It's almost been three weeks that I'm back home and generally I've been taking it really easy. I'm lucky to have bosses that allowed me to work from home, which lowers the amount of walking around and varies my sitting positions. With this tempo, I feel that things have been going well...as mentioned previously, the pre-op pain seems to be gone. Yay! Friday, I went for breakfast with my close friend Jean-Michel...it was so nice to spend time with him! He drove me back home, and a few hours later my parents came over with sushi. I was so excited, this would be such a fun day! But after all the fun, I was EXHAUSTED. Like, can barely keep my eyes open exhausted. I couldn't focus, I was unable to work. My head hurt. Today, I asked Oli if we could go do a little Christmas shopping. Nothing too long, just so I could get out of the house and knock some items off the list. I put my brace (which I stopped using when doing short distances) and walked slowly with my two crutches. About an hour later, I was done. Once again, my body was telling me that it couldn't keep up and that we had to go back home. It sucks. So little stamina, even 6 weeks after surgery! But it also fascinates me. I find it amazing to understand that my body is constantly working on repairing my operated hip. That it is using precious calories, all day long, to get me back to my normal self. So today, when I asked it to go into overdrive mode - simply to walk around a little - it was like "Yo. We ain't got the resources for that useless crap" It shows that this will be a long recovery. I'm at 5.5 weeks post surgery and my hip tires so quickly. I can't imagine walking without crutches right now. I'm seeing my other PT tomorrow - Stephane at Kinatex - and I'm guessing he's probably going to have a look at that. Maybe I can soon go off crutches for super short distances. I'm also going to Chicago next week, so I'll have a proper evaluation by Dr. Nho as well Lindsay in PT. I hope it will be ready to survive all the Christmas parties coming up! 🎄
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AuthorMy name is Marie-Christine. I'm 34 years old and live in Montreal, QC, Canada. I have had two failed hip scopes on my right hip to do undiagnosed hip dysplasia. My amazing surgeon, who is in Quebec City, performed periacetabular osteotomy in November 2017. He also did one left hip scope (non dysplastic) in February 2017. Archives
May 2018
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