A love/hate relationship with gravity

Hola mi amigos!

Ok no more Spanish. 

I feel like I've had a lot of improvement at physical therapy today, they added more exercises again. I haven't even talked about my exercises yet. Ok I've been 5 times and they've added exercises each time except once. I call that improvement. 

Session 1: exercise 1: dog leash around foot and use arm to pull knee to bend until point of pain. Exercise 2: contract quad muscle and push heel down. Quad controls the patella. 

Session 2: same as before plus exercise 3: stretchy band around foot and flex ankle to strengthen calf. Ex 4: hamstring stretch (lie down and straight leg pull leg towards self. Aka Barbie dolls). Ex 5: straight leg lifts: lie down and straight leg lift about a foot. Ex 6: hamstring curls: stand and bend knee to point of pain. Ex 7: forgot what it's called. Lie down straight leg out to side and back. 

Session 3: same

Session 4: all that plus added bike. (Can only go around half way so far) and step ups to see if I can put pressure on lefty going up steps and back down and etc. at this session was encouraged to constantly (especially when not at sessions to bend when I walk and go up stairs). So if you see me and I'm straight-legging, scold me. 

Session 5 (today): ALLLLLL that plus Barbie dolls on my sides, cables during standing sideways Barbie dolls, and the head therapist did my massage today and torture (flexing). He got my knee at a comfortable 90 degree bend hanging off the side of the therapy table, then he slowly applied pressure to get it to bend further. At this point, I was quite uncomfortable and doing my grunty/heavy breathing style screams and gripping the table for dear life. Yes, it hurt. But it is necessary if I don't want my knee to permanently be not able to go further than 90*. 

So here's what the title of today's blog means. My hate of gravity has nothing to do with what the scale tells me. At least today it doesn't. The love of gravity is what's in the picture. I can now relax and allow gravity to bend my knee to 90*. The hate of gravity is when I'm doing the hamstring curls. You may think it's funny, but if you've ever had to bend a not fully functional joint against gravity, it's not cool. Even with an ice pack. It's not cool. And more hate of gravity when I get out of the pool and my knee pines for the zero gravity in the water.