Saturday - much improved...

After Friday's unexpected pain, I was very relieved to wake up this morning to minimal discomfort and no additional swelling in my knee.  I forced myself to spend 7 hours in the knee machine today and got up to the magic number of 120!  

I broke down late afternoon and took a Percocet to help get me there, but figured that's what the doc gave me the pills for...  Don't think I'm in any danger of addiction...  In fact, I was a bit disappointed with that morphine last week!  Was looking forward to that great euphoric feeling it's supposed to give you, but I never want to see that stuff again!

And as a plus, I've had some moments without any discomfort when I was up walking around or standing, so that gives me some hope that I've turned a corner.  But I'm still having plenty of that nagging pulling sensation.  I was thinking earlier this week that pain comes in so many different varieties.  There's the sharp abrupt pointed pain like when I stubbed my toes in the bathroom this week.  If I had to give that a color, I'd paint it red.  The pain I feel would be just a dull, ugly brown.  It just wears on you.  You don't realize how much until it stops.  And oh, what a relief when it stops...

Enjoyed more daytime TV today, including two episodes of Property Ladder on The Learning Channel.  The people they featured made some really stupid decisions, but I figured in one case, the producers were salivating to get that woman on the air because she was such an incredible flake.  She wanted to spend $30K on renovations, and had this grand design in mind.  She had the sense to hire a general contractor, but when he told her that the grand design would be 40K, she got upset with him.  He suggested scaling back.  She didn't like that idea.In the end, she spent $72K, and after 4 months, still hadn't sold the house.  But she did make for compelling viewing.

Then Lifetime was having its "Love Gone Wrong" weekend, so I watched a couple of docudramas also about people who made some really bad decisions.   Now I'm sitting here watching the AKC Eukanuba dog show.  They're so beautiful!  Well, most of them.  There are still some funny-looking dogs out there.  

I also enjoy the sidebar videos on the difference dogs can make to a person's life, like a wheelchair-bound man and his Labrador assistance dog.    It showed him opening the front door for the dog to get the morning paper, and the dog looked so thrilled to pick it up off the sidewalk--just wagged his entire back end.  "Look!  I've got the paper!  Yippee!"  I try to bring some of that doggy enthusiasm to the things I do, but I'm not as cute as that Labrador.  

Superbowl tomorrow!