Day 6: Back to work
I’m walking a bit, but decided to take my crutches to work anyway today. I dilligently spent my 4-6 hours a day ok the CPM over the long weekend,but only had about 30 minutes to work on it this morning.
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Any bruising? I had my ACL repaired last Monday (2 days before you) and my foot and thigh are black and blue and there is a long green bruise down the back of my knee and calf as well as bruises all about the knee. None of which popped up before day 5 postop. I had a hamstring graft and also some meniscus work - actually alot of that, I had a microfracture repair. You? I see that you had an allograft and tore your ACL before (same knee I guess). I had an allograft the last time on my other knee. This time I opted for the hamstring.
Not much bruising at all. I had just a little tear on my meniscus this time (the first time i had a lot of tearing) that they were able to trim pretty easily.
I took pictures at the Doctor’s today while the dressing was off, i’ll post them this evening.
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Just wondering… did you go back to work with the brace too?