April 15, 2014 Happy Knee Re-Birth-Day to me!!

Greetings readers! It has been a full year since my first partial knee MakoPlasty replacement. What a wonderful experience this has turned out to be. I feel better than I have in many years, and now that the second knee has been repaired, my activity level is increasing in such a way that my weight has finally begun to drop off. 

At this point, the little scars on my shin and one of the ones on my thigh have disappeared. The main scar is much diminished, but who cares?! I am happy to show them off because they mean I can walk, run, jump. Although I don't do much to the latter two..by choice. I want this knee to last the rest of my life, and considering the longevity in my family, that could be another 37 years! (I'm 63, you do the math.) 

My right knee, which is only 4 months old, is coming along much more quickly than the left one did. I have to remind myself that it has only been FOUR months! 

I am not sure why the right knee seems to be healing so much more quickly. Here are my guesses:
1. It wasn't so as bad to start with - 80% collapse as opposed to bone-on-bone.
2. The left knee is strong and supports me fully.
3. The alignment in better, because it had not gotten as bad.
4. The right was medial, and the left was lateral.

I discovered a few days ago that I can carefully, (on a padded surface), settle myself onto hands and knees and do "cat/dog" Yoga poses. Lovely!! I have really missed my regular yoga practice. I never really stopped doing Yoga, but found the inability to get on my knees quite frustrating.