{"id":34069,"date":"2025-10-26T17:19:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/?p=34069"},"modified":"2025-10-26T17:19:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:19:37","slug":"knee-recovery-final-and-doomscrolling-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/knee-recovery-final-and-doomscrolling-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Knee Recovery Final, and Doomscrolling, 28"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"MyS<\/span>o it ended today, Thursday. My physio sessions are over after seven weeks.<\/strong> I achieved 119\u00b0 knee bend and, with a push from the therapist, got to 120\u00b0, the magic number to which patients are directed to aspire, and which usually mark their graduation from therapy. There was no ceremony, simply goodbyes. They should have a bell for people to ring when they finish their course, like radiation departments have for cancer patients who finish their course.<\/p>\n

From now on, I am on my own: I am expected to continue to exercise three times a day until at least late November, the third month after my surgery (I try to, but some days I can only get in two because we have shopping, cooking and housework to do). Then I can reduce the number of times and even some of the exercises \u2014 as long as I continue to progress and gain flexibility and mobility. I could, if I do well enough, reduce them to once a day, but that’s a decision for the future. And after that, I expect to be doing my exercises at least once a day for many more months to come.<\/p>\n

I feel a mix of elation and sadness. I enjoyed attending the sessions because I worked hard there, in the company of the critical eyes of the therapists and other patients. Peer pressure can be very motivating. And the friendly encouragement from the staff helped me improve my style and method. I will miss going to those sessions. But I also feel good that I, at last, accomplished that magic number. My efforts were not in vain.<\/p>\n

I have great respect for the staff in the General and Marine Hospital’s rehabilitation department. They helped get me through this. Kudos and many thanks to them.<\/p>\n

This post is also the end of my regular knee replacement recovery updates because I have graduated from rehab. <\/strong>But fear not: I will continue to post about other issues, just as I will continue doomscrolling and comment on the dictator Trump; the rage-farming Trump mimic Pierre PoiLIEvre; about MAGA politics and the rightwing assault on democracy; about pseudoscience and pseudo-Christians; about woohoo, flat-earthers, and creationists; about books and movies; about my home town; about local, national, and international politics and history; and about anything else that crosses my mind and attention these days. Given that the world seems to be heading in the proverbial hell-in-a-handbasket to its rightwing-implemented totalitarian doom, I expect will always have something to comment on. And maybe I’ll throw in some updates about my knee, too.<\/p>\n

I shared a video from Culture Catz<\/em><\/a> last post. Here’s another. I don’t know where or how he finds the loonies and wingnuts whose video clips he includes, but I admire his effort to capture them. I haven’t the patience to do so. I like this guy because he’s sarcastic and funny, and takes no prisoners among the crazies. Not that these loonies affect me personally, but keep in mind they both vote and breed. And that doesn’t bode well for our collective future (the same concern is true of creationists, anti-vaxxers, and pretty much all of the MAGA and Maple MAGA political parties).<\/p>\n