Day 5 (and 6) after surgery ..

so day 5 was probably the most painful day of all so far. Not very sure why, but might have been due to my "long" walk on day 4 (which had a decent downhill component). Anyway got up at 3:00 am and was quite uncomfortable (bordering on pain, i think) till 6:30 am. I finally asked mari to help me take a shower with the hope of improving things. It did help a bit but not a lot. I also removed both the support and compression bandage for an hour or so and that seemed to help a lot.

The rest of the day was quite similar. Was not really a happy person yesterday. We went to Phu and Tamar's house in Portola valley after school today. The kids had a good time especially when the sprinklers came on. I started hurting a bit towards the latter part and we hurried back home.

Had a great sleep last nite (removed the compression bandage also). Maybe it was a combination of lack of sleep and the wine etc, but things look real good and up today. The pain has decreased considerably and hopefully things will be better from here on out .... Its amazing how different your mood/attitude is after a good sleep :)

Have been doing a fair amout of physical therapy. Do a set of exercises approx 3 times a day (ankle streches, leg lifts and knee bends). So far things are looking good on that front.