So it has been about 8 weeks since my knee surgery. On the 4th week, I started physical therapy. I go once a week, but I have to do excercises every night. (And on the nights I forget or don't have time, I am sorry, dear therapist.)
I don't mind therapy. I go after school on Tuesdays. My therapist is a man and, since I am a girl, I've learned it's best to wear long pants during my sessions. (And even if it's a guy therapist with a guy patient you should probably still wear long pants to ensure maximum coverage.)
My therapist is also funny! So it helps to break some of the awkward tension.
Anyway, the thing that's always awkward is when you're in a big room with other people and you need to do leg raises and high knee bends and everyone has a view of your butt and then your therapist is like, "Let's do those butt squeezes to strengthen your thigh muscles," and you start the butt squeezes but then you realize that your thigh muscles are practically non-existent since you haven't walked on your leg without support for eight weeks so then you go to try and instead of performing a butt squeeze leg lift it just looks like you're having a spasmodic seizure on the exercise table in a room full of other people doing various other squeeze exercises. (That long sentence was used to show how exasperating therapy can seem sometimes.)
So yeah, that's physical therapy for you. (At least my experiences, anyway.)
The comforting part is that everyone is trying to squeeze muscles they haven't used for a while. It may not be a "butt muscle", but it's awkward none the less! I liked your long descriptive sentence!
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