Day 11 - Post Surgery

Okay, I have to post a few victories:

• Yesterday, I did leg lifts with ankle weights on my bad leg and used a weight machine.
  
  
• I rode the exercise bike and was able to bend my knee enough to actually pedal all the way around.
  
  
• I got on the scale this morning and it is down from where I was before surgery (thank goodness, I've been trying to be really careful, but I can't remember the last time I was this sedentary for this long.)
  
  
• I get to go back to work on Monday (I know, it sounds like a strange victory, but I am looking forward to a little bit more "normal" slipping back into my life.)
  
  
• I figured out a way to "roll over" in the giant leg brace that I have to sleep in--it felt so good to sleep on my side for a little bit.
  
  
• ....and last but not least, at Christmas, my in-laws bought my husband and I season passes to ride roller coasters this year. (Yeah, I know, we are 37 years old--but this stuff keeps us young.) Due to an amusement park merger, one pass now gets you into a bunch of parks. Before the season is through, we plan to hit Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, Dorney Park in Allentown, PA, King's Island near Cincinnati, Ohio and maybe, just maybe, Knott's Berry Farms in California (which becomes Knott's Scary Farms near Halloween). I actually feel good enough to start thinking about riding roller coasters again! I think that is a really good sign.