The little things

First, I remembered to take Tylenol today and I felt better this evening. I was even able to do more of my hardest exercise - stepping up a stair bad leg first!

I nipped my finger on the trash bin at work today and have a little cut. I tell you sometimes it's the little things that bother you the most. Here I had total hip replacement and my little finger is bothering me more LOL! Well enough about my finger.

One other thing I have noticed is my wrist hurts more from time to time. I'm sure it's all the pushing/lifting my body weight. I need to hurry up and get more strength in my legs or I'm gonna need a wrist brace.

How am I progressing? Here are a few things: I'm using a cane and making steps around the house without the cane. I can now go up and down the stairs forward and not sideways I am able to lay on my surgery side while sleeping (pillows between knees/legs) for short periods of time. I can stand up non assisted from my bed - no hand support needed. I can walk a block and back without stopping. And most importantly, I can do all these things without being in pain or totally tired out. In addition to working four hours a day, I do 20 reps of my exercises at least twice a day!

I start outpatient physical therapy tomorrow and I'm looking forward to see what I'll be doing next and getting a second opinion on my progress so far. I think I'm doing well, but I definitely don't want to overdue anything and hinder my recovery in the long run.

Thanks for listening. I'm calling it a night - after my exercises of course :-)

Cyber Marzz - 2 Week Post-op

Cyber Marzz - that's what my 10yr old nephew calls me - LOL

I had my two week check up today and I received a good report. My incision looks good and is healing well. I just have one small area that feels firm and I can use a warm pack and massage the area to loosen up the hard blood underneath. A few sootchers (sp?) made there way to the surface and they pulled them with tweezers and cut them. If I see this in the future I'm told anyone can cut then for me. It's better to cut them than let them continue to push out apparently. This all may be more than you wanted to know, but I promised to write about this journey to help someone else. I will continue to bleed a little this week and should dry out by the weekend. I'm not at a point where I can start letting my would air out.

Physical therapy is still going well and I've been using a cane for two days now. The pain is decreasing also. I made it 9 hours today without taking a pain pill. As soon as my bleeding slows down I can start therapy in the swimming pool - walking around :-)  Oh my, I can't believe I almost forgot - I don't have to wear the compression stockings anymore!!! Yay me!

Most asked question: when are you going back to work?? Well I first need to get off pain meds and then we will see.

Ok I had a pretty full day today, so I'm off to relax a bit and hopefully have a great nights sleep without the continuous bathroom runs LOL!