Hello and Welcome to BoneSmart, thanks for joining us! It looks like you received some good advice already so I will share a post from another teacher, that while several years old, made an impression upon me that I haven’t forgotten. It has to do with the mental aspect of returning to work too early, not just the physical.
Here we go -
Jan 9, 2018 from pkuznuts…
Yesterday was my first day back at work (4 wks Post-op)—here’s what it was like:
Well, fortunately for me, I found parking close to the building I am teaching in, so that was a relief before and afterwards. But within 10 minutes of standing up in front of college students explaining the course, reviewing protocol,demonstrating the way the online platform portion of the course works, calling roll and adding students waiting to take the class and so on, I felt increasingly weak and exceptionally vulnerable! I thought to myself “maybe this wasn’t such a great idea after all!” Ironically, my hip felt okay; it was my MIND that felt like it was struggling in 2nd gear. The first hour exhausted me...yet I had 4 more to go!
My overall impressions from my first day include huge internal applause for how fabulous my hip felt considering I was on my feet or walking for MOST of that time! There was never anything that resembled
pain; however, I
did sense stiffness as the day wore on. The 10 minute drive home from work felt like an hour, and I wanted to hurry home and get my little dogs greeted, piddled, and fed so that I could put my jammies on and ice/elevate my leg and take a half of a pain pill with some Tylenol. Let me just say that ICE is the savior of my life when it comes to hip replacement!
As I lounged in my warm bed this morning, putting off getting the day started, I wondered what my hip would feel like when I stood up. Did yesterday set me back? Am I going to feel even more stiffnees today? Will I actually feel
pain as a payback for going to work so soon? Guess what? My hip felt great! It wasn’t any worse for the wear! My overall impression is that my mind and my energy levels are not nearly as
recovered as my hip is! I’ve got three more days til my weekend when I can lounge around and rest and recuperate. Hopefully, my mind holds up til then ;)
This is from the thread of (pkuznets)
https://bonesmart.org/forum/threads/patrikya’s-thr-recovery-journey.44858/