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Lunch at Marche. Walk around 313@Somerset, check into hotel. Nap before a huge dinner at Long Beach at the East Parkway Seafood Center. Bamboo Clams, Pepper Crab, Chili Crab, Fried Bread dipped in chili crab gravy. Yum! My knee is tired and I haven’t walked this much since I got injured.  But I’m well fed andContinue reading “Singapore Day 1: Long Beach Seafood Dinner!”

MONDAY May 16 3:00 Arrive at therapy 3:00-3:15 Ice 3:15-3:18 Patellar Mobilization 50 reps 3:18- 3:50 Heel Slides 50 x 90 degrees – ending with 100 degrees 3:50- Quad setting with electrical stimulation- 20 seconds 10 reps 3:57- 4:03 Co contractions 20 seconds 10 reps 4:03- 4:08 – Co contractions with ball squeezing 20 secondsContinue reading “Second week of therapy: Day by day recap”

I’ve graduated from normal heel slides to wall slides. It looks like this! Yay! This was what I did yesterday:Therapy Friday2:50- 3:08ice3:08-3:09 patellar mobilisation3:09-3:16 heel slides 50×90 degrees final reach 105 degrees3:18-3:32- co-contractions with electric stimulation on vmo and rectus femoris 20 seconds x 10 reps, bent and with ball3:34- 3:35 hip flex 50 repsContinue reading “Wall slides for therapy Saturday”

I’ll be absent from therapy for a week because I’m off to Singapore for a family holiday! I’m still limping a bit so I hope the rest of my family walks slightly slower for my sake. I was at the Football Philippines Magazine launch last night, bumped into the my team captain Marielle and updatedContinue reading “Heading off to Singapore with the family next week!”

Just to recap, I had surgery on May 2 (Monday)  then my follow up checkup was on May 4 (Thursday). I pretty much just stayed put at home after surgery because moving around was difficult and it was still painful. I took Arcoxia, the painkiller for 3 days, and antibiotics for a week. As forContinue reading “One week of therapy done. Two weeks after surgery.”

As I’m recovering from my second ACL surgery, I can’t help but come up with a list of regrets from the first one. 1. I should have continued going to the gym. As much as my second injury was an accident, I can’t help but blame myself for being lazy, not maintaining the gym protocol.Continue reading “What I wish I had done after my first ACL injury”

>I don’t really want to meet new people. I just want the old people to meet me again.

> I first learned about Cory Aquino’s passing in Facebook. It’s the first thing I check in the morning, and along than sadness, I felt this sense of relief. I knew she was sick for quite some time, so her passing meant that she didn’t have to suffer and feel pain anymore. I really believeContinue reading “>What’s in a name?”

>I’ts been more than a year since I wrote on this blog and it’s the same for most of my journals. I start then I don’t open it for months then sometimes I just can’t put all my thoughts down to paper… With facebook blogs and multiply blogs, it’s dizzying to have all these optionsContinue reading “>Write some more”