Nine days! We are just "over the top" to see that Dodie is pedaling her bike nine days after surgery.  I was out in the workshop rebuilding a lawn tractor, when she called me from the door. "Hey, come see this!".

I had an idea of what it could be, but we are still days before our own hoped for point of spinning the bike. But yes, she had snuck up onto her bike and done ten rotations. Just experimentally she had brought the left knee up to the top of the stroke, and then thought "Oh, what the heck". Over she went, and then again, and again.

It seems in one sense kind of silly to make so much of someone sitting on a trainer and rotating the pedals a few times. Certainly, on a long distance cycling blog site like this, it's so much less than so what.  On the other hand, for Dodie, the heavy narcotic pain killing meds have not even been fully tapered out yet.  Three days ago, I was still lifting her leg onto the bed. Then suddenly she was "jumping" in on her own. And now this. We are so pleased!

Have a look.