It's been nearly a month since I have made a blog post. On July 25th, we said goodbye to our sweet old puppy. She was 14 years and 9 months old. I have had her since she was 16 weeks old. She passed away at home surrounded by our love. Gina had a wonderful long, adventure-filled life, so that brings us comfort she had the best world. Still there is a looming sadness without her present. Today is the first day of figuring out our new life and routine. Shortly after she passed, we decided to pack up our little camper and run away for a while. We've had some very hard last few months and it was a welcomed distraction to work on a project (aka packing). I haven't done any rehab in 23 days, but I will resume tomorrow and it will be my main focus now. Life comes at you in chapters.
While on our escape, I did to a lot of hiking and biking and also tried to catch up on sleep. I am not sleeping very well just yet, but have had a few 10 hour nights. I also started to not use my Ace bandage wrap for a few of my adventures. It all started with a ride where I forgot to switch out my "nice and clean" bandage wrap for my "dusty sweaty" one. I didn't want to get it all sweaty so I took it off and decided to ride with a naked knee for a while. It felt weird but more doable. I was starting to get a major tan line from that wrap. I'm sure I'll use it again. Tomorrow marks 1.5 years since ACL surgery and over 7 months into the new rehab. A few of my adventure photos. The goal was to stay above 8,000 feet altitude due to the hot temperatures. These are from several different places in NV and UT. Feels good to have been active so many days, but still quite evident I need more strength and stamina. I want to hike the Dolomites one day, do multi day bike packing trips - that is not possible yet! Must keep going.
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AuthorA 45 year old active female who tore her ACL in January 2017 (at the age of 40). Reconstructive surgery in February 2017 with bone-patellar tendon-bone autograft. Archives
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