Okay UPDATE time, I went in to see the surgeon on Wednesday, he and his nurse looked at my incision and declared it infection free. Red yes but likely the irritation from the bandages and I will say it's been soooo itchy!!!! They took out 43 of my staple and left 5 behind for another week because those spots needed more time to close. I also have steri-strip closures all the way down as well now. The discharge is still happening since I stopped with the blood thinner but way thicker now. This is super gross (at least to me lol) but he said it was actually fat seeping through from the incision. The blood spots also there. Keeping a very close eye on it all. Bonus is that they gave me the go ahead to shower daily instead of every other day and NO saran wrap! Yay!!
Still on the walker at home and the few times I have been out, I have used the crutches. I am finding the walker is causing pain in my hands though.
Sleep has been awful still, the tossing and turning all night. Some nights I go to bed and it takes me the betterpart of 2 hours to fall asleep.
Other than all that, i am getting mobility back slowly but surely, working on my exercises and finding them a little easier each time. Also I am only taking pain killers once or twice in the day and before bed instead of 2 tramidols every four hours as I had been doing before. My Physio did stress though, that if I needed it, I should take it because being in pain and unable to move much will only impede my recovery.
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