July 6th

I had my 2nd rehab appointment this morning. It went really good. They did the same warm up stretches with me and had me try to take a step. I pretty much didn't have any problems walking. I felt like me knee was a little stiff so it was hard to walk without a limp. The best news was that there wasn't any pain associated with putting weight on it.

They had me go over to the squat machine and do some warm up squats with my body weight for 5 minutes. Then they had me go over to the squat machine with resistance. It was pretty easy. They had me do 2 sets of 15 with light resistance. Next they had me walk backwards for like 6 minutes and then they had me bike for 6 minutes. I finished and they said that we have to remember that you had surgery 5 days ago and we have to take this really slowly.

They told me if I wanted to I could walk around the house without my brace and without my crutches. I took them up on that. Later that day I drove myself from SLC down to Provo and went to FHE. I still wore my brace and crutches because I was outside.

I spent the night at my place in Provo and stayed there and worked until my appointment the next day. I spent the night down in Provo but I didn't have any food so I decided to go shopping. I went to the grocery store but left my crutches and brace in the car. I was going to take the electric wheel chair around but smith's chair was out of batteries so I pushed a cart. I got the essentials: cereal and milk and bananas.