Torture and More Torture
Torture: Physical Therapy. I have been to three physical therapy appointments so far (I expect to have about 12 all together). The first one was awesome… I was walking much better afterwards and felt better too. The second one had me walking better, but was a bit harder on my knee. Today’s appointment… well, it started off with a very stiff knee, which my therapist could see the second he watched me walk by him. I had about 10 minutes of one of the warmest heating pads I’ve ever had… and I loved every second of it. He massages my knee cap and then has me do some flexing and stretching of the muscles. Today he moved my leg to the left and to the right, stretching out the muscles on the sides of my knee. But the real torture was when he had me bend my knee as far as I could while I was lying on my back. He gave me a strap (tied around my ankle) to pull my knee up every minute or so. That was painful… stretching my knee like that. But, I did get it to bend almost like my right knee.
More Torture…
What probably made my knee stiff was all the baking I did yesterday. I am having a great time baking Christmas cookies, but all the standing does wear me out. A few days ago I made gingersnap cookies; over the last day or so I made Danish butter cookies. I loved the way the gingersnaps came out. I was a bit unhappy with the way the butter cookies were coming out, though. I couldn’t get the square size the way I wanted to have them. So I came up the brillant idea of using a cookie cutter. (Like no one else has ever used one, right?) So now I have dozens and dozens of beautiful, delicious butter cookies too.
I found some other reciepes I want to get to this weekend. Part of the baking is for Christmas presents; the other part is to stock up for our annual Holiday Halftime party. Plus, I just like baking. And I have my eye on some candies I want to get done too.