1st week after surgery
Tuesday, Nov. 27th
Today is his first appointment for physical therapy. They had him try and bemd his knee, which put him in tears. He said mom I can't do this. The therapist stopped and said I qant you to just work on that at home as long as its comfortable. He hooked a machine up to him that gave his leg a jolt feeling. It was to try and retrain his leg muscles to work. He had him practice 3 different exercises and told him to practice at home 3x a day. The physical therapist said he wanted Kylers goal this week to be strengthing his leg so that he could lift it on his own. He still has to keep his leg locked straight in the brace for 4 weeks, but can unlock it when he does the exercises to help it bend a little more.
Kyler wanted to try sleeping in his bed and we told him it wouldn't work because he still needed help getting up out of the chair.
He said he would figure out a way so he came up with this idea...
Everytime he had to use the bathroom he would have to unhook the ice, use his clever idea to get out of bed, then get back in bed and hook the ice back up. It seemed like to much for him, since we had been doing it all and I didnt think it would work. But we gave it a try. He got up the stairs, we moved everything to his room and then said if he needed anything he could call us still. At 3:30 in the morn we got that call. He was crying his leg hurt and wantes to go back downstairs on the recliner, so we moved everything back down and he seemed better. I think he was too flat on his back and his leg still needs to be elevated. But...we were all able to get back to sleep.
Wednesday, Nov. 28th
After doing his exercises today, it felt like I wasn't doing much to help. I said kyler I think you're doing it on your own, he laughed and said mom stop. I said I'm serious watch and I put the strap down and he was able to finish the last 3 completely on his own. You can see how big the smile was on his face.
Today is his first appointment for physical therapy. They had him try and bemd his knee, which put him in tears. He said mom I can't do this. The therapist stopped and said I qant you to just work on that at home as long as its comfortable. He hooked a machine up to him that gave his leg a jolt feeling. It was to try and retrain his leg muscles to work. He had him practice 3 different exercises and told him to practice at home 3x a day. The physical therapist said he wanted Kylers goal this week to be strengthing his leg so that he could lift it on his own. He still has to keep his leg locked straight in the brace for 4 weeks, but can unlock it when he does the exercises to help it bend a little more.
Kyler wanted to try sleeping in his bed and we told him it wouldn't work because he still needed help getting up out of the chair.
He said he would figure out a way so he came up with this idea...
Wednesday, Nov. 28th
After doing his exercises today, it felt like I wasn't doing much to help. I said kyler I think you're doing it on your own, he laughed and said mom stop. I said I'm serious watch and I put the strap down and he was able to finish the last 3 completely on his own. You can see how big the smile was on his face.
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