Happy to report another A-HA moment!

Lately I've been been feeling a bit disillusioned about my lack of muscle strength / progress rebuilding, even after doing more than 2 months of 1:1 Pilates sessions. (Despite my OS saying last Thursday to be patient as it takes 12-18 months to fully recover soft tissue damage) So two things to report:
Well, lo and behold, 2 days after that OS appointment last week, I was walking upstairs and suddenly just felt....stronger.

I realized I was leaning a bit to the left to compensate for the weak right, and I just stood up straighter. Felt really good, both with my body awareness of strange compensating postures and also with being able to rectify them.
So, this Monday at my pilates class, I told my instructor I felt stronger. We then did a few of the moves (requiring balancing on my op leg) that I found very difficult to do before and - ta da! - suddenly I could actually DO them correctly! Yippee! Now, it's not perfect by any means, but much much much better than before. She said I've clearly (finally!) turned a corner. Happy dance!

Of course there's still work to do and I'm continuing for another 4 weeks. But today all is well again in Hiptopia.
Lesson learned: don't give up faith, folks. Recovery doesn't understand arbitrary dates and calendars - but your body will tell you when it's time for another leap forward.
