back at work today after working from home yesterday. SO glad i worked from home on friday, i should have done that on thursday as well. but with quarter end and all, i thought i could handle going into the office.

went to the doctor yesterday and thankfully he took off all my bandages. ahhhh freedom. my knee is swollen like a log, and the incision that he said he'd have to make slighty bigger so that he could drill in the screw better looks to be like three times bigger (although i can't clearly see since there's still all those white strips on it. but by the blood stains on the white strips, it sure appears to be a lot longer than before). the three other scars he reopened for the scope aren't quite fully closed yet although he took out the stitches, so they're still bleeding a little.

i can't really tell yet, but so far my knee feels SO MUCH better. don't get me wrong, i'm still on crutches and stuff, my flexion has been set back some, and i have to work on my darn quad muscles again, but i can still fully extend, and it's so much less painful to do so! my doctor told he he basically just drilled in the screw all the way until it was flush to the bone, and then he didn't see anything wrong during the scope but cleaned out my knee. cleaning out my knee sure makes a big difference.

so now i have a month to work extra hard on my PT so that i have a fighting chance to make it to spain. it's funny how if you asked my six months ago, i would have said - 4 months after ACL surgery? no problem! i can totally make it! i was fine last time 4 months post-op! hrm. who knew all this would happen. let's hope... no, let's pray that my PT goes a lot faster this time around!!