Upstairs & Downstairs 8-11-2014

I have been taking the steps one step at a time when I first came home from the hospital. What that means is having both feet on the same step at the same time.  The PT at the hospital helped me learn this by saying good leg up, as in good going to heaven, and bad leg down, as in bad go to hell.  I actually caught myself saying that so I would remember which foot to start with when I approached the steps.  Sounds so simple to walk up or down stairs but with a bad knee or in my case a very recent new knee, it's very hard to do.  Last week I started going up the stairs (the downstairs ones that only have 3) one foot per step.  It was definitely a little harder but I was working at it.  Then I decided a day or two later to start doing the other set of stairs (there are 9 of them) by taking one foot per step.  This was even harder cause I had farther to go.  I could feel my knee stretch more but it was doable and was going to take some practice.  

So today I decided I was going to try going down and work on that as well.  Haha, and I thought going up was hard.  OMG the down is way harder.  I did start with the set of 3 and then the set of 9. I can't really explain it, but it's hard.  The steps are all around going to be alot of work and are going to take lots of practice.