{"id":4141,"date":"2016-11-11T04:36:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T09:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/?p=4141"},"modified":"2017-02-23T13:03:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:03:55","slug":"focus-on-what-you-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/focus-on-what-you-can-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus On What You CAN Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some days don&#8217;t quite work out as you anticipate!<\/p>\n<p>Recently\u00a0I went\u00a0to the doctor\u00a0for a check-up. During the consultation, she\u00a0asked me if I had\u00a0any new concerns and I commented that left knee had been bothering me. Because it was a joint problem, I had to get x-rays taken.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4151 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/knee-1406964_640.jpg?resize=200%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"knee-1406964_640\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/knee-1406964_640.jpg?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/knee-1406964_640.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>When she reviewed the x-rays I learned that I have bifurcated patellas, dozens of bone spurs, likely tears in my meniscus, a probable\u00a0tear in my ACL, and my left knee is essential working bone-on-bone. Jokingly I commented that &#8220;those things might explain my knee pain and instability, eh?&#8221;. Her professional assessment was summed up when she said &#8220;you&#8217;re broken&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We talked about my options, and frankly none of them sounded great. I&#8217;m not a good candidate for a knee replacement. The ACL repair isn&#8217;t a great option. And a general clean-out and shaving of my meniscus has less than a 50% chance of success. She also confirmed that I&#8217;m likely going to have to have total knee replacements within 5 years, but things aren&#8217;t quite bad enough now to warrant that.<\/p>\n<p>Not exactly the news I was hoping to get.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4147 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Knee-Brace.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"knee-brace\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Knee-Brace.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Knee-Brace.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Knee-Brace.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>When I walked out of the office&#8230;well, to be more accurate, I limped out of the office&#8230;I was sporting a <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2eQSLq5\">new knee brace<\/a> that included jointed hardware. It&#8217;s something that I&#8217;m going to have to wear most of the time when I&#8217;m awake, with the one respite being that I don&#8217;t have to wear it when I sleep. At least not yet!<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few days I began to adjust to wearing the brace. Doing any sort of walking for exercise felt\u00a0strange &amp; painful; I constantly worried about the knee giving way. Running is\u00a0out of the question.<\/p>\n<p>As the days went on I started to get down about all the things I couldn&#8217;t do. I&#8217;m supposed to limit how much I carry Hectic Grandson, and stairs are entirely out.\u00a0If I sat for long periods of time I have to stand up, wait a minute, and then start walking. If I start walking right away I&#8217;m both unstable and look ridiculous. Getting in and out of the car is bothersome. And getting up and down from the floor to play with Hectic Grandson is a chore. The brace is hot and causes me to sweat. The velcro needs adjusting several times a day, and it irritates the back of my knee. Lastly, lots of my jeans won&#8217;t fit over the brace, so I have a bunch of clothes that I can&#8217;t wear now.<\/p>\n<p>So I moped around for a couple days, feeling very sorry for myself. I subtly let everybody know how miserable I was. And my misery leeched into all my interactions with people. I was a\u00a0<em>social cancer<\/em> metastasizing into everybody&#8217;s lives with negative vibes.<\/p>\n<p>I was arguably no fun to be around. Heck, I didn&#8217;t like being around myself.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4148\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/idea-1707751_640.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"idea-1707751_640\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/idea-1707751_640.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/idea-1707751_640.png?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/idea-1707751_640.png?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/idea-1707751_640.png?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Then something clicked. For once, it wasn&#8217;t me knee (that&#8217;s funny, so feel free to smile or laugh). But something got into my head that while I\u00a0<em>can&#8217;t<\/em> do a lot of things, there&#8217;s still a lot of things I\u00a0<em>can<\/em> do.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m able to lift weights.\u00a0I can still ride my stationary bike. I can workout on the elliptical. I can walk on the treadmill at slow speeds. Kettlebells and free weights are still within my regimen. While I have to be careful about what exercises I choose, I&#8217;m not all that restricted.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m able to walk around, and I can go up and down stairs&#8230;I just need to be aware\u00a0of what I&#8217;m doing. I don&#8217;t have any restrictions on most of my daily activities. I can continue to use my standing desk. Sitting is still available when I get tired or don&#8217;t feel like standing any more.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have any limitations\u00a0on what I can lift, as long as I&#8217;m smart about it. I can still play with Hectic Grandson all I want. I really don&#8217;t have to do much to change my life.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I&#8217;m a bit slower on the stairs, and getting down onto the floor and back up again is challenging, but they&#8217;re something I can still do. Frankly, the list goes on and on of <strong>all the things I can do<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m focusing on. Sure, I&#8217;m trying to do some things to strengthen my muscles and improve the stability of my knee. I&#8217;m forced to be more conscious about what I&#8217;m doing, and I&#8217;ve had to learn the art of saying &#8220;can you help me&#8221; every once in a while&#8230;but I should&#8217;ve been doing that anyway.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s so much that I can do! The trick is reminding myself of that every day. I don&#8217;t want to be wallowing in my negative feelings. It&#8217;s no use feeling sorry for myself&#8230;that doesn&#8217;t make anything better. Honestly, it just drains me. So I&#8217;m making a concerted, daily effort to focus on all the things that I&#8217;m\u00a0<em>enabled to do<\/em> rather than focusing on the things I\u00a0<em>can&#8217;t do<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my plan&#8230;and I&#8217;m sticking to it!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days don&#8217;t quite work out as you anticipate! Recently\u00a0I went\u00a0to the doctor\u00a0for a check-up. During the consultation, she\u00a0asked me if I had\u00a0any new concerns and I commented that left knee had been bothering me. Because it was a joint problem, I had to get x-rays taken. 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