@Mojo333 Well, the one thing you probably wouldn't fully approve of is that I'm posting this from my office... I told my partner that I could cover a deposition by phone today, since he's unavailable. At least it's by phone and I don't have to drive the two hours up to Fresno. It should also be fairly short, I'm thinking 1.5 - 2 hours (although opposing counsel is rather long winded).
I'm treating this as a dry run to see how I do in the office while nobody's here. So far, I think I may need to order one of those desktop riser thingies so I can stand and work if I so desire, but at least my office chair is relatively comfortable and has a little lip on the side so it holds ice packs against my hip well. I think I'll start doing work this week, but primarily from home (even though it's much less efficient to work on my tiny laptop than it is with my two giant monitors and ergonomic keyboard at the office).
@Layla - Considering I'm picking up a borderline unreasonably expensive recliner in a couple days (well, my friends are picking it up, I'm not doing it personally of course), I don't ask what she spends at these stores!
@Alitm - Not much entertaining material to post unfortunately. Last night we revisited the, uh, mutual spousal expression of frustration with recovery, let's call it, so I was in a bit of a bad mood last night. We mostly resolved it, though there's still the bit of an argument hangover this morning.
One semi-funny thing is that, when I turned the light on early this morning for a bathroom trip, there was a small house spider on the wall near my head. I instinctively smashed it with my hand, which woke up my four year old - she came in and asked what the noise was, but I didn't want to mention spiders to a four year old in the middle of the night so I told her I knocked over my water bottle... I don't think she believed me, but she went back to bed, haha.
As for the hip itself, more incremental improvement. The incision itself is a little uncomfortable now, but no big deal. I feel like I can lift the knee toward my body a tiny bit further, to the point where I don't have to use my hand to get the leg into bed (though it takes some conscious effort), and I don't need to be as cautious getting the leg out of bed. The muscle toward the top of my incision is still inflamed (I think its the gluteus medius) and feels a bit like there's a hot dog under the skin, haha. With the curve of my incision, it kind of starts at an angle at the top and behind the incision, and then runs parallel to the bottom half of the incision, so I think this is a muscle he had to cut instead of pushing it aside, so it's understandable. I also have some lingering groin pain that started with a sneeze of all things, but that only acts up if I try to lift my knee too far (which I try not to do).