PT - physical therapy or physical torture....hmmmm

Yes ... I began physical therapy today... I thought it would just be some exercises to strengthen or redevelop some muscles that have atrophied; hence preparing me for walking in about 3 weeks... Well.... I guess that was happened... and really nothing that I did was painful... what became extremely apparent is ... HOW LITTLE I can do... and after my hour of this... how physically exhausted I was... bend your leg... hmmmm ... how do I do that... lay on your stomach and bend your knee... hmmmm... well.. I can tell you... my face... my upper body... my abs... my gluts... they were all straining... how much of a bend did I do? Hardly anything... and since I could not see... or feel... I had no way of measuring my success... All the exercises I have been doing have helped some... but the reality is my ankle does not move well... my quads... hmmm... virtually non-existant... calf..... not good... The therapist was great... but what I have come to realize is .... the surgery was only the beginning... this is really the long haul.....