Injury Update! The Second Surgery and Beyond!

How about my new training partner?

                           Not exactly my first choice, but its a start in the right direction!

                                             I'd much rather be riding this outside!

However, If I were to fall while trying to get my foot out of the clip less pedal, there is a good chance I'll break something again.  After 5 months, I'm still amazed that I'm using a walker and crutches to get around.  When will this end........ 

The Second Surgery....... 

The days are just blowing by.    Right now I have about 115 degree of total movement through "Doc's" forced manipulation.  Under my own strength, I can bend my leg about 95 degrees.  115 degree is the equivalent of sitting in a chair and letting my leg hang down with my feet flat on the floor.  Not exactly what I was expecting this far into the game.  Note:  this  much degree in movement was not all my doing.  I had to have another surgery 3 weeks ago.  They knocked me out and stuck a probe in my leg to look at the knee. As explained by my doctor's,..... X rays do not give a clear description of what is going on.  Apparently,  neither would a ct scan?.  Guess the medal in my leg would distort it???  So anyhow one screw was removed, as they felt it was interfering with the knee joint.  Then from the Doc's description, they put my leg over his shoulder and with the bottom side of my knee resting on his shoulder, he then grabbed ahold of my ankle and pulled my leg/foot down to his waist.  The nurse said the noise the knee joint made was indescribable????  Boy I'm glad I was out cold for that procedure. HAHAHA! 

 Congrats Mr Scott, you got 115 degrees of movement, now go home and immediately continue to bend your leg to maintain what we just got.  Oh yeah, you also have an appointment to See George tomorrow for your physical therapy.  GREAT!   

 So, as of right now, Im going to physical therapy 4 days a week.  Nice.....George my physical therapist is just kicking my ass.  The first 20 to 30 minutes of the visit is gnarly.  I'm taking four Percocet 10/325 pain pills about 30 min before visit.  Thats is so much pain med.,  that Im nearly incoherent and almost in a painless state.  I can barely control my mind and body functions.  But the pain during George's forceful manipulation. Oh man, I cant even begin to tell you how bad it hurts even loaded up as much as I am.    According to the "Doc" it is necessary if I want to regain at least 50 to 70 percent use of my leg by the time its over.  George does not mess around.  I dread the visits.  It's the same thing every visit.  I lay on the table, George puts my leg over his shoulder and yeap, you guessed it.  FORCED Manipulation!  I tell you the pain. Damn, I'm in tears and yes screaming.  At one point I went back to my "Doc" and said enough.  I cant take it any more. What else can we do?  "Doc" told me strait up.  If you want to get movement in the leg again you gotta suck it up.  Otherwise your gonna be stuck with a stiff leg and walking with a cain for the rest of your life......  And that is how I got to taking 4 pain pills at a time.  "Doc" said that was as many as he would consider safe.  He was also quick to point out that almost all patients that have gone through this sort of deal give up and assume a permanent disability...... It's your choice he said...  As was also stated by George....

Excuse my language, but FUCK that!  That would be the easy way out and an unnecessary debt to society!  My mom did not raise a Quitter, and my family does not deserve that either.  Besides that I could not live with myself in that condition.

In the weeks that have come and passed, I transitioned from the "pain table" to the hospital Gym where I have been walking on a treadmill backward, riding a stationary bike, doing leg presses, and stretching in an effort to begin to teach my left leg how to walk again and rebuild from atrophy.  Such Fun.  Hell, I liked the stationary bike so much, I decided to buy one to ride at home.  It took quite awhile, but that purchase was well worth the expense.  I started out riding with the seat as High as possible. I could barely pedal one revolution without crying in pain.  But, after the first week things have started to come together, and the leg is bending a little more with less pain. I just keep dropping the seat height and pedaling like a mad man.  So far, It's worth stating, I'm happy, I chose to stick it out thus far....