8 week status update!
Today is officially 8 weeks since my surgery, and I am feeling pretty good!
I returned to work in the 19th (at 6 weeks). I was getting fatigued after about 6 hours. Since then I have been on vacation because I had some vacation time I needed to use or lose. I have had family visiting and we have been pretty busy. It seems to me at about 7.5 weeks, I started to have had a lot less swelling/stiffness (not that I was having a ton) and I feel like I have more energy. It has been like a switch turned on. I was able to walk all over the museum for a few hours, and my hip was not complaining! My knee complained, but not the hip
What I can do now:
-Not taking pain meds very often, certainly not every day, and when I do just Tylenol
- walking a mile regularly, with hills, my knee starts complaining first. Planning to switch to stationary bike for main exercise, so I can get more of a workout without stress on the knee
- generally have more energy
- able to do multiple shopping trips/ activities per day
- the main thing now is not trying to do too much, while the bone is still healing.
I feel like I am ready for more challenging physical activity, but every once in awhile I will trip slightly and catch myself on the operated leg. Ouch! It is a good reminder that I am not physically ready to go full out, and my body s still healing. I know that in a couple months I will be wondering why I was so impatient. What I work on now is staying healthy and making steady progress, not setting myself back. This will pay off in the end when I am hiking and mountain biking next summer!
There is probably more that I can do now that just seems so normal now that I have forgotten about it.
Happy New Year!!!
Australia
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