BeesKnee,
Your wife should have voiced her opposition before the surgery, just saying
. My wife has been egging me on for years to have this done but for some reason I needed and xray saying that my bones are degrading because of the fact it had developed to "bone on bone" in a matter of 14 months.
We don't always listen to our spouses but "I get it".
You aren't even 4 weeks out yet so everything isn't even healed. As someone who is frequent member of the ODIC club and a Founding Member of the "Bonehead" club along with
@Ghostpipe , I can safely say you will be able to go on that hunting trip in October.
Early on it's grinding and arduous PT but it gets better and when you have your final session you will know you are ready to tackle it on your own.
The advice here isn't for everyone, some of us are too thick headed to listen anyway, I don't know anyone like that of course
.
I am of the belief that you recover how you want to recover. There are two types of pain and this surgery sure confuses you because there are some really weird pains that come with this.
Once I figured out which pains were expected, which ones were not, I could file them in "good" and "bad" categories:
1) Good pain to me is when you exercise and get sore, usually because you pushed yourself. There is a lot of that in this recovery.
2) Bad pain in my book is when you know something isn't right.
The former I can push through (although not advised by
@BoneSmart ), the latter I try to be smart enough to take it easy (no comments from the peanut gallery!).
Our approach to this is unique and I find
@BoneSmart to be a good place to have conversations and get ideas even if one doesn't buy into the same approach.
Chin up all - it gets better!