Yay me!

One of my favorite things to do in the mornings when I have nowhere else to be is lie in bed, watch TV and drink tea or coffee in bed. But, being that I'm now non weight bearing, my hands are occupied by crutches and I couldn't think of how to carry my tea in the mornings. If my parents or boyfriend were here, they would bring it for me, but right now, I'm home alone until my best friend comes over later. So I thought about it, and then I figured it out. I have a small cross body bag, went into the kitchen, made the tea in my spill proof travel mug, put it in the bag, and crutched back to the bedroom. I am proud to say I made it without spilling a drop. The bag is also handy for carrying my nook, my phone, pain pills, and all other doodads around the house. And this took me all of one week to figure out! I'll feel silly if other people figured that out sooner, but oh well. At least now I feel like I have some more independence.

My wonderful sister went to a specialty shop yesterday and bought me needlepoint and a huge hunk of yarn. I used to knit scarves, and that was the only thing I knew how to knit. I never needlepointed before, but hopefully it would keep me occupied. I started it last night and it's coming along. It's actually very easy, I don't think I'm doing it completely right, but it looks nice on the "good" side.

I'm now going to take the time to complain about this parasite attached to my leg, aka the knee brace. Since I had the PCL repaired, they don't want my tibia to sag after the surgery since this could stretch the graft, so they put a bunch of those OR towels behind my tibia to keep it forward. Those towels are starting to annoy me so much. They itch, they rub against my leg, I'm ready to go crazy. I put some soft padding at the edge where it's the worst, but I can't really lift my leg very well. I've also got some burning at the incision under the steri strips. The other incisions are teeny tiny, I have just one or 2 stitches keeping those closed, but under the steri strips, it's a bigger incision. And it is burning like crazy, but the rest of the leg doesn't look inflamed, it doesn't feel hot, so I don't think there's an infection. I feel fine otherwise. I'll just mention it to my OS on Thursday's followup.