Not much to report
Jan. 21st, 2015 07:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vicarzIf anyone (including me) ever uses this tag to know what happened:
As of this date, still hitting rehab 2 times a week and every day on my own at home (I do my fucking homework). Home only takes...30 minutes? 45?
I can hit the gym for non-resistance bike riding (but haven't, only do this crap in rehab) and I cheated into a bench workout. I'm actually worried the lifting weights to rack the bar might be a bad idea, but am too ashamed to ask for help - I try to lean on something, balance on the good leg only, and use all upper body to swing weights onto the bar. I'm not there to set records.
I feel mostly fine walking, am told to avoid any pinching sensations, and I do get some - I do not have full flexibility in the joint (hence a lot of the rehab exercises which are really just yoga stretches).
Summary of my state: I forget I'm rehabbing at all while I am sitting for hours working from home or watching tv, but when I get up I am reminded with a short burst of stiffness that goes away as I walk across the apt (without a brace on). I wear the brace to go outside and it feels more like it hinders than helps - I'm not even sure what fall it's supposed to prevent, but I follow orders.
The main pain I have and get is in my quad - not where the surgery was (which is way up on the hip). Where I was numb (most of the upper thigh/quad) now literally hurts on its own or to the touch - very much like a limb that was asleep too long and is waking up. It's not bad and overall I like it as it seems to indicate a full sensory recovery is in the works. The biggest pain I feel is when I move too quickly, getting up and walking without remembering I'm hurt, or stretching, only to have that one string-like sensation in my quad pull taught as if someone stabs me with the reminder that I'm fucked up.
Again, again-again-again, this is far better than anyone seemed to predict, any blog site will tell you about labral tear surgery, and than I expected. This more report than complaint, and while I'm annoyed, I'm still within the window where I might be in pain, on meds, and using crutches while my mom makes me soup.
Oh - my scars are really tiny, pics pending mood, time, and energy.
As of this date, still hitting rehab 2 times a week and every day on my own at home (I do my fucking homework). Home only takes...30 minutes? 45?
I can hit the gym for non-resistance bike riding (but haven't, only do this crap in rehab) and I cheated into a bench workout. I'm actually worried the lifting weights to rack the bar might be a bad idea, but am too ashamed to ask for help - I try to lean on something, balance on the good leg only, and use all upper body to swing weights onto the bar. I'm not there to set records.
I feel mostly fine walking, am told to avoid any pinching sensations, and I do get some - I do not have full flexibility in the joint (hence a lot of the rehab exercises which are really just yoga stretches).
Summary of my state: I forget I'm rehabbing at all while I am sitting for hours working from home or watching tv, but when I get up I am reminded with a short burst of stiffness that goes away as I walk across the apt (without a brace on). I wear the brace to go outside and it feels more like it hinders than helps - I'm not even sure what fall it's supposed to prevent, but I follow orders.
The main pain I have and get is in my quad - not where the surgery was (which is way up on the hip). Where I was numb (most of the upper thigh/quad) now literally hurts on its own or to the touch - very much like a limb that was asleep too long and is waking up. It's not bad and overall I like it as it seems to indicate a full sensory recovery is in the works. The biggest pain I feel is when I move too quickly, getting up and walking without remembering I'm hurt, or stretching, only to have that one string-like sensation in my quad pull taught as if someone stabs me with the reminder that I'm fucked up.
Again, again-again-again, this is far better than anyone seemed to predict, any blog site will tell you about labral tear surgery, and than I expected. This more report than complaint, and while I'm annoyed, I'm still within the window where I might be in pain, on meds, and using crutches while my mom makes me soup.
Oh - my scars are really tiny, pics pending mood, time, and energy.
