The major difference between these two surgeries (besides the actual type of surgery) is the fact that after this one I feel so good. I am just waiting for my body to catch up with the rest of me so that I can start training. At this point after Surgery 1 I was still dragging my leg around with me. Now I can officially do stairs. At least going up. Going down requires a lot of weight on the hand rail.
Two weeks out from surgery: I have full range, less swelling and mushy quads. Just the quads. Everything else is still strong. It will get better but it is going to take a while. I've been told by my PT that June 15 is the day I can go back to running. So long. I'll be on the elliptical before then and that is almost like running. Sort of.
I'm in PT twice a week right now and I fit in one extra day of lifting on my own (just to give those a little extra oomph). The other days I've been on the trainer pedaling away. The more I pedal the better it feels so as long as I keep the resistance low I can spin, spin, spin.
Another thing I am dealing with is some swelling around the port sites that do not want to go down.
I got the idea from PT to start adding some extra compression with gauze and tape.
Then I place the compression sleeve over the entire thing. It just helps to keep everything down. Yesterday, it looked like it was starting to go down so I ended up leaving the tape on overnight. The only time I have been taking it off is to do my stretching because the tape pulls on the main incision and it is still a little tender.
I've got a great collection of compression stockings and sleeves. This one is from Zensah but the main ones I use are just some cheaper compression hose that I got from PT that you can cut whatever length you want. They come in different degrees of compression so I tend to wear a lighter compression one at night.
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