{"id":3024,"date":"2011-11-17T23:54:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T23:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2025-09-28T22:13:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:13:47","slug":"tim-knee-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3024","title":{"rendered":"Tim knee update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six weeks post-surgery today, and saw Dr. Weinstein. Tim no longer needs to use crutches, but will continue wearing a brace (a smaller one) that allows him to flex, but keeps his knee properly aligned &#8211; no twisting.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Tim very relieved and happy to be off the crutches. We went to the gym afterwards, and he walked on the treadmill for 16 minutes at 2 miles an hour. Then lifted weights for half an hour. He did very well, was able to easily bench press two reps at 155 lbs, as part of a 38 rep benching workout. Did some other stuff, all carefully designed to avoid any pressure on the knee, beyond walking.<\/p>\n<p>Tim weighed 186 lbs. before his injury; tonight he weighed 184, so very pleased about that.<\/p>\n<p>He starts physical therapy in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, a good day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six weeks post-surgery today, and saw Dr. Weinstein. Tim no longer needs to use crutches, but will continue wearing a brace (a smaller one) that allows him to flex, but keeps his knee properly aligned &#8211; no twisting.&#0160; Tim very relieved and happy to be off the crutches. We went to the gym afterwards, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8671,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions\/8671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}