Post Op Boredom

There is only so much internet surfing, TV watching, game playing, couch sitting, European bike race watching, book reading, current events staying up with, food eating, that one person can take. Ahhhhh!!! It hasn't even been a week.

ACL reconstructed

Had my surgery yesterday at 1pm or so. This is my right knee ~ 24 hours later. "Looking good" says the orthopedic surgeon and I have to agree. It does look pretty good . Not as swollen as I thought it would be. The night after the surgery was kind of rough. Groggy and slightly off balance. I felt sketchy on the crutches. Sarah would trail behind me , ready to catch me. I waited as long as I could before I got up to go to the bathroom. Eventually when I was able to urinate and was finished I then brushed my teeth . After finishing I got extremely nauseated. I rested my head against the wall and attempted not to fall over. Successful in that my wife eventually prodded me in to taking a medicine for nausea which worked immediately. I then high tailed it 'crutch style' back to my bed.

Today feeling "good". Was able to do my 100 daily push ups and put weight on foot using the crutches with ortho doc's blessing. I go to physical therapy tomorrow and start the work.

King Corn

Seeing the orthopedic surgeon on thursday. In the meantime , I am keeping my knee on corn.

Torn ACL

Skiing yesterday at Keystone and tore my ACL . Initially a severe searing pain was experienced. I was on the slope in the outback and suffered a 10 -15 minute wave of nausea and cold sweat. Amazingly I did not have much pain after the first pain. I was able to ski out of there and rode the gondola down to the base. Iced it with snow the whole way home and kept it elevated the rest of the day. This morning went to the urgent care and had an MRI of the right knee. Diagnosis: torn ACL and tibial plateau avulsion fracture. Surgery in my future and a greatly delayed start to my mountain biking season.

We will see.

01022010

Numbers are cool! 01022010 is cool! Starting to get those miles in. Numbers are cool!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year.

May all your dreams come true.

Walt

Holiday Greetings

Santa Claus riding a bike. Very economical form of travel. I love this ornament. Just got back from Arizona. Full week of riding, running, swimming, and drinking in the sun. Put the tree up up as soon as we got back in town. Made sure this fellow got a premium space on the tree. What do you have to do to succeed like Santa? 1. Plan. 2. Pedal your bike around the world in a joyous mood, while giving presents to all the non-pouting children.

Bam!

Happy Holidays.



Walt