I've been trying to keep up with my knee exercises post knee replacement, but a painful catching in one knee had me back to the doctor last week. Turns out I've formed some scar tissue on the back of one kneecap (something he's seen happen less than 10 times in all the years he's been doing knee replacements - I guess I'm special!) so I'm scheduled to go back in to get the scar tissue removed.

He says it should only keep me away from my horseback riding for a couple of weeks, but darn it! I've been working so hard to even GET to this point! And it's finally summer!

But I'm trying to be optimistic - that in the long haul this still has me better off than I was before.

And by the way, have you ever tried to do a set of knee exercises (leg lifts and such) with cats crawling all over you? Let me tell you, it really adds to the challenge! (Then there's the experience of hanging your straightened leg over an empty space - meant to make sure you maintain full extension - but it still hurts to do - and suddenly a cat decides that's just a SPIFFY spot to hop up onto! Oh my - gotta love 'em!)