JoeGee
junior member
- Joined
- Jan 22, 2020
- Messages
- 25
- Age
- 64
- Country
- United States
- Gender
- Male
Just to update, I'm feeling quite a bit better. It's currently Monday night, surgery was a week ago Thursday, so ~11 days have gone by. I was pretty surprised by how hurting I was the first week, I had somehow translated the "easier" recovery from an anterior procudeure with an "easy" recovery and that was a mistake that's on me. I guess I wanted to believe it would be easy. It wasn't exactly easy. It's also not over, so things could go in any direction still.
But the last time I checked in, 4 days ago, I was still pretty hurting and there really hadn't been any change since I came home from the hospital a week earlier. In the past 4 days there has been some change. Yesterday I went outside for a walk. I didn't go very far, maybe 200 yards total, but I did it with no problem except some soreness. And despite the fact that it was chilly and gray man was it nice to get out of the house. Today I went again and went twice as far and again no problems. Tomorrow I intend to go again.
I'm the cook around here normally, and I cooked dinner tonight. Nothing fancy but it was good to finally eat some decent food (sorry, Honey, I know you try!) (God help me if she sees this btw). But more than that it was good to do something normal. I needed something from the fridge and I went and got it and it wasn't until I was walking back that I realized I wasn't using my cane. It was only like 15 feet each way, but it didn't hurt anything and it was nice to have it far enough back in my mind that I wasn't even thinking about it.
As I said to my wife after my walk yesterday, my leg still hurts, but my hip feels greasy and slippery and nice - way, way, better than before. So I'm feeling much more positive. I know there's a long way to go but I'm an optimist, and as long as there's progress I'm fine. I think I've pretty much shaken off the depression I was feeling. The dog still has cancer of course (although he too seems to be feeling much better now that he's getting medicated) and the weather's still crappy, and my leg still hurts, but we're making some headway and that's a huge difference.
I wish I had found this site earlier in my journey, and I'm sure I would have been better prepared if I had so I'm going to do what I can to spread the word about it. Thanks everybody for the encouragement and information and I'll keep checking in from time to time as events warrant. Hopefully with good news but of course we'll see. I go back to the doctor the day after tomorrow, if he has anything interesting to say I'll be sure to share it.
But the last time I checked in, 4 days ago, I was still pretty hurting and there really hadn't been any change since I came home from the hospital a week earlier. In the past 4 days there has been some change. Yesterday I went outside for a walk. I didn't go very far, maybe 200 yards total, but I did it with no problem except some soreness. And despite the fact that it was chilly and gray man was it nice to get out of the house. Today I went again and went twice as far and again no problems. Tomorrow I intend to go again.
I'm the cook around here normally, and I cooked dinner tonight. Nothing fancy but it was good to finally eat some decent food (sorry, Honey, I know you try!) (God help me if she sees this btw). But more than that it was good to do something normal. I needed something from the fridge and I went and got it and it wasn't until I was walking back that I realized I wasn't using my cane. It was only like 15 feet each way, but it didn't hurt anything and it was nice to have it far enough back in my mind that I wasn't even thinking about it.
As I said to my wife after my walk yesterday, my leg still hurts, but my hip feels greasy and slippery and nice - way, way, better than before. So I'm feeling much more positive. I know there's a long way to go but I'm an optimist, and as long as there's progress I'm fine. I think I've pretty much shaken off the depression I was feeling. The dog still has cancer of course (although he too seems to be feeling much better now that he's getting medicated) and the weather's still crappy, and my leg still hurts, but we're making some headway and that's a huge difference.
I wish I had found this site earlier in my journey, and I'm sure I would have been better prepared if I had so I'm going to do what I can to spread the word about it. Thanks everybody for the encouragement and information and I'll keep checking in from time to time as events warrant. Hopefully with good news but of course we'll see. I go back to the doctor the day after tomorrow, if he has anything interesting to say I'll be sure to share it.