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John, glad to hear you are making progress each week. Very encouraging when each week brings incremental achievements!I had my 5 week post op visit last week Thursday with the PT and OS. ROM had improved from 20 to 30 in that time frame, and OS wants me to keep ROM at 30 until 7 weeks post op due to my poor tissue quality. I am fine with that, and this past Saturday, my knee recovery took a back seat...Saturday night I woke up with chest pain and shortness of breath. My wife took me to ER, and they admitted me with low oxygen saturation, high pulse, low blood pressure and the above symptoms. A CT scan show that I had a sub-massive saddle embolism in the artery from my heart to lungs, and several smaller blood clots in both lungs. Apparently, due to having to keep my leg immobilized, my femoral vein suffered many blood clots (DVT) which broke away and traveled to my lungs. Very scary time, but am finally home recovering. It baffles me that after surgery, it is not standard procedure to prescribe blood thinners to prevent clots from forming.So, a short derailment. Even while in hospital, I was able to work on ROM and do quad sets. After week 7 I will be allowed to push my knee past 30 towards 90 degrees, so can't wait for that. Learning to walk and breathe again. Never expected this, but life does not always go how we expect it to go, as all of you on this forum have experienced. Will continue posting and reading here, great source of info and support.Terho