Ok, so today I have to be a little bit better to myself since yesterday I sat up way too much and didn't ice nearly enough. It's not like I was in complete pain, but I wasn't comfortable either. I blame my bad patient misbehavior on the new brace which allowed me to sit upright for longer periods of time than the first one. At any rate, I will be better today :)I'm getting around much better on the crutches, but still wish they were gone. My arms are sore from the crutches and from dragging myself up and down the stairs on my butt. My post op follow up appointment with Dr Anderson is Wednesday so we'll see what he says about bearing weight then. I'll probably still use the crutches some for longer distances, but it sure would be nice not to have to grab them just to walk around the coffee table to turn on the ice machine.
Almost the first thing I did today was ice... see, I'm already a better patient! Here's what it looks like today. Not much change, huh. Ok, so there's some interesting purple color developing, but the swelling looks the same... oh wait that's right... I didn't ice and elevate much yesterday!
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