MsCat62
junior member
Hey Ya'll,
Well, Jim's continued to make progress since I last posted about him mowing the yard. He's now exclusively using his cane, though he's keeping the crutches handy still just in case. And he's been walking more around our property, now that we've had a slight break in all the rain.
But yesterday at PT when he was doing the lunges (yeah those again, but he's getting better with them), on the last one he suddenly jerked and said he felt an intense "stinging" at the incision site. Now he's felt that before, but never this bad. It was bad enough that the therapist ended his session for the day and got him on a table to ice him (normally we just go home and ice him). By last night he was doing a bit better. And he wondered if the "stinging could have been caused (in part) by some of the Steri Strips that are still hanging on and don't seem to want to let go of him just yet?
Then today he decided to walk down our driveway to get the mail. Now our driveway is about 1/10 of a mile long and half of it is a hill. I can't say how much of a grade it is, but I would call it moderate. If you stand at our house and look down it, you can't see the end of it.
I never thought to ask if walking on a hill like that was ok or not, but tonight he's really complaining about his back. He says his hip isn't bad though thank goodness.
But I guess what I'm wondering is was it alright for him to walk down that drive, or should he have waited longer before trying that (he's at 4 1/2 weeks post-op). I also don't know if this issue with his back is part of the recovery, or more his Degenerative Disc Disease? Or both with the DDD making the recovery back issues possible worse?
I hope this all makes sense. I can't think straight tonight, thanks to really smacking my scalp on the corner of a cabinet door earlier and now having a busting headache......OUCH!
Well, Jim's continued to make progress since I last posted about him mowing the yard. He's now exclusively using his cane, though he's keeping the crutches handy still just in case. And he's been walking more around our property, now that we've had a slight break in all the rain.
But yesterday at PT when he was doing the lunges (yeah those again, but he's getting better with them), on the last one he suddenly jerked and said he felt an intense "stinging" at the incision site. Now he's felt that before, but never this bad. It was bad enough that the therapist ended his session for the day and got him on a table to ice him (normally we just go home and ice him). By last night he was doing a bit better. And he wondered if the "stinging could have been caused (in part) by some of the Steri Strips that are still hanging on and don't seem to want to let go of him just yet?
Then today he decided to walk down our driveway to get the mail. Now our driveway is about 1/10 of a mile long and half of it is a hill. I can't say how much of a grade it is, but I would call it moderate. If you stand at our house and look down it, you can't see the end of it.
I never thought to ask if walking on a hill like that was ok or not, but tonight he's really complaining about his back. He says his hip isn't bad though thank goodness.
But I guess what I'm wondering is was it alright for him to walk down that drive, or should he have waited longer before trying that (he's at 4 1/2 weeks post-op). I also don't know if this issue with his back is part of the recovery, or more his Degenerative Disc Disease? Or both with the DDD making the recovery back issues possible worse?
I hope this all makes sense. I can't think straight tonight, thanks to really smacking my scalp on the corner of a cabinet door earlier and now having a busting headache......OUCH!