Day 888

12 weeks since surgery. As of today! Tomorrow is my first day back at work. Okay, lets not forget that I have a meaningless, fun job at Gap Body...one that I work barely 3 hours a week at...one that I really only have because of the fabulous discount! I am pretty excited to feel a bit more 'normal' though, and going back to work will help me to do that. Too bad the girls are out of school tomorrow...because work might not happen after tomorrow :( I am feeling good about my leg and its progress...finally. However, it is hard to watch videos of Georges St. Pierra (the UFC fighter) that had ACL surgery the first week of december. Although I am quite aware that he has not only more money then I do to pay of special facilities and physical therapists, I also realize (per his interview) that he had a completely different injury and surgery then I did. He ONLY tore his ACL...he had no damage to anything other ligaments, muscles, etc so he only had to repair his ACL...and he used a allograft patella tendan (aka cadavor ligament). As I think I stated before, I not only tore my ACL completely at the bone (his was shredded at the middle of the ligament, much like my first ACL injury) but I also needed a repair to my meniscus that was sewn and reattached in some places and parts were just removed. Still, I can't help but feel I am far behind when I see him sitting on the edge of a pool, ankle weight on, and thrashing his leg back and forth. There is no way I could do that today, at exactly three months, like his video stated he was at. He also had a roller on the ground and was pushing it inside and out...I don't think I could do that today, either. He was still on crutches, last I saw, at 4 weeks...I had neither a brace or crutch. I did like to see though, that he was like me, and used a CPM machine. I see my doc in a couple weeks...don't think I won't be asking him all this stuff!!!!!