The past week of my recovery has gone very smooth compared to the first week. I started to go a bit stir crazy from being in the house and have so far taken almost any opportunity to get out of the house! Physio has been going well. I'm still on crutches but I'm trying to make a conscious effort to go without when I'm at home. It seems silly, but I have to actually concentrate on walking properly. To walk, I have to stand with even weight in my legs, contract one quad muscle, then take a step with the other. While I am walking, I have to try and keep my legs as straight as possible, which means I walk VERY slowly. Normally I am a very fast walker, so it annoys me that I have to walk so slow!  I am getting closer to getting my range of motion back in my knees. However, they have split personalities right now. My left leg bends really well, but it is very resistant to straightening compared to my right knee. My right leg is the opposite; I almost have it straight, but

Last Thursday (Sept 1st) was the fateful day for my bilateral ACL reconstruction surgery. It's been an interesting week of recovery this far. My surgery went well, but I did have a bit of a long recovery in the hospital.  I spent a long time in recovery because I was apparently very sensitive to anesthetic.  Every time I would fall asleep in the recovery room, my breathing would slow down too much and my oxygen stats would fall and alarms would go off!  Then the nurses would come and wake me up and say, "Jackie, you HAVE to breathe!"  Oops, I guess I forgot.   When I finally got back to my room, my poor husband had been waiting for over two hours for me since they told him I was awake.  I wasn't sent home until the evening because I was quite nauseated, so they gave me Gravol which knocked me out for the afternoon.  When I finally was awake enough, it started getting painful.  They offered me Morphine (they couldn't give it to me earlier because of my breathing