Day 10 — Recovery Day 9 | Sunday, August 9, 2026

“Hey, everybody. Party people. iKnee people. All of us people. Just want to let you know it’s Sunday night, August 9th, nine days after surgery. I’m doing great.

I’m excited to tell you there’s a couple of great things I’ve noticed as I progress in my rehab. The swelling has gone down quite substantially in my quadriceps, in the thigh muscle.

I also noticed something interesting last night when I woke up. Between my leg traumas over the past six months, a broken leg, and now this — I’ve learned that when you’re healing and you swing your legs over the side of the bed, you sit there a second to get your bearings while the blood rushes down into your feet and legs. When you actually stand up, you can feel all that blood rush back into the tissue that had surgery — it fills up like a water balloon, and you can feel the pressure of the tissue refilling with blood. It’s very painful.

So over the course of the past week, whenever I got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, I’d have to wait a minute or two for that to happen, ride out the pain, and then make my way to the restroom.

Last night, though, was awesome. When I went through that whole routine, instead of the blood rushing into the whole thigh like it used to — which was extremely painful — it only rushed into a little quarter-size spot right above my kneecap. I thought that was pretty cool.

Other than that, the rest of the day was great. I did my exercises — the heel slides, the walking, putting more pressure on the heel-toe work, and I can definitely feel the calf engage as I roll from the ball of my foot into my toes.

The cane is working well. I was able to walk without a cane, with a cane, without the walker, and with the walker — but I’ll keep using the walker for a bit longer, just to make sure the mechanics develop properly for this new gait, this new stride, that I haven’t been able to have in probably a decade because of the knee pain.

Still no pain in the joint. All the pain is in the surrounding tissue, and things are looking good. I’m excited to have Clint come tomorrow, take some new measurements, and go from there. Have a good rest of your evening. Talk to you guys soon, bye-bye.”

– Eric Hansen (iKnee Patient One)

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