I am a little at a loss right now. I did not take any pain pills yesterday once up and moving and I really had no trouble with the afternoon exercises. Yet once I laid down for the night my leg tour me up. I finally gave up and took a pain pill about midnight and again at 5 o'clock it woke me and I took another. Why is the pain at night. Once up at 6 I took the shower that I had been putting off for fear of getting in and out of the tub. Really wasn't bad, so I don't need to stink anymore. After breakfast I decided to go for a walk. Took a while to get the trash gathered and out. Several boxes of Santa Clause type stuff and the trash bags all had to go out front for the trash truck, which met, up and down the stairs. It went all right. Now for the walk, I went up the street and down the back side of the post office, hum, there was the rec room with the pool table. I went in, put all the balls on the table in no particular order, picked out a pool stick and started taking my time shooting the balls into the little holes along the edge of the table. Been a long time but I enjoyed every shot. I know that some one was moving the holes after I shot, I could not of missed that many shots on my own. While shooting I did attempt to stretch the leg straight and bend the knee its max as the shots needed. After I walked on down around the end of the street and back to my place. I was on the leg for over an hour, and yes it is not real happy about that, it will just have to live with it because I intend to make it stand around the pool table some more in the next couple of weeks. It is now 11 am and I am going to take a couple of pain pills before heading down to pt. Pt is at 2 this afternoon. Think I shall leave a little early and go through a drive through for lunch. --- Being a lover of the famous White Castle, which there are none within 500 miles, the closest thing to them is Krystal. So that is where I went to for lunch. 3 little hamburgers, 1/2 order of fries and a small diet coke. Had a private picnic in the parking lot. Once done with lunch it was time to head on over to PT. This session was a little harder. As soon as getting there I inquired about the overnight pain and Dr Debby told me that it was normal, take a pain pill if you need to. After this I headed to the stepper, same machine I spent a lot of time on over at the VA. Spent about 10 minutes warming up. Spent a little time on the torture machine. The one you pull the lever back bending your knee much father than it is ready to go. All part of getting well. Once off of that machine it was a good session. By the time I got done with the pulling and stretching and the ice pack it was almost 3:30. Dr Debby whispered, "take the rest of the day off" and I thanked her as we set two appointments for Christmas week. Headed home and it was almost 4:30. Before going in I got my cane and walked to the post office box, I was a little more than sore from the pt. Finally got back to the house and just sat down in the lift chair, ran it back and said, Ahhh. I have only been up a couple of times since. One was to pay for a pizza I ordered and the other was to put 3/4 of it in the frig. It is now after 8 and I feel like I have had 40 hour day. Once I head to bed I am taking one of the pain pills so I might sleep through most of the night. That way I will be ready to start the exercises program again in the morning. think I shall head for the bed before long and watch my tv in there until I drift off into the never never land for the night. Till Tomorrow.
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