Day 5 - morning
I'm a bit surprised how well I am sleeping. I slept the full four hours after each wake-up for my pills last night. I was mistakenly following what they did in hospital and waking for/taking my "as needed" painkiller every two hours. Then yesterday, my husband noticed that bottle was getting a little low. So we decided if I can sleep through that dose, I can skip it. We have sorted out my pills to be due at 10pm, 2am and 6am and by cutting back water a little bit in the evening I can last that long for the washroom also. Because of the log leg, I am needing some help getting in and out of bed still and really hoping to get more independent on that score soon. I am rarely aware of pain when sleeping now.
Having said that, yesterday afternoon I was having a little nap in bed and about an hour in woke with a very loud yell when I felt like I had just been kicked by an angry donkey in the upper/backside of the hip. Holy Hannah, that hurt and could be felt for a few hours afterwards. I'm assuming it was some kind of muscle spasm.
I tried walking in the house a little more yesterday and did 'OK' with it but my quads were even more stiff and sore at bedtime so maybe I did just a wee bit too much?
Log leg, burning pain and tight sore muscles are my biggest issues. While I was initially finding it hard to tell if my old pain is gone, I think I may be more aware of this pain being quite different now. If my buttock and quads could settle down a bit I wouldn't be in too bad shape.