Hi everyone!! just got home from 10 days in the hospital/10 days in rehab today. I'm doing okay except for a nasty post-surgical complication, a very painful and weak right leg. The leg buckled on me several times in the hopsital so that I had to wear an immobilization brace for a week after at rehab -- it's a bit stronger now but I have to use a walker and it hurts a lot at night. Boachie thinks he bruised a muscle during the anterior incision ....he allso thinks it will heal entirely but it will take a bit of time and probably lots of PT.
I got an unbelievable correction, however: from 70 deg. down to 14 degrees!!!! I am so freaking straight. However my belly is very swollen; I look pregnant so I can't enjoy my new figure yet. I have a great appetite and am eating like a pig.
This is one tough surgery. Thank God for oxycontin, though I doubt there's enough ocycontin in the world for the tightness and pulling of a newly fused back. It feels like every muslce in my back is trying to get back to its old position!! -- but if it weren't for my leg I'd be doing great. I have stamina and energy and can put up with the back pain pretty well. I just can't do much walking yet. It's frustrating and a bit scary.
I'l have more tales to tell when I can sit longer...welcome back to everyohe else who went around the same time I did...Nadia,etc..
I got an unbelievable correction, however: from 70 deg. down to 14 degrees!!!! I am so freaking straight. However my belly is very swollen; I look pregnant so I can't enjoy my new figure yet. I have a great appetite and am eating like a pig.
This is one tough surgery. Thank God for oxycontin, though I doubt there's enough ocycontin in the world for the tightness and pulling of a newly fused back. It feels like every muslce in my back is trying to get back to its old position!! -- but if it weren't for my leg I'd be doing great. I have stamina and energy and can put up with the back pain pretty well. I just can't do much walking yet. It's frustrating and a bit scary.
I'l have more tales to tell when I can sit longer...welcome back to everyohe else who went around the same time I did...Nadia,etc..
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