skigirl
Former BoneSmart staff member
- Joined
- May 5, 2009
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- Age
- 80
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN
- Gender
- Female
- Country
United States
This weekend, the nurse told me that I was doing "too much". too much is easy to find, because I ended up in level 9 pain. But, how do we know what is not too much?
Everyone says to walk as much as we want---but, what do you do when you are a block from home and you start to l
limp? How can 5 min. on the bike be fine and 15 min be too much?
My pt says to just exercise in pt--but, that is impossible. When you get home, do you weed your yard for 10 min or 30? Do you do laundry or wear dirth clothing? Do you clean your house? If my knee gets stiff, then I ride my bike to loosen it up---but, It seems silly to ride for 5 min and then get off. Do I ride for 15 and see if there is pain? And, isn't this a time consuming way to live our lives.
I can see that my surgeon has a disconnect with reality. When I asked about gold he told me two weeks and I could chip and putt then at 3 weeks, I could start to play. The reality is that it is even hard to walk over to the putting green across the uneven ground to get there.
He told me I could return to work in 3 weeks---reality, the nurse tells me that I can't stand for more than 30 min. then sit
, then stand---and that I am supposed to ice the leg 4 times a day. This is not compatablile with working in an artist's studio.
He told me not to take the Percoset past two weeks--unless it was at night. His own nurse tells me to take the Percoset until the pain is completely under control. and what does that mean? Until every ache and pain is gone?
right now my pain is a 4, but I am not going to take Percoset and get all groggy again. I took 4 Aleve which should do the job eventually.
So, what to do? I am going to work in my studio--will try to ice once or twice---will sit down when I can---if I get really big pain again, I guess I will have to keep on trying until I can do it without pain. There is no book or list which tells us what we can do---each person is different---but, how can we know?
Everyone says to walk as much as we want---but, what do you do when you are a block from home and you start to l
limp? How can 5 min. on the bike be fine and 15 min be too much?
My pt says to just exercise in pt--but, that is impossible. When you get home, do you weed your yard for 10 min or 30? Do you do laundry or wear dirth clothing? Do you clean your house? If my knee gets stiff, then I ride my bike to loosen it up---but, It seems silly to ride for 5 min and then get off. Do I ride for 15 and see if there is pain? And, isn't this a time consuming way to live our lives.
I can see that my surgeon has a disconnect with reality. When I asked about gold he told me two weeks and I could chip and putt then at 3 weeks, I could start to play. The reality is that it is even hard to walk over to the putting green across the uneven ground to get there.
He told me I could return to work in 3 weeks---reality, the nurse tells me that I can't stand for more than 30 min. then sit
, then stand---and that I am supposed to ice the leg 4 times a day. This is not compatablile with working in an artist's studio.
He told me not to take the Percoset past two weeks--unless it was at night. His own nurse tells me to take the Percoset until the pain is completely under control. and what does that mean? Until every ache and pain is gone?
right now my pain is a 4, but I am not going to take Percoset and get all groggy again. I took 4 Aleve which should do the job eventually.
So, what to do? I am going to work in my studio--will try to ice once or twice---will sit down when I can---if I get really big pain again, I guess I will have to keep on trying until I can do it without pain. There is no book or list which tells us what we can do---each person is different---but, how can we know?