3 week video

I'm feeling pretty good... still have pain in the hip. From time to time there are sharp, stabbing pains in the skin, muscles and even what feels like deep in the bone. I think these have something to do with the healing process; I just keep imagining that what I'm feeling are nerves and things sort of stitching themselves back together. And, I'm sore at the end of the day, especially if I've walked or been more active than usual. Doing normal stuff like errands seems to tire me out pretty quickly.



I have been discharged by the home health nurse and have "graduated" from physical therapy! The home health nurse says my incision looks great and my scar should be minimal. (To me it looks horrible, but I don't have a lot of experience with surgical scars--thank goodness.) My PT Tom says there is nothing left to teach me, that I just need to keep doing my exercises until the restrictions have been lifted and I can start doing outpatient therapy. Also he okayed me to walk with a cane, check out the video!

Saturday Morning at the Watson Rehab Center

Breakfast was divine... raspberry cream-cheese filled french toast! I coudn't ask for better care, or better accomodations.

Yesterday the home health nurse came by to check on me. She had to ask me a lot of strange questions (like if I was a coal-miner), and she wanted to see all my medicines along with my explanation of what I was taking them for. She thinks I'm having a reaction to the adhesives--I have a few blisters on my leg and a sore where I had a band-aid on my hand.

Today the physical therapist is coming. I'm looking forward to getting started. I've been doing some exercises on my own, twice a day.

This virtual hip resurfacing is kind of interesting. It shows, in cartoon form, all of the steps that had to be taken in my surgery. Even though it's a cartoon, it's not for the faint-hearted! I'm glad I didn't do it before the surgery. After I did it, I realized why I'm so sore!!