Seriously?

It’s January 30, 2012. I had ACL surgery last May 2, 2011.

I’m almost 9 months post op and I’ve actually taken a break off working to just focus on getting better. 

I’ve found it difficult to focus on recovery and going to the office, so my boss decided that it was time to for me to get better once and for all. 

I don’t know what has made this harder the second time around, but I’m getting really impatient. 

I go to the gym thrice a week, and I know I’m getting better, but a part of me just wishes that I could wake up one day and have injury free knees.

Sometimes my better knee starts hurting after going to the gym too.  I feel like a lola with arthritis, and I’m only in my 20s. 

I can run, but I’m advised to stick to the treadmill. This time last year I was psyching myself up to running 16k at the Condura Race.  

I have a million and one things to be grateful for and this injury is so petty, but it is my biggest frustration today.  It becomes the thing that I blame for all the things that have gone wrong this year.  

I remember how crappy I felt the first time I was injured, and that was really from a lack of endorphins because I had zero exercise. It does leave you feeling bleh. 

Other knee related news. I’ve always felt that my more recent ACL knee was warmer than the older one, and I proved that it was!

My friend Ed has an infrared thermometer and I used it to measure the surface temperature of both my knees!  New ACL was at least a degree warmer!

I bet the primitive humans never tore their ACLs.

love,

Bertha