This morning I re-read my blog from September 2018, 11 weeks since my first Lithuanian Knee.
"Yesterday was the 11th week since my operation. The movement in the knee is still improving although frustratingly slow progress with some days much better than others. This week I have been aware of a dull ache in the left hip after getting lower back pain when I bent over weeding in the garden. I have arranged another session with my physiotherapist for this coming Friday.
Almost every day I continue with my exercises and sessions on our home spin bike. I can now walk the dogs down the beach for a couple of miles without any problems although my fitness levels are still well below what I would like. I try to walk quickly varying the pace so that I can raise my heart rate, things are getting better.
Still finding walking downstairs at times a bit of a challenge but after exercising it does seem to be easier. The left leg swelling seem to occur if I stand and don't move very much but when I am walking it doesn't seem to swell.
So I take confidence in that my left knee recovery was similar and now I have excellent mobility in that left knee.
This morning 13th April, my 70th birthday, Catharine and I spent a leisurly morning before walking into the village to go to pick up, or so I thought, the missing prescription for cream for dry skin around my eye socket. However there was no prescription available but our lovely Pharmasist arranged for me to set up an appointment with her under the 'Common Ailments Scheme' at 12:00 today.
As I had been standing around for some time organising this and the 0.6 mile walk my knee was getting a bit swollen so we were going for coffee at Mojo's owned by a friend of mine Lucy. However there was a significant queue so we ended up going to the new café, expensive but coffee was good.
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