Re: ...and I'm back ...progress report..7 days!

[Guest guest]

> Hi everyone,

>

> Thank you to everyone for the posts and e mails before I went in for

> my operation in Nottingham Nuffield Hospital England last week.

> After 7 days I am home and all goes well!

Congratulations! Downright miraculous, isn't it?

> I am now semi mobile, have done about 200m today on my

> two crutches, which I shall have for company for the next 6 weeks.

> My surgeon is conservative about recovery because of the amount of

> shaping he had to do and the risk of femoral fracture. My pain post

> operatively has been very limited fortunately and today I am just

> down to Paracetemol, 4 times each day. The only dreadful thing was

> the post operative roll to prevent pressure sores, which they only

> got to do on me twice....it's a great incentive to stand up!

>

> So I don't think I will be like some of you walking miles in the

> first month,

You may surprise yourself. Progress seems to come quite rapidly after

the two week mark. I think that I probably managed about 100m on

day 7 (the day after I got home, and insisted on making it to the

end of the block and back), so you're doing twice as well as I was

at this point. Just stay within your comfort zone while you heal

up.

Steve (bilat C+ 4/20/04, Amstutz)