So, with a gimp leg, I could have been a mummy or a pirate or Evil Knievel for Halloween, but I went as Misty Mae Treanor.  Yes, the Olympic gold-winning beach volleyball player.  It was a perfect costume, since she is currently on crutches after rupturing her achilles on Dancing with the Stars.  All I had to do was put on a sweatband, sport some black sunglasses, wear a sportsbra, and carry around a volleyball.  I couldn’t bring myself to wear the appropriate beach volleyball playing bottoms, however, since I get chilled easily…or something like that.

The knee is coming along nicely.  I can almost bend it to 50 degrees.

Physical therapy isn’t as horribly painful as I thought it would be.  All I have to do is try to bend my knee, try to flex my quad muscle, and walk around like a robot without crutches.  I had heard horror stories of padded rooms which contain a machine call the range of motion machine in which you are tied down, attached to the machine which makes your knee bend, locked in the padded room, and left there until you achieve full range of motion.  Maybe that part comes later…

For now, all I have to deal with is the electrical stim machine which jolts my quad and makes it flex.  It actually kinda tickles.

I am convinced however, that my muscles have totally atrophied in a matter of less than two weeks.  The PT tells me I’ll get the muscle back, but it still freaks me out!

If things keep coming along at this pace, I hope to be back on the bike by week 4…week 5 at the latest.  Before that, however, I have to ditch the stupid leg brace, and in order to do that, I have to be able to lift my left leg off of the ground from a sitting position.  I have no freakin’ excuse not to be able to do this.  I’m a cyclist for crying out loud, all I have are quad muscles.  Anyways, it’s really frustrating not to be able to lift my leg, but it still hurts like hell since there is a fancy little screw in my kneecap.  I’ll get there though.  I’m shooting for next Tuesday (not this coming Tuesday, although that would be fabulous) which is three weeks after the surgery.

I hope everyone reading had a great Halloween.  Among my favorite costumes: Joe Dirt (Kyle’s costume), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Scuba Shah Nay Nay (friend of Scuba Steve),  Yoda, and Corn (the food – think yellow balloons).  Unfortunately, I didn’t charge the batteries in my camera, so you’ll just have to imagine.

Until next time, Adios.