Rampidbyter Rampid byter: A byte of my .Net developing life.

I tell yah this time around with knee surgery my recovery time has been ever increasing. I took almost an entire week off during the week of the surgery from Tuesday until Monday of the following week. I ended up going back to work on Monday with some difficulty and a total lack of mobility in my leg other than to walk stiffly with one crutch. Tuesday served no better as I still ended up bobbling around like a stiff legged gimp, and even have the new office name of Hobbly. However, my knee started to feel like a heat rock after a while, still had a large volume of fluids behind my knee, and I’ve developed a temperature that started at the beginning of the week. It’s a weak temperature but everyone keeps telling me I’m giving off the signs of beginning of infection.

I keep hearing that. My physical therapist scolded me, as I mentioned in my last post, and since then I took two additional days off this week from Wednesday until today being Friday.

Yesterday I had another physical therapy appointment with a new person who put me through another gauntlet of exercises, leg lifts, and leg electrocutions. I still find it so amazing that they literally shock your leg into a muscle spasm as part of therapy. It’s awesome though when you felt the juice running through your leg, and then baam your leg is convulsing like an extreme flex. I can imagine this is the same principal behind those lapband electrode things I saw on the infomercial channel back in the day. I think they’re illegal to sell anymore because of electrocutions that happened when sweat made its way through the poorly crafted child-labor manufactured product. At least I think so, and now that I think about it they had someone on beetle juice who died of one. It was some horror movie if I can remember right, or maybe it was on the comedy channel. Hrm.

Anyway, I’m sitting here in the office with my leg on my guest chair, and I’ve pulled everything closer to me. I’m glad I took one of the nicest cubes in the office. I’m in the 30+ years of working here area where you’ve had to have been here more than 30 years to get a cube. I will probably feel the wrath of the other side of the office whose cubes I could probably fit three into mine. I tell you, when I’m done here, and have to go back downtown I’m going to get claustrophobia from having to sit back in the old cube isle or bullpen as it’s affectionately known.

There has been one advantage at least. I’ve made great headway through the Microsoft Robotics Studio book, at least as much that will be helpful in addition to the available tutorials. I think it’s reached is usefulness to me until I can actually sit in front of the computer for a while. I’ve also managed to make it more than half way through my MCTS Framework 2.0 Web development study guides. I’m going to register for the exams within the next week or so. Stay tuned for more! I know I will!