I'M OFF CRUTCHES!

officially! :) though my doctor could kind of tell i haven't been wearing my brace or using my crutches all the time.

he said range of motion wise, i'm much further ahead than everyone at six weeks out (like i have my hyper-extension back) though i still have a lot of pain doing different things, and i still have locking of the knee cap which he said is caused by scar tissue that hopefully will eventually go away. i never want to hear "scar tissue" again for the rest of my life. and... as he's already told me many times before, my first doctor totally messed up my fat pad which is unfixable. so i'll be stuck with pain in certain areas for the rest of my life. :( my doctor had a guy on a sports medicine fellowship with him today, so he was telling the guy about my history and stuff and showing him the incisions on my knee & pics of the inside of my knee and telling him all these things that he should NEVER do. good to know my knee is used to show doctors what not to do.

so, i'm off crutches, limping around, and start PT tomorrow. part 2 of rehab begins.