Rebounding from that upsetting post-op appointment, that is. After some more reading on support groups with folks who have been through the same sort of hip surgery the psoas and hup flexor pain I'm experiencing is par for the course 2-3 months post op. I will be 2 months post on on Tuesday, so perhaps this flavour of pain is less a result of ( Read more... )

On today's schedule for this full-time patient: post op follow appt with Orthopedic Surgeon at OHSU. Xray and super fashionable paper shorts aside, actually spoke directly with the surgeon for the third time in my life (one pre-op appt, quick hello before surgery, then today. Otherwise all appointments were with her PA). I've been walking ( Read more... )

You know how every time anyone has surgery everyone is all "make sure you rest! Don't push yourself too hard!" as though there's a nice convenient monitor somewhere that will start to redline when you start to go "too far." Sadly, there's not. Definitely pushed myself a little too hard last week so this weekend was 100% rest and recovery. The ( Read more... )

Definitely overdid it yesterday with all the driving to airport, stores, PT, and optometrist. Also at PT did some very light ab work on the ball (super modifified forearm plank on my knees) which did make one of the incision sites very unhappy. Then late yesterday I lifted my shirt and noticed that the superglue had started to come off the that ( Read more... )

Or in the proper past tense: today, I drove! Drove mom to the airport before the sun was even up, then hit the Target by the mall for a couple returns of mom's and some Halloween scoping of my own (I like to see if it's worth getting up early November 1 for post-Halloween markdowns. Some years it is, some years the offerings are just meh.) Then ( Read more... )

You'd think i'd have nothing better to do than write daily posts, what with being a full-time patient, only having one or two appointments per day and the luxury of sleeping for 10-12 hrs every night. You'd think. And yet...time really does pass quickly. I had plans of making soooo many pysanky during my recovery period. I finished one after ( Read more... )

A phrase that stabs me in the feels every time I hear it since a taking a particularly wrenching call at work from a mom whose daughter with a seizure disorder was having a long, intractable seizure. She was one of those rare perfect callers who, from sheer volume of calls to 911 for the same problem, knew every question that was going to be asked ( Read more... )

In that I am sleeping far, far more than I am awake. The balance is starting to shift the last couple days, I am staying awake for significant chunks of time (7 hours so far today!) and taking fewer naps, tho I am still very tired whenever awake ( Read more... )

http://photos including abdominal woundsPre-op prep! This situation is more dreary and less poss than OHSU ambulatory surgery was. No lofty and delightful hospital socks, paper booties instead. No paper insulated gown with personal climate controlled hot air piped in, just the standard easily-laundered one size-fits-all gown with shoulder snaps ( Read more... )

Today I was presented with a new and very Not Fun game: Which kind of pain is this? Because right now I have two primary kinds of pain: 1) hip related pain which means STOP RIGHT NOW. Whatever I am doing that is causing the pain: stop doing it. Even at PT the only exception to this rule is targeted massage to break up scar tissue which hurts ( Read more... )