As you can tell, I let time get away from me and didn’t get around to posting a 3-week update. Things are going well; I started steps late last week (going up … still not quite ready to go down without a lot of support). The physical therapist started me on sit-squats today (start to sit down, but as soon as your butt taps the bench, stand back up!). Oi vey – I don’t know how many of those I could have done before the knee problems, but I managed to do three sets of 10 today.

Week 3.5 after meniscus repair

I am very excited about the upcoming weekend, because it will be the four-week mark, which means that I can swim! Hooray! 🙂 I may also take a luxurious bubble bath, just because I can.

I have progressed to the recumbent bike and am doing some leg machine exercises with a little bit of weight. Most of my “homework” exercises from physical therapy are geared toward rebuilding leg strength, as well as stretching the knee. I think it will be a while before I can leg-press 730 lbs again, but perhaps I’ll get there, eventually! 😉

I feel a little self-conscious going into the Y and moving the weights to a teensy-weensy amount, but then I figured what the heck – I don’t have anything to prove to anyone.

All in all, I think I’m doing pretty well. You can see in the pic that there is still quite a bit of swelling, but the sutures are healing nicely, and it doesn’t look like the scars will be too noticeable.