I DID IT!!! Three months early, at my six month check up, I was finally cleared and released for full activity!! I was given boundaries, but unfortunately because of the state of my knees, they are boundaries that I will have to live by for forever.
As I have mentioned before, this was my 4th knee surgery. Two on the left, two on the right. My left leg had this reconstruction when I was a young 15-year-old girl. I thought for sure that after having so many bone spurs, torn meniscus, etc, that my left knee would be by far my worst of the two. I was sadly mistaken.
My knee surgeon wants to see me a MINIMUM of once a year from now on due to the 'dent' that was in the base of my femur in my right knee. He is confident that the arthritis will get significantly worse as time goes on...especially if I do not live within my newly administered boundaries. So, here they are...
*No more running for exercise, only for sport. Which will already be broken...I like to do all that I can for breast cancer awareness and October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In Roseville, there is a small 5K so I'm signing up!!
*No more walking long distances. Awesome. Now THAT should be easy. Or not.
*No deep squats.
*No more deep lunges...unless I am extremely careful on my technique, which I am.
*He asked that I not play soccer, but he and I both know...riiiggghhhhtttt.
And I'm off!!! Back to my workouts baby!!!! I'll be easing back into them, of course...but I can wait!!!
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