I was back to crutches on Thursday. Was doing much better, although swelling is mostly gone in the lower legs, it is pushed to the top by the knee-high compression stockings.

On Wed night I had to walk a lot - in a snowstorm - without crutches as they had a national funeral going on and they decided to close many streets in the heart of Montreal, which meant my husband could not pick me up at work like he usually does. So I had to walk down a hill in the snow. My whole leg was killing me to cry. So next day I had crutches and back on the strong dosage of Aleve. Husband drove me to work also.

PT appointement was Thursday night and she did miracles again. She told me to get back on 1000mg of Aleve for now, keep icing, and warm baths, get some thigh high more than 20mmhg compression stockings. It would help all the synovial liquid to get resorbed faster. She gave me a few more exercises to help everything out. For the next week, no cycling on trainer, no snowshoveling. But I have to use the roller to roll on the back of whole leg, some light squatting (if knee tolerates it since it is swollen), and a few more things to get my legs to be stronger. And to use crutches for longer distances. At home and once at work, I can go without them if I do not have to walk for.

So now I wear all day long (removed nights) the compression stockings, back on Aleve full strength, etc. And so far so good. I don't have a lot of pain and can walk better.

She is off to Hawaii for 2 weeks but if I must see someone before her return, my file is with another PT (the boss of clinic and she used to be my PT at the time). So I'm good. Now we only try to maintain the "shape" I'm in. There is no way like she says that I can push it. I start my Christmas vacation next Friday and she said that once I'm more rested (during my vacation) we'll introduce some cycling and a bit more to my routine to make it more fun. But for now, I listen and only do what she said: rest, elevate, ice, do the excercises given and enjoy the time of not having much to do. hihi

But it is going to be a long wait to return to my previous activities. So better arm myself with patience. Which I have little of to start off with. hihi