One month of hospitalization is finally at an end.
My rehab is on track and even a little ahead of schedule. I
have regained about 40-50% of strength in my bad leg, have a range of motion
(bending) of 30° to 115°…of course there is pain and discomfort but it has
lessened over time and as my leg gets stronger the pain subsides bit by bit.
I am able to climb stairs, remain in a seated position for
an hour or so before the swelling gets bad, walk with one crutch (hoping to
change to a walking stick) whilst putting 60% of my body weight on my bad leg
and am able to do some basic exercises to help strengthen the muscles (and
hopefully regain some semblance of muscle mass…..leg is well skinny!!).
I am getting dis-charged this Saturday and will be starting
rehab at a clinic near my home from next week. I still don’t know how many
times a week I will be doing rehab, that is up to the rehab doctor, but I hope it will be 3 to 4 times a week. The sooner my
knee repairs, the sooner I can start sports rehab which will help prepare my
leg, and body, for my return to karate.
I will resume teaching from May this year, it will be a
purely verbal and upper body explanation/teaching role, but my personal
training will have to wait until I get the ok from my rehab doctor. Unlike my
past injuries, where I went back to training while still injured, I will
definitely wait for my doctor’s ok because I NEVER want to experience an injury
like this EVER again!
In my overall hospital stay I lost an initial 15kg (first two weeks) from the
sever allergy to medication and over the past two weeks have gained 7kg (it
probably would have been more, but there was/is a sever lack of meat/protein
foods in Japanese hospital meals.). The initial 15kgs was probably 10kg worth
of muscle mass which I am working on getting back. (The tummy didn’t shrink as
much as I would like but it shrank so there’s a win!)
The next chapter will be about rehabilitation and teaching.
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