I’ve been in Physical Therapy three times a week, and things are improving.  I am slowly improving a little each day.  This week I started my daily walks again.  I’m up to about a mile a day so far, with a break or two during each walk.  This makes things interesting, since I need a place to sit down for a few minutes halfway or 1/3 and 2/3 of the way through my walk, so I’ve been trying to walk in places with frequent benches along the way, like on the lakefront.

Socks has been coming with me, which is good for both of us.  He hasn’t gotten out much lately, and since he has slowed down much more these days, right now our pace is just about the same, making our walks comfortable for both of us.   Aside from the frequent face-plants (mainly when we come upon a curb drop-off–Socks apparently doesn’t see these coming sometimes and is unprepared for them) he does pretty good considering he can’t see or hear much.  It seems like he sure can smell things though, and he sure enjoys sucking up all of the different smells he can during our walks.  When I eventually pick up the pace and start walking two miles again, I’m pretty sure I’ll have to leave him home when I walk, but I’ll most likely be taking those walks during my one-hour lunches at work most weekdays anyway, so it won’t matter that much.

I have to get up and move around at least once every 30 minutes, otherwise my knee tends to get stiff in whatever position I keep it in.  Three weeks after surgery I was allowed to stop wearing the compression stockings, but it seems the swelling started to return this week, so I’m back to wearing them again.  They sure squeeze the crap out of my calves and sometimes itch like crazy, but my therapist insists they’re helping a lot, so I’ll keep wearing them as long as I have to.

Kevin, Matt and I are going to see the first showing of Venom tonight!  We’re all excited for it, and we’ll all have our Venom gear on, hoping for a photo op somewhere in the theater, preferably with a Venom display backdrop.  I just hope my need to move around every 30 minutes doesn’t bother anyone else in the theater tonight.  I think I might be OK just re-adjusting my legs in the luxury lounger once in awhile though, instead of having to get up and walk around every time.  I sure hope so, I don’t want to miss any of the movie.