Ten days post-surgery. Knee recovery is slow. Moving and stretching exercises every day. The knee moves a little and hurts a lot.
For a while, the surgical leg was so swollen it didn’t even look like Judy’s leg. The swelling is going down now though, and her leg doesn’t look so fully-inflated.
Less swelling should mean less resistance to range of motion.
Just today Judy is starting to feel like getting up and around, not because she has to for PT, but because she wants to. We see the doctor for follow-up next week. There aren’t any surface stitches to take out, but the knee will look a lot better when we’re able to get the tape and glue off and wash off all the magic marker lines. Then we’ll know what it really looks like.