Feeling well—happy, relieved, peaceful that everything went as planned / hoped for and I am bouncing back so quickly. My two minor issues now are continued tiredness and hunger. I suspect both relate to the incredible amounts of energy it takes to heal your body. Yesterday, even after eating my tummy would rumble with hunger. And although I slept fairly well, I took a morning and an afternoon nap.
Did quite a bit of walking on my cane yesterday. Our neighbors in the two houses directly across the street are two retired couples who like to sit on the front porch in the afternoon. I call them my cheering section. When I am out walking, they cheer me on and tell me how well I am doing. I love it! They were all surprised to see me out on my cane at 2 weeks! I also got some stair practice in on my deck stairs.
I did drive my car yesterday even though my appointment isn’t until today and I haven’t been officially released to drive. I had no troubles at all since it was my left hip this time. Way easier getting back to driving with the left hip operated on.
I texted my boss yesterday and told her I plan to come back half days the week of May 8. After one week, I plan to get back to my regular schedule. Going back half days isn’t as scary. Four hours fly by and that gives me plenty of time to exercise, elevate, ice and take care of myself. I am getting back to work a week earlier than last time. In some ways, this recovery was slightly more painful with that awful knee pain, but somehow I seem to be healing faster. I think I have rested more this time because of that pain!
Doctors appointment at 11:30 today. I anticipate this will be uneventful. Just removing staples and adding steri strips. I will also return the 2-wheeled walker from the surgery center. I am still using a walker when I get fatigued and achy, but I have a four-wheeled one my husband picked up at a thrift store for me.
So, the things that are left to do include getting up and down my attic steps to get to my comfortable bed in my attic bedroom—hope to have that done this weekend—and switching over to ibuprofen for pain. And lengthening my sleeping time!
Next week, I plan to work on getting back to old routines so work won’t be such a shock to my system. I was going to ask hubby to stop cooking my breakfast today so that I can get back into my old routine of oatmeal, berries, and walnuts, but he already had the hashbrowns, eggs, and salsa going when I got out of bed this morning. Couldn’t shoot him or his delicious breakfast down.
One of the things I need to work on is setting down my phone! My Apple alerts say my phone use is up by like 50 percent! It has been nice to have this forum (and Instagram) for some human connection without the exhausting effort of having to have people over IRL. My friends know from my last surgery that I just like to hole up in my little world while I am recovering, so they text and ask if I need anything but don’t feel insulted I am not having anyone over.
Anyway . . . probably don’t need to post daily updates now that I am doing well and sticking my toe back out into the “real” world. But I appreciate all the support, encouragement, and interaction here. What a great group! Other users may have already seen this, but there is a place to make a donation to help support this site. I hope you will consider it if you can! It has been so valuable to me having all these bone health experts chime in on my posts. I never once had to call a nurse on call during my recovery.
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