No news is good news, I suppose.
It seems that my knee is doing fine with the exception of some minor tracking issues — it’s almost as if the joint is “looser” than before. I’m doing about 45 minutes hard on the bike every day along with some other free weight leg exercises I picked up from the PT. My PT appointments have gone down to once per week, which is good since it’s getting old doing that.
I think a few more weeks to a month at most and I’ll be confident about starting a return to running program. By that time everyone will have returned for the spring semester and I could try hooking up with my old coach or the athletic trainer about stuff to watch out for as I start running again. Both of them dealt with other athletes with microfracture so they could provide me with guidance as I go. It seems that the PT was/is rushing me back to running so I can be released from them, but I don’t get why they just don’t cut me loose. Rushing this is a really bad idea. My pre-surgery past self would have tried rushing back to running as quickly as possible, but I really don’t want to wind up back at square one and require another surgery right off the bat. I’m sure my coach and the athletic trainer wouldn’t mind talking to me a few minutes per week about how things are going.
I return to the doctor next week so I will see what he says about everything now that I am over four months post-op.
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