Physical Therapy funtimes

It's official, it's been more that 4 weeks. It's great, I'm allowed to bend my knee and am in physical therapy learning how to use my muscles all over again. I went to the Dr last Thursday and he made me cry by bending my knee, then told me to go to his referred PT and work with her. She is great, and a fan of all sports Boston, even pronounces Car - Cahhh.

I also finally got to hang out with my boys last week. Betz, Josh, and Murray came over to hang out with me, since I can't really go anywhere. We had a blast, at least I did. I miss hanging out with people, not that I don't like Galen a lot, but I miss other people. I miss my friends. I also met some new friends in the courtyard of my apartment. All in all, a great time and much needed break from the norm.

Physical Therapy was on Friday for the first time. My PT is great, I really like her and I can tell she's good at her job. She massaged my knee area to try and break up some of the swelling that's just been stuck there since there hasn't been any movement. She also had me do some exercises for bending my knee and strengthen my right leg again, since it's pretty much lost all its muscle. She recommended doing exercises in the pool too, so yay! Too bad it wasn't very nice Saturday and all day Sunday I was exhausted. Pool will be open tomorrow and I will test them out.

A thank you to Galen - Cafe Atlantico. So I told him that it was a surprise and wouldn't give him hints as to where we were going. He's been by my side and wonderful, because I know I'm hard to deal with, I have my bad moments with the leg. My friend Domenick is a chef at Atlantico, so I made arrangements to let him know we were coming. We had great cocktails and the manager even brought us Mini-bar treats (olive oil encased in sugar, beet tumble weed, and nitrous frozen popcorn called Dragon Breath). Dragon breath was awesome, we each had the smoke from the nitrous come out of our mouths and nose. Dinner was expensive, but worth it because it was a great experience.

Mom and Kimmie came down on Saturday morning to spend the day and evening with me. Kim sure is pregnant, and so cute. I'm so excited to be an Aunt. So mom took Kim and me to Target (which is quite hilarious walking around with me in a motorized cart and Kimmie very pregnant) and then we went to Home Goods. Since Home Goods doesn't have carts for me I somehow managed to walk around on crutches for over a half hour. I was definitely tired and done by the time we left. We went to Mexicali Blues for dinner then came home to watch "He's Just Not That Into You." Galen decided to go out, which is great to get away with his friends. He did decide, also, to come over at 3 am to stay with me, which is better than driving. We all went to breakfast at Whitlow's the next morning and then took Kimmie to the train station. Galen and I slept for the majority of the day as I didn't sleep well Saturday night and he didn't' sleep much.

I was back at PT this morning and got my leg to bend to 100 degrees, yay me. The goal is by next Thursday to have it to at least 135 degrees for the Dr. I slept for a lot of the day as still catching up from the weekend and not sleeping well last night. I have some great arts and crafts to start doing to keep me occupied. I'm totally ready to learn to walk again, but have to be patient and keep doing my exercises daily.