So after five or six months of Physical Therapy, (four of those months post surgery) Mark has been released. They feel that they have done all they can for him. They've educated him on the exercises he should do, but it's still a long road back. A return to soccer is atleast 8 months down the road. But in order to go back to soccer at all, he has to work, work, work at it.
He gets easly discouraged, today at the gym he was upset to find that with the affected leg he could not lift thirty pounds (a fraction of what he used to be able to). So because the weights frustrated him, he stepped over to the treadmill to run, but his knee hurt too much so he ended up stoping.
I hate to be critical but I think Mark chose the surgery because he thought it would be a quick fix. And to his credit, the doctor made it all sound so simple. But the road back to "normalcy" continues...
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