{"id":253,"date":"2012-02-23T09:51:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T14:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jackdorman.com\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2013-02-02T12:46:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T17:46:42","slug":"7-weeks-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jackdorman.com\/blog\/7-weeks-today\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Weeks Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Feb. 23,\u00a0 marks the end of seven weeks following my knee surgery.\u00a0 Things are still going well.\u00a0 I still have pains and soreness here and there.\u00a0 Inflammation and swelling are still with me somewhat, but all of that is expected.\u00a0 Late yesterday, I took a 7 iron out onto the fairway behind our house and hit one of those soft, &#8216;almost golf balls&#8217; for about half an hour.\u00a0 The ball won&#8217;t go more than 30 or 40 yards, but you still get the feel for hitting a ball.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not like I play a lot of golf, but my brother does and perhaps I&#8217;ll get into it more when I grow up.<\/p>\n<p>The thing of it is is (what movie \/ tv show is that line from?\u00a0 I can&#8217;t remember, but I love it) I haven&#8217;t really walked very far for several years.\u00a0 Something about that bone-on-bone thing in my left knee just wasn&#8217;t much fun after about 10 yards.\u00a0 I know, I&#8217;m a wimp, but, I just couldn&#8217;t do it.\u00a0 So, yesterday was the first time I walked substantially in a long time. (Well, I actually did walk a good bit last Sunday at the Water Station #18 for the Marathon, but I don&#8217;t know how far.)\u00a0 I just kept hitting the ball, walking to it and hitting again.\u00a0 At the bottom of the hill, I would turn around and go back up.\u00a0 Nothing to write home about in terms of golf shots, but, it was good to know my knee didn&#8217;t undo itself in the rotation of the swing.\u00a0 Dr. Mark at <a title=\"Texas Physical Therapy Specialists of Austin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.texpts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TPTS of Austin<\/a> wants me to use my short irons at first so I&#8217;ll graduate to longer later.\u00a0 He doesn&#8217;t know that I have no nuance in my swing &#8230; all or nothing, swing for the fences.\u00a0 Maybe he does know that and knows that a driver would generate enough torque to turn my knee inside out if I haven&#8217;t strengthened all the muscles in the knee area.\u00a0 Thanks, Mark.<\/p>\n<p>So, I was exhausted after my outing, yesterday, but this morning, I&#8217;m ready to go again about six. I walk out onto the greenbelt about 6:30 and this is what I see.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackdorman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Morning-Walk-7-weeks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"254\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.jackdorman.com\/blog\/7-weeks-today\/morning-walk-7-weeks\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.jackdorman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Morning-Walk-7-weeks.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2320,3136\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1329980588&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Morning Walk 7 weeks\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.jackdorman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Morning-Walk-7-weeks-757x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-254\" title=\"Morning Walk 7 weeks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jackdorman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Morning-Walk-7-weeks-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jackdorman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Morning-Walk-7-weeks-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.jackdorman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Morning-Walk-7-weeks-757x1024.jpg 757w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s not the greatest photo, because the contrast between skyline and below is too intense. I used an App on my iPhone which is supposed to take multiple exposures, merge them together and this is the result. You need a tripod to do this well.\u00a0 Or at least, I do.\u00a0 I was into walking more than photoing, so, I take the shot, do the merge and walk on.\u00a0 Oops!\u00a0 Just in front of me, about 150 yards I spot a skunk coming out of the woods crossing the field.\u00a0 Great, just what I need.\u00a0 I bet he&#8217;s the guy who&#8217;s been smelling up the neighborhood some evenings.\u00a0 I give him plenty of clearance, let him get through the fairway and then go on with my walk.\u00a0 I managed to traverse the length of the 18th hole twice, which would be at least half a mile, I think, just to be conservative.\u00a0\u00a0 It is very good to be walking again.<\/p>\n<p>Today is the second day of praying for our cities from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waymakers.org\/seek-god-for-the-city.html\" target=\"_blank\">Seek God for the City<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 We join our voices with many others asking our Great God to break through our pride and complacency.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t know, there&#8217;s an <a title=\"Praying for your City\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jackdorman.com\/blog\/?p=241\" target=\"_blank\">app for your smart phone<\/a> if you want to join in with us.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all for the prayers and support.\u00a0 Walking on to recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Feb. 23,\u00a0 marks the end of seven weeks following my knee surgery.\u00a0 Things are still going well.\u00a0 I still have pains and soreness here and there.\u00a0 Inflammation and swelling are still with me somewhat, but all of that is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jackdorman.com\/blog\/7-weeks-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,22],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knee-surgery","category-me","tag-knee-replacement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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