May 292011
Breakfast
banana bread french toastLyn
Today, we had a birthday party to go to for a girl who turned 4 today. The party was at our local park. So, my activity for the day was walking to and from the party for a total of just over a 1/2 mile plus standing around at the party. Oh, and a few (not many) PT exercises.
Mostly, today was just about friends and family. Enjoy the day in pictures.
Here’s Stephen on the bike with Nick and Sally in the trailer arriving at the park.
Sally sliding across with help. Nick laughing down the slide.
Most of the kids at the party.
Time to sing!
The birthday girl enjoying her favorite pastime.
Next up: another party tomorrow and some more PT exercises.
Today started out like a regular day. The kids and I headed to the J and I did a mostly rehab workout.
The workout:
I’m starting to feel a ton better. My knee is most sore after kitchen work with the side to side motions. As long as I don’t do lateral moves, it’s doing great! Physical therapy works.
After our trip to the J (and a side trip to get Nick’s glasses fixed AGAIN!), we headed to John Carroll University to meet up with Lisa. She writes a blog called Life After Losing at http://www.itsjustlisa.com/. She actually went to high school with my husband. One day he said, I think you’d like this blog and the rest is history! We enjoyed our packed lunch in the cafeteria with the kids. We talked about FitBloggin’ and blogs and enjoyed our time together.
Next up: day off of planned exercises, but will try to do a few of the physical therapy exercises throughout the day
Today, the kids and I headed to the JCC. We were under a bit of a time crunch since we had to meet a contractor at our house at 11am.
My goal was two fold: let the kids play and do my physical therapy exercises
Here’s the workout:
I’m a bit sore in the quads and that’s better than being sore in the knee.
Next up: arm workout and pool exercises in the morning
Today, I had a land exercise session with my new physical therapist. As you may recall, I had my initial evaluation done at the Cleveland Clinic main campus. So, aside from my water session last week, this is my first therapy session at the Beachwood office.
The therapist knew what he was doing, but he didn’t have much of a personality. It was all business and no talk. It was boring. I did get a few new exercises to do including calf raises, clam shells, step ups and balancing on one leg. It was nice because I was actually working (sweating) during the session. The therapist thought I could probably take a spin class (taking it easy) in a week or two. Since Monday is Memorial Day and the following week, my husband is having surgery, I’ll definitely be able to spin on June 13th. I hope to start doing more upper body work next week. Also, I hope to try the elliptical on Friday.
For the most part, my knee is feeling much better. It gets sore if I do too much and the lateral movement is still painful. I just need to rest and strengthen and be patient.
Next up: water exercises in the morning (along with all of the prescribed PT exercises)
This was not the greatest food day.
BreakfastToday, the kids and I headed to the JCC and I was determined to get some sort of workout, even with my knee problem.
I’m a bit gun shy to try to do any weights (even upper body). I’m hoping that I’ll feel more like it next week. I’m trying to focus on rest and rehab. It’s really hard to rest.
I did 20 minutes on the Nu Step today. It really doesn’t feel like a workout, but it’s better than sitting at home and it doesn’t hurt my knee at all. I haven’t tried to up the intensity using it since that’s not really supposed to be my focus.
After the Nu Step, I headed to the pool. I put on a floatation belt and did 25 minutes of bicycling in the deep water. I didn’t have any pain and it felt good.
I still don’t feel like I had a great workout, but I took a long nap while the kids were sleeping this afternoon. So, I must of done something right.
Next up: PT in the AM.