Super Tuesday is coming up in just a couple of days, so Stan was up, dressed, and ready to leave just as I got up this morning. He's an election chief and had to go pick up all the paraphernalia needed for his precinct, so I had a particularly quiet morning. Not to be too much of a couch potato, however, I also was showered and dressed by the time he returned, so after unloading his cart of "goodies," and after looking over everything once to make sure it was all in order, we left to go out for a small shopping expedition. We really didn't need much, but it was a lovely sunny day and it felt nice to get out and go pick up a few things that were terribly necessary--some chocolates and toothpaste mostly! They go together, don't they?
On the way home we decided to stop at one of our favorite semi-fast food places, Noodles and Company, for lunch. After a yummy hot bowl of Thai Chicken Soup, I was more than happy to come home and spend the next couple of hours putting things away, doing a bit of laundry, and generally piddling. And yes, there's always a nap these days, so we both took a nap and then reality intruded in the shape of doing my exercises. As far as exercises go, I'm not doing much for the extension side of my knee since it's been at 0 for some time now and I have no problem keeping my leg perfectly straight. I'm really pushing and stretching, however, to get my knee to bend more, then even more. Just looking at my "bend," Stan says it looks comparable to my other knee which is 120+ so I'm really hoping that tomorrow's measurement will show improvement. My therapist did warn me that tomorrow would be "report card" day and that she would be testing me in various ways--extension and flexion, knee strength, over all leg strength, etc. and would then send the results to my surgeon. Although I don't take any pain medicine except aspirin and the occasional ibuprofen when we go out, I still take Percocet right before PT so that I'll be able to do everything my therapist requires of me. I will be very glad when I can ditch the rest of it, however, because it continues to make me vaguely nauseous. It's a necessary evil, I suppose, at least for PT.
That's really all the news from today about my leg, but life went on normally and pleasantly. Stan really wanted a pizza for dinner, so we ordered out, watched TV, Skyped with older son and grandchildren, and generally relaxed and chatted away the remainder of the evening. It's a busy couple of days coming up, especially for Stan, so time to call it a night!
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