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Congrats, MaineSkiLady!
- Thread starter Severine
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atlantiqueen
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!
Weekend after Easter? Maybe with Haylmom and her DD?
Weekend after Easter? Maybe with Haylmom and her DD?
MaineSkiLady
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
Thanks, all! :D
Hi, AQ, nice to "see" you online!!
Yeah, wow, it was awesome.
Sev, check your back to ortho thread, I included more detail.
AQ, mine was a GRADE 2 LCL, left
!!! How did ortho miss this?????
Lots of niggling right knee issues, THANK GOODNESS this pt LISTENED. It's not like I didn't make myself a broken record twice previously.
I think this is part of the problem with doctors, etc. THEY DON'T LISTEN.
Anyway, I'm SO HAPPY to be easing back in. Have to go do my rx'd exercises, they are fine, easy and fun.
Can't say this enough:
NO KNEE PAIN-NO KNEE PAIN-NO KNEE PAIN
PT LOVES the chopat knee support. I've had it for years.
AQ, I was out when you called, got home too late to call you back. Hope we can chat before you leave for Utah!
Wishing all fellow divas the same happy results. It ain't perfect or totally over yet, but I'm on my way BACK, BABY!
Hi, AQ, nice to "see" you online!!
Yeah, wow, it was awesome.
Sev, check your back to ortho thread, I included more detail.
AQ, mine was a GRADE 2 LCL, left
!!! How did ortho miss this?????Lots of niggling right knee issues, THANK GOODNESS this pt LISTENED. It's not like I didn't make myself a broken record twice previously.
I think this is part of the problem with doctors, etc. THEY DON'T LISTEN.
Anyway, I'm SO HAPPY to be easing back in. Have to go do my rx'd exercises, they are fine, easy and fun.
Can't say this enough:
NO KNEE PAIN-NO KNEE PAIN-NO KNEE PAIN
PT LOVES the chopat knee support. I've had it for years.
AQ, I was out when you called, got home too late to call you back. Hope we can chat before you leave for Utah!
Wishing all fellow divas the same happy results. It ain't perfect or totally over yet, but I'm on my way BACK, BABY!
MaineSkiLady
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
working on it
Easing back into exercise here, and how hard to get trained, and how freakin' FAST it all goes away....Previously immobilized leg is like jello. Did some stationary bike and set off my sciatic nerve (what a basket case 
). But---all in the name of a Triumphant Return. Which I seriously intend to happen on/before Easter weekend.
Need to find new aerobics class w/o a step involved - physical therapist cringed when some of the step moves were demonstrated. Not only stressful to the normal knee, but downright damaging to vulnerable ones. Oops.
Also need to figure out why 2 diagnoses came in as no ligament involvement with regard to tears, and the third said not one but 2 tears, one a grade 2.
Guess it depends on who does the tweaking?? Opinion #4 comes on 3/27. Let's see just how many separate diagnoses I can get from the same injuries.....
Easing back into exercise here, and
how hard to get trained, and how freakin' FAST it all goes away....Previously immobilized leg is like jello. Did some stationary bike and set off my sciatic nerve (what a basket case ). But---all in the name of a Triumphant Return. Which I seriously intend to happen on/before Easter weekend. Need to find new aerobics class w/o a step involved - physical therapist cringed when some of the step moves were demonstrated. Not only stressful to the normal knee, but downright damaging to vulnerable ones. Oops.
Also need to figure out why 2 diagnoses came in as no ligament involvement with regard to tears, and the third said not one but 2 tears, one a grade 2.
Guess it depends on who does the tweaking?? Opinion #4 comes on 3/27. Let's see just how many separate diagnoses I can get from the same injuries.....
Severine
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
Do you think something like a Walk Away The Pounds DVD would be helpful? It's not just walking in place, but it's pretty low-impact. Better than sitting on the couch.
Hypocrite that I am, I should be easing myself in with that, too... but alas, I'm still waiting on my call for my appt. I don't even want to look at myself in a full-length mirror right now. 4 weeks of near inactivity really takes its toll.
Hypocrite that I am, I should be easing myself in with that, too... but alas, I'm still waiting on my call for my appt. I don't even want to look at myself in a full-length mirror right now. 4 weeks of near inactivity really takes its toll.
MaineSkiLady
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
Actually, I've been moving around, ever since I got the green light - but doing only what PT says. Lots of upper body stuff has been ongoing. I only lasted 3 days of the original rx for 3 WEEKS in immobilizer and even those 3 days jello'd that leg. I just couldn't hack it. Turns out that it apparently was long enough to settle out sprain #1. Lots of 45 degree angle wall-sits, other stuff. Walking's good, I'm thrilled to be up and down 2 flights of stairs again. But the question of cardio will come next visit, I guess.
MaineSkiLady
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
He actually said I technically COULD go as of the 3 week date, which is this Sunday.....(HELP )---but I'm probably going to wait until sometime next week. Gotta listen to the body, get the left leg moving again. Feel like I've been lying around for months, ugh.
)---but I'm probably going to wait until sometime next week. Gotta listen to the body, get the left leg moving again. Feel like I've been lying around for months, ugh.
MaineSkiLady
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
Ya think? I've been to 3 people and gotten 3 different stories. Which troubles me a LOT. As much as I'd rather not have both LCL's torn, I'm leaning toward believing the PT. Shows you how much variability there is w/manipulation, how they do it, what they feel, what they think it is (or isn't).
Bottom line: will listen, first and foremost, to ME.
Severine, please let me (all of us) know what transpires w/yours.
MaineSkiLady
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
post script: the good, and at least CONSISTENT, news: all 3 said both ACL's fine. However, physical therapist did mine twice, then commented that they were so tight, he could not believe I had ever set foot on skis!
Hmmm, too bad this good ACL trait wasn't passed down to my next generation.... .....but his patella tendon substitutes seem to be holding up fine (he's in UT right now).
Hmmm, too bad this good ACL trait wasn't passed down to my next generation....
.....but his patella tendon substitutes seem to be holding up fine (he's in UT right now).
MaineSkiLady
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
Funnier yet: one of the prescribed exercises is most DEFINITELY a forward bend --- no snap included, but I suppose I could incorporate. Alas, UPS all done here (for now?).
MaineSkiLady
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
Yeah, it's way dumb. #4 is from The Head Honcho Ortho himself, Dr. Brown (no, not BTTF's Dr. Brown!). Douglas W Brown, MD. Let's see what his take on it is. At this point, I'm collecting diagnoses.
Good grief....when my son had his, Vail Medical emergency (at base) did one tweak and said, yep, grade 3 ACL. And yours was probably equally readily identifiable. Not that it's good, but at least it's one diagnosis....
num, what's going on w/you and your knee??
num
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
Currently frustrated, because one of the receptionists of the ortho I decided to go with somehow screwed up booking my surgical consult (which was for next week), and just let me know today. It's problematic because he's going out of town and booked solid before then, and won't be able to see me til mid April. I'll be calling and seeing if there are cancellations, or if another receptionist can hook me up at all (the one I'd talked to previously was quite helpful). I don't wanna just sit around on it. If I could see him and make a plan for PT and have surgery scheduled before he goes out of town, I'm happy. I don't want to wait a month to get the ball rolling though, so if I can't get something sooner with them, I'm looking elsewhere.
MaineSkiLady
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
But----she's gotta get diagnosed first! Shopping cures. Just heard from atlantiqueen in Freeport, ME, that National Bike and Ski has double Sportubes for $90, singles for $60???
Might be a serious shopping trip in MY near future :D Ah, endorphins....sigh....
