love the all that I am able to do when I am healthy. It is going to be a long hard road and I know that I have just started that journey, but I cannot help but see the sunshine on tomorrow. Today I have felt more pain then I have since I had the surgery, but I am also trying not to take the pain meds. Today I have only taken one and I am ecstatic about it. We will see when I start re-hab how that will go over.
Tomorrow I am going to the doctor for a follow-up visit and to hopefully get my stitches out. I am hoping that all the at home rehabilitation and taking it easy has helped to get me on the road to recovery even quicker. I will fill you all in tomorrow once I know what the dealio is.

2 Days Later

I am on day 2 after and things are moving pretty well. I am definitely feeling more of the pain today then I did yesterday. I had a block put in the day of surgery that numbed my leg from the hip down. It was fabulous the first night because I could not feel a thing, other then a little pressure. I woke up yesterday feeling great. My leg did not really hurt and I could not feel anything yet because the block was still running strong. Towards the afternoon I began to feel more then pressure... It began to hurt a little more. I tried taking just one pain pill instead two, but an hour later I needed to take another one. I have been trying not to take them, but I really do not want to have the pain when I am doing my leg raises and ankle pumps. Honestly I never thought that lifting my leg could hurt so much in my life. My hip joint and back are making up the difference that my leg has not been able to take on for the last 3 months. I know that this is the beginning to to my knee getting better, but it is going to be a painful road and it has just begun. Until tomorrow I will be signing off. If you have anything advice and/or criticism please share.

Today is the day... September 2nd

So today is the day that my knee is getting fixed. I did have a little anxiety last night just knowing that today is the day and that I would be going under. The doctors are going to kick booty today and I am going to come out super woman. Just keep positive thoughts in mind remind myself that this is the first day of a new start. Her we go....

August 3rd, 2010

It has been a rough couple of days. My knee has been hurting a little more this week then it has in the past couple of weeks. I have decided to slow down a little in my classes. Taking it slower in Yoga, since going up and down in poses is tacking on the knee. I should not push it and listen to what my body is telling me, but I am to excited about the community to sit still. I know I need to be careful so that I do not create more of problem in my knee. So I will be taking it easy until September 2nd. That is THE DAY that I start on the road to recovery. I have been chatting with individuals about how they are doing after surgery and they are doing well. It is hard and going to hurt, but it is going to make me better, faster and stronger then I am now. Just have to stay positive and take care of myself. The yoga and exercises that my trainer gave to keep my strength up around my knee seems to be going well. These will allow me to go in strong and ahead of the game. Just keep doing what I am doing and know that I will be fixed.

July 26, 2010

Woke up in a great mood today. I had a wonderful Sunday that just continued into today. I went for a walk with the husband, well I walked and he ran, around Reid Park. My knee felt pretty good when I walked, but it will catch and have a sharp pain. I cannot wait to have full bend of my knee. It is an awkward feeling when you can hyper extend your knee and when you go to squat down it shoots a pain so striking that you just hit the floor. I just keep working on my mobility with the exercises that Justin, my former trainer from the U of A, showed me. I just need to live in the moment and not worry about what I cannot do, but what I can do now and what impact I can have. So to live in today's moment I enjoyed a wonderful CrossFit class. I adjusted the WOD (Workout of the Day) so I could finish it the best way I could. We has 7 rounds of cleans and hand stand push-ups for time. The cleans were a light weight so that I did not have to jerk my knee around, but was able to get the weight up. My collar bone is a little sore from resting the bar on it. ;0) The hand stand push ups I walked myself up the wall so I did not have to through my legs up... I actually took the pressure off my knee, but added more to my arms. On the last handstand push-up I literally hit the the ground and could not get up. So I had to stand up and re-set, which took so much more arm strength that I did not think I could get up. Well I did and I finished in 12 min. I was pretty proud of myself. My workouts are looking a little different and the hurt a little more, but they are getting done.

July 24, 2010

Today has been good day. I started out the day with some much needed yoga. It is hard, through... I would love to go into deeper posses, but am restricted by the knee. It is all going to be okay because I know it will get better soon. It is just hard going from being so active to being restricted. I will take what I can and just keep being positive and know that I will be back into running shape in no time.
I have noticed that the hardest part of the day is when I wake up in the morning. My knee is so stiff that it really hurts to take those few steps first thing in the morning. Even if I get up in the middle of the night, when I get up I will get a shooting pain in my knee that will literally make me buckle. I am so afraid of doing something that will create more damage to the knee that I guard it all the time. I am always pushing my body and myself to the limits, but in this case I have backed off tremendously and did not realize how much I would miss running, cardio kickboxing and dancing around the showroom. I will be able to get to my favourite activities to there fullest soon enough, but today I am not being patient and I want it to happen now. The reasoning for being so impatient is because I have been over compensating for many weeks now. My arms and right side are feeling the burn and I want it to be a full body experience, not just a right side and upper body experience. Just tell myself that patience is a virtue. Just keep swimming… Just keep swimming. Today is a good day and lets rock it out with that!

July 22, 2010

So today is the first day afte I set the schedule for my surgery. I am nervous, but excited all at the same time. I just want to get to running and training again. Yoga has been amazing during this journey. It really makes you listen to your body and find your limits. We are all so used to pushing ourselves to the breaking point. Why? To be the star athlete? The captain of the team? or simply to say nothing will ever stop us. Either way our bodies will decide for us whether we want it to or not. If I had listened to my knee when I was hearing a clicking noise maybe I would not be here today. However I am here and I am getting surgery. That is ok though, because I know that I am healthy and strong and will get back on top in no time.