I woke up feeling pretty good today. My knee wasn't bothering me and I had a great sleep (although drug-induced). I did some exercises a few times yesterday and built on that today. My physio also told me to keep working out my whole body where possible just to keep it from being surprised by exercise all at once when I'm more mobile. He told me I can do crunches and leg squats on my good leg as well so I've started doing those.

Julie picked up a stack of movies for me and I have a stack of books that I want to get to. It hasn't been easy reading while taking Percocet as it's hard to focus on things and really makes you sleepy so I've only taken one today and probably won't be taking them anymore. Most of my pain is related to the swelling and it's not unbearable without pain killers. The focus right now is elevating my leg and icing it (so I'm only using the computer briefly and then lying down in between exercising). Thanks to Martin at work who gave a tip to my wife for me to use my crutch between my chair and desk as a bridge to rest my leg on at the computer. Thanks for breaking your leg Martin, that was a helpful insight :-)

There were two other big events today. The first being my nephew Trevor's first birthday. I was able to go around the corner with Julie to see him for a few hours with my leg elevated on their couch. My little niece liked looking at my "owwee" brace but wasn't too concerned about lying on it :-)

The second big event was me having a shower for the first time. Not too bad going 5 days without a shower. I must say it was heaven and felt like I was Survivor Man coming in from the woods after a month away. Have you ever felt like you had to wash yourself twice in the shower? Actually, nevermind that might have been too much info. Anyway, I'm clean!

Sorry, no pics from me today but I'll leave you with this screenshot of my MRI that the doc read to see that my ACL was torn and I wasn't lying.