Therapy…

I’m just gonna say OUCH!!! And go curl up in the corner till the good drugs kick in…

Ride a ‘bike’?  Really??? Flexion? It DOESN’T bend that far…

I swear, not only was she trained by the Marquis de Sade, I think she has Vlad the Impaler in her family tree…

Therapist

And that middle European accent asking “Does this hurt?” Just doesn’t help…

When we were finished, she asked, “Oh, did I hurt you?”

“Nope, these are tears of joy that I survived!”

It’s gonna be a long six weeks…

Comments

Therapy… — 16 Comments

  1. I had my right knee worked on in the winter of 1968, back before Orthoscopic surgery.

    I was in the hospital for about a week, including the basic rehab they gave me.

    The first time I went to rehab, they helped me up out of the wheelchair, and got me lined up on the parallel bars to see how far I could walk.

    I took two steps and passed out!

    Not from the pain, but because I’d been in bed, without much movement, for the better part of a week!

    So, hang in there, and grit your teeth, and do what Vlad tells you to do! It hurts now, but you need to put up with it to get back in shape so it doesn’t knock you down for months.

  2. Been where you’re at. I though I knew what bad pain was. Until I started physical therapy after shoulder surgery.
    PT does not stand for Physical Therapy, it stands for PURE TORTURE! I would add an F word between pure and torture but children may read this.
    drjim above, has good advice. “Hang in there and grit your teeth,” Last, don’t be ashamed of the tears that are forced out when grit is the worst, we understand all too well.

  3. And so the fun begins … But heed the advice you’ve been given, and do whatever the de Sadette tells you.

    Ow.

  4. Stress that you’re willing to pay extra for a ‘happy ending’…

      • The dreaded sperm clot is something that must be avoided at all costs. Therapy must take a holistic approach to curing while healing. I may need to send Bambi and Leather over to help him recover.

  5. Miss D. still refers to her therapist in Alaska as “Lucy of the titanium thumbs”. She and I have both had enough post-op physical therapy over the years to wince at the very mention of the term . . .

  6. drjim- I’m lucky, I wasn’t down that long. But I hear what you’re saying…

    Roger- Heard ALL that, and agree!

    Rev- I will.

    LL- A shot to the head ‘might’ be a preferable happy ending… 🙂

    WSF- I know…LOL

    Odysseus- Ouch!

    Peter- I hear that. But as y’all did, I have to go through it! No choice!!!

  7. When I was in the hospital after my Second C-section. It was 545am when the overhead light came on, all I see is a eastern European woman,named Drageeda” ( I kid you not) leaning over me saying she was there to “take my bluud”. Lol. Yea I know. Get well soon my friend.

  8. Keep on getting better. The more it hurts in PT the quicker the recovery, or so it’s been when I’ve gone through it.

    Good luck and just wait until the knee is to the point where you can go out and kick some ass.

  9. Second all the ‘hang in there’ support, with one proviso. Don’t think of it as a six week ordeal. Think of it as learning new exercises that you’ll be doing the rest of you life.

    After my first knee surgery, when I got to feeling better, I slacked off on continuing to do the recommended post-therapy exercises. Big mistake…

  10. I assume you were disarmed before they assaulted you? 🙂

  11. I can thoroughly recommend Navy Neaters Rum for reducing the pain threshold to zero. A drop of Nelson’s blood…

  12. Will you be able to run when she asks “is it safe”?