2 Months!
I have reached two months now since my surgery. That sounds like a longer time than my body feels like it’s been. My hips are both still pretty sore, and it would seem like they would be less so at two months. Then again, my previous surgery had me way worse at two months than I am now. And despite the pain, I am becoming stronger. My leg muscles—and my entire body, really— are re-learning how to be supportive and active.
The biggest thing this week was driving the car all the way to San Francisco and back by myself! I am so glad I can drive myself to PT now. It takes so much pressure off of my parents and my friends, who have had to drive me two and three times per week for two months. Driving definitely hurt, but it was not bad. Since it’s my right leg and not my left that must work the pedals, I’m in luck. And I wasn’t even extra sore after the drive I don’t think.
Another new feat is my recent footwear independence. It still hurts a lot, and I find myself questioning whether I should ask someone else to help me instead, but I now put my own socks and shoes on. I still wear my flip flops every chance I get, don’t get me wrong; however, it is getting cold and rainy and more challenging to make my flip flops look chic with my woolen pants.
My new at-home PT exercises hurt me last week, unfortunately. I was doing three sets of each exercise, which was probably too much. After Greg told me to take a day off (gasp—no!), Brandon told me to just do less sets of each. So now I’ve rested and am back to doing two sets instead of three. We’ll see how that goes. I’m also instructed by Brandon, who’s been deep in my hip joints, to work on smoothing out my tissues myself at home. That is a challenge—to give myself a deep tissue massage in the most painful area of my body. Oh my gosh, it hurts a lot, plus, it’s a workout and my arms get tired. It’s necessary to move the enflamed tissue along, though, and although it hurts a ton, it won’t be detrimental to my joint to work into the pain. I don’t enjoy this aspect of my recovery much, as pain and inflammation run rampant in my hips and I feel as though I’m barely making any progress at all! Yes, I’m getting stronger and moving onto better exercises, but then pain comes along, and it seems like I’m not ready to move forward at all. So I hope I can push through the pain into a breakthrough in the next couple weeks.
The biggest thing this week was driving the car all the way to San Francisco and back by myself! I am so glad I can drive myself to PT now. It takes so much pressure off of my parents and my friends, who have had to drive me two and three times per week for two months. Driving definitely hurt, but it was not bad. Since it’s my right leg and not my left that must work the pedals, I’m in luck. And I wasn’t even extra sore after the drive I don’t think.
Another new feat is my recent footwear independence. It still hurts a lot, and I find myself questioning whether I should ask someone else to help me instead, but I now put my own socks and shoes on. I still wear my flip flops every chance I get, don’t get me wrong; however, it is getting cold and rainy and more challenging to make my flip flops look chic with my woolen pants.
My new at-home PT exercises hurt me last week, unfortunately. I was doing three sets of each exercise, which was probably too much. After Greg told me to take a day off (gasp—no!), Brandon told me to just do less sets of each. So now I’ve rested and am back to doing two sets instead of three. We’ll see how that goes. I’m also instructed by Brandon, who’s been deep in my hip joints, to work on smoothing out my tissues myself at home. That is a challenge—to give myself a deep tissue massage in the most painful area of my body. Oh my gosh, it hurts a lot, plus, it’s a workout and my arms get tired. It’s necessary to move the enflamed tissue along, though, and although it hurts a ton, it won’t be detrimental to my joint to work into the pain. I don’t enjoy this aspect of my recovery much, as pain and inflammation run rampant in my hips and I feel as though I’m barely making any progress at all! Yes, I’m getting stronger and moving onto better exercises, but then pain comes along, and it seems like I’m not ready to move forward at all. So I hope I can push through the pain into a breakthrough in the next couple weeks.
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