More Paul's knee replacement recovery

 We went up to Park City on the 15/16th for Paul's two-week check up.  It was actually almost 3 weeks.  He got his staples out by an assistant and then she put lots of steri-strips on to last until his 6-week check.  Then the doctor came in and checked it out and pronounced it good.  We had a good trip up and stayed the night in Heber to be there for the 9 am appointment.  We didn't stop enough along the way to walk around and did no icing and Paul paid for it that night with a very painful time with muscle spasms in his knee.  It was SO painful for him.  We learned our lesson, and on the way home we stopped lots and we made sure he had ice on and he also took a pain pill before we left.  We had much better results.  We stopped in for breakfast at the amazing hospital cafe as we were leaving the clinic.  We had a great custom made omelets and other yummy things.  

Some of the other stops were at The Creamery in Beaver and then in Cedar City to eat dinner with Bean.  Before dinner we went to SUU and walked around a couple of statue gardens and then stopped by to visit Juge and Lance and meet their new kitten, Pippin.  He's adorable and we had a fun visit and then had dinner with Bean at Costa Vida.  Ellie was there working an waited on us!  

He has been going to physical therapy 2 times a week and is making good progress there.  It's been more painful and is taking longer to be able to be up and around than he thought it would be, but I think we are starting to turn the corner now.  

6/16/25 - Well, here's the finished, after 6-week check up scar.  He's done until a next year check up.  He has two more PT appointments, and then he's done.  Last time he got 127 on his extension and 120 is what they were shooting for!  It's amazing that such a giant cut it pretty much healed.  Hiking up to Timpanogas Cave was the real test...and he did it with no pain in the knee!  Yippee!! Surgery date was 4/28/25.