Update, day 18 -
Hello everyone, hope you’re all doing ok
Well, it has been quite a boring week, which is good isn’t it?! I’m still mostly resting and my pain is under good control. I have reduced my pain meds more than I expected at this stage, to 4 doses of Paracetamol/Tylenol per day plus 1x10mg dose of Oramorph at bedtime.
I’m doing the bed-based exercises the PT told me to do, and managing them all, plus doing laps of my small living room on crutches a couple of times a day - that’s not far at all - maybe only 10 or 20 m/yards - but I’ve been housebound and on a walker for the past seven months, and not able to do even that, so I’m happy. I am mostly on my own, so I’m pootling about looking after myself too.
I’m sleeping ok - no worse than before surgery now - which means quite restlessly, up 2-4 times for the bathroom, and almost always awake for 1-2 hours halfway through the night. But I’m sleeping 7-10 hours most nights, which I know is unusual and lucky!
I have had 2 big events in the past 24 hours: one is that I found a bargain secondhand electric recliner (which I could afford!), which friends collected for me last night, and can now sit/recline comfortably somewhere other than bed, for the first time in many months. I can’t tell you how wonderful that is!
The other is that this afternoon I went out with my son for the first time since I came home from hospital two weeks ago. We went for a fairly short walk, and I was mostly on my mobility scooter, but I took my crutches and when we got to a level bit, I walked. I managed 40 or 50 m/yards, which doesn’t sound like much, but it’s the first time I’ve walked outside AT ALL since last September! Then I came home, sat back in my new recliner, iced and took painkillers. I am exhausted and sore, but satisfied.