My amazing mother

I tried to get video of her lifting her leg off of the machine that exercises it and turning around to eat her lunch. The nurse was in the way so here's right after she turned around. The nurses are amazed at how well she moves!

Of course I shouldn't be amazed. This is my mom we're talking about here. She had her knee replaced yesterday. She said her doctor thought her knee would hurt more today than yesterday. Nope. She is walking all over the floor. She says it feels better already than it did before the surgery!!

Now I'm remembering when her father, my Grandpa Bay had surgery later in life (of course mom has outlived both of her parents by years now). They stripped his varicose veins is what I remember. The doctor said he needed to stay in the hospital a couple more days. He got up and did one legged deep knee bends. His doctor said; "Okay you can go home, if you don't do any more of those for a few weeks"!

Her physical therapist wants to take her around and show her off to all of his other patients who don't move like she does (probably all decades younger than her 82 years). Grandpa refuses to leave her side. He is sleeping on the couch in her room until she goes home. They are a very cute couple and I'm a better person for having visited them today!