Post-Op Day 12: Molasses and Rehab

Molasses - thick brown uncrystallized juice from raw sugar during the refining progress.

Obviously my legs are sweet and widely attractive. There's hard hitting scientific evidence proving my legs are sugary sweet. As my knee recovers or in other words as the knee is being refined and toned, molasses has obviously formed within the joints causing slow movement and restricting motion. There's no other way to explain it. If I were to dig into my knee I wouldn't find blood, but sweet molasses.

Sure I can get the knee moving and my ROM is over 110 degrees, but my knee quickly hardens like curing cement. It takes plenty of ice, silent swearing and pain to get the knee going again. Just when I think I'm really making progress, it seems as my knee takes a turn for the worse. My good knee just works so well. It's incredible how easily it moves and swings with a HUGE range of motion. It's strong, taut and balanced. My recovering knee is still quite painful, slow, ugly yet full of sweet nectar.

Rehab. I'm beginning to understand how come rehab is so long. I not only need to get the ROM back but to get rid of the pain and restore the muscles and coordination is going to take some work. When you exercise your muscles, you end up limiting the ROM. It's a tug-o-war getting the knee back in shape.

Tonight I went to my stake center for the priesthood session. Yes I was able to sit for the session although when I got up to leave my knee was almost locked. It took some time to get the blood flowing and straighten out the knee. I thought President Uchtdorf was talking to me about patience. He was talking about spiritual patience but I applied it to my rehab. Hopefully I'll have the necessary patience to not just wait out the recovery time but to actively enjoy the experience and learn something. I can also take the time to think about what I really want to do. Obviously I won't be spending time doing my fun activities like surfing and golf. Speaking of golf, I'm itching to play but obviously it's not an option. Argh!!!