I was supposed to go to physical therapy today, but we decided it was just going to be a bad experience. Since just getting up to go to the bathroom is still such a task and painful, going all the way to PT was not going to be good. Plus, I still feel weak, like I'm on the verge of passing out when I get up, so being up for that long makes passing out for real a lot more likely situation.
My pain is still the same, and obviously moving is still just as difficult. I'm supposed to be backing down on the ice machine (I have a machine that circulates new cold water to my knee, it hooks up to a cooler type thing with a water/ice mixture) but when the ice is off my knee gets a very hot feeling inside. Overusing the ice can delay superficial healing, which means my incision. I had problems with that on my other knee last year, it really isn't a huge problem, I just had to keep my stitches in longer on one part of my incision. That can also give you a bigger scar, but because of EDS my scars are never perfect anyways. So, I'm working on backing off on the ice, but it's not a major priority, if I can get some pain relief from it then I'll use it. I've been turning it off at night, and saving it for the day which seems to be working.
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