Release!

I was released from the Olympia Orthopedic Clinic’s care today as well as from Comstock Physical Therapy.  Heading home to Sitka, tomorrow afternoon and should arrive there at dinnertime.

It was extremely unfair to have to fight this crazy liver thing as well as the recovery from the surgery.  If someone could have done it, I was not that someone.  Though I have not gotten through the fatigue associated with my jaundice, the fight now turns on muscle, bone, gristle, and yes, titanium.  I think that I can win this.  According to my therapist, I have excellent range of motion at this point in the process.  I’ve not gotten the back of my knees to be able to touch the bed while lying on my back in decades.  I’ve not been able to track my left leg straight from hip to floor in 15 years.

All of this has left quads, hamstrings, calves (my poor calves are gone!) and Achilles tendons a mess that needs to be straightened out, mostly literally.  Then try to build up some bulk.  I’m told that the replacements I have gotten are rated for 135 degree bending.  I may be able to do some yoga poses that I could not in any way approximate.  Right now, I can bend to 105 degrees, tops.  If I can get 1 degree of bend improvement per week, I might be able to get to 135 degree bend in six months or so.  Good goal!  Let’s see if we can make it happen between the local PT folks and the family pushing me along.