Here comes a life adventure
Sep. 7th, 2023 05:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resonantAround Christmastime I get to have my right hip replaced.
I'm actually kind of thrilled about this. For literally years I've been slowly working on a lot of pain in my groin muscle. I thought it was tendinitis, and I was using massage and physical therapy and a hot tub and a lot of NSAIDs on the pain. Some movements were unlocking while others became inaccessible.
My own fault for not accessing actual medicine as soon as I should have, but my fellow Americans will understand why I didn't. (The physical therapist my doctor had sent me to had been treating six of us at the same time. "Here's a stretchy band. Follow this photocopied exercise sheet while I work with the person behind the next curtain.")
But now I've had an xray and I have surgery scheduled, and if all goes well then next year walking and yoga and swimming will come back into my life.
I work from home and have never met most of my coworkers; they know me from a headshot and a name, which happens to be one of the classic millennial names. I just put a note in one of my Teams chats: "In case youre confused because most people with this name are young ... I'm not."
If you have tips to share, bring 'em on!
I'm actually kind of thrilled about this. For literally years I've been slowly working on a lot of pain in my groin muscle. I thought it was tendinitis, and I was using massage and physical therapy and a hot tub and a lot of NSAIDs on the pain. Some movements were unlocking while others became inaccessible.
My own fault for not accessing actual medicine as soon as I should have, but my fellow Americans will understand why I didn't. (The physical therapist my doctor had sent me to had been treating six of us at the same time. "Here's a stretchy band. Follow this photocopied exercise sheet while I work with the person behind the next curtain.")
But now I've had an xray and I have surgery scheduled, and if all goes well then next year walking and yoga and swimming will come back into my life.
I work from home and have never met most of my coworkers; they know me from a headshot and a name, which happens to be one of the classic millennial names. I just put a note in one of my Teams chats: "In case youre confused because most people with this name are young ... I'm not."
If you have tips to share, bring 'em on!
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Date: 9/10/23 10:07 pm (UTC)Hee! That's a good point. Here, at least, after a ceasarian you can't drive for 4 weeks or lift anything heavy for 6.
I just assumed your be off your feet for a hip replacement for much longer. So a week is great.
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Date: 9/10/23 10:25 pm (UTC)IT'S THE ABDOMINAL HERNIA RISK! Gotta let the belly wall heal. The orthopods mostly split the muscle fibers rather than cut them, and also your leg can't have a hernia... usually.
[ retreats into surgeon cave ]
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Date: 9/10/23 10:40 pm (UTC)Huh. That's cool to know!