THOU SHALT BE A COMEBACK

Went down in the cold drizzle to watch the Prairie Fire half-marathon.  It was quite a bit of walking and my leg is done for the day.  Good to see my friends out there.  Taking a day off to rest the leg and a few sore core muscles and than tomorrow shall be back at it.

40 minutes at the downtown Y. tried to go rapidly between sets of one-legged pushups and abs to get my heart

rate up at least a little, than did sets of weights with more abs in between.

tried to bend my knee more last night and it felt like something was gonna rip

so I stopped. will have to be patient to do cardio, stationary bike if the knee

bends first or pool of the calf wound heals first. I'm still placing bets on the

knee

My exercise plans got de-railed when me and my daughter got rear-ended after I picked her up from school.  It was minor, and we are fine, but the rest of the evening was spent getting her checked out because she said her head hurt, calling insurance, etc...  I am getting a complex about this getting hit by cars thing.

Went to the downtown Y and made attempt 1 to get on a bicycle. No go, not even

close, the knee doesn't bend that far. I hopped off, dejected, when I spotted a

lonely little machine I have never noticed before. I went over to investigate,

and quickly learned I had found a gem! The seated stepper! You sit on it and

extend your legs and put your feet on the pedals, and then the arm things move

like an elliptical so you can generate most of the force with your arms and you

can make the steps little so your knee doesn't bend too far. I did 30 minutes,

wanted to do more, but decided I would wait and make sure there are no

repercussions with the knee before I do a longer session tomorrow. It's not

running, but it does get my heart rate up at least some! After that did about 45

minutes of abs, arm weights, and push ups

30 minutes on the seated stepper and then got called away.  a close friend of mine was found code blue in the morning, he was resuscitated but won't know for several days if/when he will wake up.  praying, they have a one year old baby and he is only 30.

am:  attempt 3 bicycle.  nope.  45 minutes seated stepper, and then the knee began to bark so went and did weights and abs for 40 minutes

afternoon:  so there is a barely noticeable hitch in my gait when I walk, and when going uphill it disappears.  My ortho DID say weightbearing as tolerated....so, I got on my home mill and set a conservative 4mph, 5 minutes flat, than 5 minutes each at 8%, 9%, 10%, 11%, and 12%.  kept my steps light and quick to minimize impact--no pain.  I feel like I was being a bad patient but there was no pain!!  If there are no repercussions from the knee tomorrow then you betcha I will do more of that!!!

my friend pulled through the night, they are warming him up from a medically induced hypothermia all day today and then we wait for him to wake up.  they said don't expect anything until Monday.