Six Weeks

Physical "day off" today. I'm sore from Monday, and therapy yesterday, and swimming yesterday.  I'm finding myself in a weird position.  Being so much better in most ways, the remaining "not that much better" makes me think I'm never going to finish getting better, that I will never get the rest of the flexibility back, etc.  Make sense?  Even a little? But yesterday I had him show me where 65 degrees, my starting point for therapy, was.  Six weeks ago, that was the best I could do.  It felt then like 112 feels now - but I got beyond it.  And I will get beyond this.  It's just 21 more to match my other knee.  I keep wondering what it will be like in a year, when this tightness will be (hopefully) a dim memory.  Will I be plotting the demise of knee #2 by then?  I will have been to Spain and back again by then (finances willing, of course).  One of the best things to come out of this is to find out that fixing my knee also fixed my ankle.  Remember those days when I had to ice my knee and my ankle because of pain and swelling?  Since surgery, I have had no pain or swelling in the ankle at all!