I am nearly 9 weeks post ops, and have not had the smooth and steady ride that I expected, and am so grateful that I found this forum. Now I realise that I am no different from anyone else, not the Superwoman that I thought I was!
I came out of hospital on day 6, walking steadily with no aids at all, and with flexion achieved with the benefit of of epidural top ups of 130/120. Ha! I thought, after 6 weeks I will be well on the way to normal life. A week of sleepless nights on, I seemed to be going backwards, but persevered with walking circuits around the garden, leg lifts, and trying to push my legs back to my former flexion. Then I started working on trips up and down the stairs, normally. Doing calf lifts, and using the exercise bike. Ended up stiffer than ever and ROM getting worse, sleeping even worse. Then I found BoneSmart and came back down to earth. Stopped expecting too much of myself, cut out the painful exercise and relaxing into healing. Now I understand that recovery is a slow process and can’t be speeded up.
Doing fine now, accepting the tiny improvements and measuring successes achieved by weeks rather than days. Things are starting to look up.
I came out of hospital on day 6, walking steadily with no aids at all, and with flexion achieved with the benefit of of epidural top ups of 130/120. Ha! I thought, after 6 weeks I will be well on the way to normal life. A week of sleepless nights on, I seemed to be going backwards, but persevered with walking circuits around the garden, leg lifts, and trying to push my legs back to my former flexion. Then I started working on trips up and down the stairs, normally. Doing calf lifts, and using the exercise bike. Ended up stiffer than ever and ROM getting worse, sleeping even worse. Then I found BoneSmart and came back down to earth. Stopped expecting too much of myself, cut out the painful exercise and relaxing into healing. Now I understand that recovery is a slow process and can’t be speeded up.
Doing fine now, accepting the tiny improvements and measuring successes achieved by weeks rather than days. Things are starting to look up.
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