Hi -

Crankerchick, you certainly didn't sound perky or annoying or anything of the sort! Everything you wrote was right on the mark.

In my head I know you are right. I've got to just find out if it's fixed - push it and see...and live with whatever happens. I am just prolonging finding out - and since it IS fixed, it's so true that I am robbing myself of time with a great, functional knee. When I don't want to do things, friends think it's because my knee must hurt. It's so hard to explain that it totally DOESN'T hurt - it just feels weird, and sometimes I'm just exhausted from fighting to move/walk normally. I often repeat in my head, "I'm so over this. I'm so over this. I'm so over this."

I think the problem is that in my rehab we skipped some basic steps. I could squat and jump before the surgery - just about anything that kept the knee bent, and therefore stable. I could swim 2km, no problem. I biked 12km to work every day. What I couldn't do was walk properly or stand on that leg with it fully extended, with quad contracted (i.e., tree pose in yoga).There is a basic foundation that I am missing. My new physio and are going to start attacking that this week.

As for plyometrics - you are right about needing to get "moving". I like stable, isometric exercises - which will only get me so far. However, I am starting with a personal trainer this week. We are going to start slow and see where things go. I'm going to stick with this to the bitter end! I have to get this left leg working to its full capacity...because the right knee is twitching with a sneaky sense of instability and it needs to be fixed too.

Thank you for the inspiring words.

Hooligan

WorkinWings, thanks for remember my 2-year untwisting day or as I called it, my Happy Straight-leg Birthday. It's funny, I was doing something on Wednesday and thought, "Whoa, what day is it? Is it past the 20th?!" Then I looked at the calendar and breathed a sigh of relief that I hadn't missed my straight-leg birthday.

It's nice not to think about that knee anymore. What a blessing to almost forget that 2 years ago I was giving some bald head doctor dude the evil eye as he made me bend my leg only moments after opening my eyes from surgery.

Thanks for remembering and thanks for your words. Sorry it took me a while to respond, but as they say, folks tend to stay away from here once they are out enjoying their fixed parts.

Happy 2-year straight leg birthday to me!

Special thanks to the folks on here for helping to save me from the clutches of those with less knowledge on this topic and super special thanks to Dr. Mark Sanders and all the folks at the Sanders Clinic for doing what they do best, and better than the rest, day in and day out.

Rock on.

She gives a pretty good pep talk, too. I see a career in
Motivational speaking.

I don't know if anyone even still reads this thread anymore, but I've posted an update (a positive one) in the PF section. I won't repeat it here, but here's a link to it.
http://www.kneeguru.co.uk/KNEEtalk/index.php?topic=59747.msg577089#msg577089