, the doctor told me I was doing fine, but I dont feel fine. Glad for this website.
When doctors tell us that I think they are looking at certain physical aspects, which are fine, but they miss the whole picture.
I was so shocked by my recovery. Many of us are unprepared for this recovery because they don’t tell us. I’ve had acquaintances who had a knee replacement but the discussion about recovery never came up. They just said they were happy with their results and wish they’d done it sooner.
I had a partial. My surgeon’s office made it sound like no big deal. I googled it and it sounded like no big deal.
Oh my, what a wake up call, the day after I got home from the hospital.
I thought my recovery was slow, but I’d had unrealistic expectations, like many of us. Others in my 55+ community thought I was recovering slow, but either they all had fabulous recoveries, or forgot the details. They made me feel that I was not up to par, which caused me a lot of stress.
I stopped getting together with my friends. I stopped going to get togethers at our community center. I couldn’t stand what I thought they were thinking of me. I was embarrassed to still be using my cane.
I found Bonesmart after my first month. I started doing what Bonesmart said because it made more sense to me. I lost faith in my surgeon because he told me to do things Bonesmart said not to.
Of course, everyone I came in contact with told me how important the exercises were, which created even more of a gap, because I took on board the advice that it wasn’t exercise that brought my ROM back, it was time.
The whole first year of recovery was so hard for me, emotionally.
All this to tell you, you are not alone in your anxiety. We’ve all been there, to some extent, at some point. That’s what's so great about Bonesmart. Those of us who join enjoy a special camaraderie that helps us through this recovery. Maybe we each have different fears, or different conflicts, or varied versions of the Bonesmart approach that we follow, but in the end we all get there, one way or another, and we support each other. Because that’s what Bonesmarties do!
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