A blog about my experience with ACL knee surgery for the second time around. I am a 25-year old freestyle skier and coach and played soccer in college. I also swim, bike, run and do pilaties and yoga. It almost goes without saying that being active is my livelihood and nursing myself back to health from this injury is very important to me! I'm not the first one to go through this and won't be the last but maybe my experience can help others.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
that that does not kill you.. 4-25-10
So basically I'm really attractive right now. I haven't showered in 4 days. I have a metal brace on my leg from hip to ankle and I'm pretty sure I smell like throwup, seeing how I that's what I did this morning. An incredible pain in my stomach woke me from my slumber in the middle of the night. I thought it was weird to be having pain somehwere else besides my knee. It turns out my body reacted negativly to the oxycotin pain killers. The pain killers were doing a fine job of numbing the pain but did something absolutely absurd to my stomach. I can handle some knee discomfort but what I was feeling in the morning is something I can't handle. So starting today I went cold turkey on them and have only been taking ibuprofen and icing. That that does not kill you will only make you stronger. I'm getting around really well and tonight was the first night I could sit and eat dinner at the dinner table. Tomorrow I have my first physical therapy session and I feel like I'm a little a head of the game compared to my last acl surgery... so we'll see where I'm really at.
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