i went to my doctor today... i still think he brushes off a lot of my complaints about my knee - at first he said i'm fine and everything is normal, but he decided to take xrays of my knee. as i was walking to the xray room and back, i guess he saw how i was walking without any crutches or canes, so we went back to the room, and he told me the following:

-i'm going back on crutches
he would rather me be on crutches and have to put some weight into my hands than limp around without bending my knee properly like i do now.

-he gave me a prescription for anti-inflammatory pills to help reduce the swelling in my knee

-he had me take blood tests to make sure i don't have an infection
at the lab they took a whopping four bottles (two from each arm for some cultures) and two vials (both from the right arm) of blood from me. i think i'm a little blood-deficient right now...

-he had me cancel my PT appts for next week (thank goodness since the only appts i could get next week that didn't conflict with my working hours were 7am!)
since they've been working mainly on muscle strengthening (basically strengthening my quad muscles), he wants me to stop PT for a week and work on my range of motion on my own instead because my knee gets super-stiff and super-sore after every PT session. he said he's not worried about strengthening my muscles yet and wants to see if reducing the stress on my muscles will help with my pain.

anyway, at almost seven-weeks post-op, i feel like i'm severely behind on my rehab. at least the above is a start, and hopefully it'll help. i seriously think i have a lot of scar tissue built up but my doctor didn't really take a look that closely and didn't say anything about it.