Biggest lesson I learned from my ACL surgery is that:
I OVERestimated how painful the surgery would be (it wasn’t painful at all) and I UNDERestimated how painful recovery would be (first week was difficult).
As I am typing this it is 6pm on day 8 after my ACL surgery.
On day 6 I woke up to some awesome breakfast in bed made by my girlfriend. She has been crazy busy with her Doula business, work, and she finds time to take care of me. She runs a great website on birth at SilverBirth.com
After breakfast we went over to my parent’s house and visited my cute dog 🙂
I took a shower at my parents’ place and it was hard to balance on one leg! My good leg got so tired from me putting all my weight on it.
Nothing else eventful happened on day 6.
On day 7 my girlfriend came down with a bit of a virus. She was feeling sick. We hung out together most of the day.
Day 8 (today) was special because it was the first time I was able to walk semi-normally without crutches. Check it out:
I have also reduced the amount of pain pills to about 2 per day.
I have been doing my rehab exercises and keeping up with that stuff. My next appointment is for Friday. That’s all to report for now!
If you have any questions or comments feel free to leave them below.
what pain meds were you taking at this point in recovery – opioids or ibuprofen or something else?
Shit, sorry for the late reply! You probably already had the surgery at by now!
This close after the surgery I was taking the pain pills my surgeon prescribed and they were a type of opioids the pain can be high the first week after surgery. I personally would not have been ok with just ibuprofen.