Update ... 13 & 1/2 months ... a bit of shaky news.
I ran into a glitch with my hip ... I think it's minor but I'm going to see my surgeon tomorrow to have it checked out ...
Let's see ... I visited my sister exactly three weeks ago ... to pick her up from inpatient rehab where she stayed two weeks after bilateral hip replacement. Well ... on Wednesday October 2, it must have been, the day I picked her up, I felt this sudden weakness in my leg ... on the left operated side ... just above the knee ... Now, I've felt all kinds of aches and pains and soreness since the surgery ... but this ... this was different ... it felt for a second like my leg would collapse And OMG, I bit my tongue and didn't want to say anything about this while my sister was nearby. Didn't want to scare her about the surgery she just went through.
The weakness would feel like instability ... like the muscles weren't going to hold me up ... and then in a second that feeling was gone ... well after helped my sister settle in and I returned home, I remembered some stretching exercises that my PT would have me do ... kinda stretching the quads ... though she didn't call it a quad stretch ... anyway, something about that stretched help ... But that little weird feeling of instability would occasionally raise its head.
Well ... last week ... I went out for a jog ... very relaxed ... not a hard job at all, since I'm still getting in shape ... and and I felt it again, this moment of instability in the area just above my knee. It's s like a muscle or contracts and freezes just above the knee ... (I stopped running ... and just walked and ... then ran 20 minutes later ... and felt fine ... )
I was about to pick up the phone to talk to my PT (I haven't been to her in two months) when I thought. You know what?: I want to rule out any device problems. I want to make sure the device hasn't moved or something else ...
So the surgeon's chief nurse scheduled an early appointment for me. I'm going to see him tomorrow. I'm sure he'll take X-Rays ... I'm now convinced it's a soft tissue issue ... not sure why it is appearing now ... I didn't suddenly increase my exercise (at least that's my thinking). But I wanted to be thorough, so I'm seeing my surgeon first.
I'l report on the findings, of course, when I return from that appointment. I'm pretty balanced as I prepare to go in ... I was more afraid a few weeks back ... but really took me a second to go through the arc of patient acceptance ... from denial ... through ignore ... through "I must not be stretching right" to ... "let me get this checked out."