Back To Work!
Jan. 25th, 2005 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grnvixenOk, so it's only parttime, a couple of mornings a week, but it really feels good to get out of the house and back into some sort of a regular routine. I am now 5.5 weeks post-op with 3.5 weeks to ago until my next Dr's appt. where, hopefully, I will get the go-ahead to finally be full-weight bearing on the new hip. Then a whole new round of rehab/PT/sore muscles will begin but, at least for me, that is the last step to finding out just how much I will get back in my left hip and what will be the new 'normal'.
Recovery from this surgery has been interesting. I did eventrually realize that I had allowed the physical limitations to slowly creep in and change my quality of life. You don't realize it as it is happening until you look back every 6 months or so and go, Oh! You think there is always something temporary about what ever is the current 'problem', and sometimes you find solutions and it keeps you going, until the solutions run out.
What I had not realized was how much dealing with the pain had dragged me down mentally. Being free of the pain I had not even realized I had come to accept as an every day occurance was liberation from a burden I had not known weighed so much. Yeah, there was post-op pain but it was different, and responded quickly to the PT. Some of the mental energy is still slowly coming back but I can already feel a difference, especially on the creative side.
And one of the hardest lessons that I learned through all of this, is to be able to accept, and even ask for, help! It's still a little hard to let myself be pushed around in a wheelchair (that was the deal w/ my Doc for going back to work, letting the Transprot Dept in the hospital take me to my dept), but it is all part of getting my life back. Which is something I feel I have made a lot of progess in these last couple of months.
Recovery from this surgery has been interesting. I did eventrually realize that I had allowed the physical limitations to slowly creep in and change my quality of life. You don't realize it as it is happening until you look back every 6 months or so and go, Oh! You think there is always something temporary about what ever is the current 'problem', and sometimes you find solutions and it keeps you going, until the solutions run out.
What I had not realized was how much dealing with the pain had dragged me down mentally. Being free of the pain I had not even realized I had come to accept as an every day occurance was liberation from a burden I had not known weighed so much. Yeah, there was post-op pain but it was different, and responded quickly to the PT. Some of the mental energy is still slowly coming back but I can already feel a difference, especially on the creative side.
And one of the hardest lessons that I learned through all of this, is to be able to accept, and even ask for, help! It's still a little hard to let myself be pushed around in a wheelchair (that was the deal w/ my Doc for going back to work, letting the Transprot Dept in the hospital take me to my dept), but it is all part of getting my life back. Which is something I feel I have made a lot of progess in these last couple of months.
