I'm wondering how the "August Ladies" are doing? I haven't seen too many posts and I hope you all are doing well. I am off pain meds (doesn't mean I don't feel it though!) and back to work 4 hours a day as a reading teacher. It's the little moves that wipe me out...up and down out of my chair to the waste basket, to get kids...I really have to remember to "brace my stomach muscles" as my PT says every time I move! I'm very tired at the end of the day. After the first day back, it was my stomach that was hurting! Got a cleaning service and still order my groceries on-line to be delivered.
All in all, I think I'm doing well. My correction was good...though I do wish there had been a little bit better effect cosmetically. Doc said he could have gone up one more vertebrae, but it would have involved collapsing my other lung, etc. So I'm pretty happy. Right rib hump is much less, gained back about an inch so I don't look so scrunched and I'm a little straighter...my left hip still sticks out, but it's hard to compare to my right, as that's where my incision is and I'm not sure if that's still swollen. And most importantly, the lower back pain is gone! Even the post-surgical discomfort is nothing like the lower back and hip pain I used to wake up with each morning!
Love to hear from you all!
All in all, I think I'm doing well. My correction was good...though I do wish there had been a little bit better effect cosmetically. Doc said he could have gone up one more vertebrae, but it would have involved collapsing my other lung, etc. So I'm pretty happy. Right rib hump is much less, gained back about an inch so I don't look so scrunched and I'm a little straighter...my left hip still sticks out, but it's hard to compare to my right, as that's where my incision is and I'm not sure if that's still swollen. And most importantly, the lower back pain is gone! Even the post-surgical discomfort is nothing like the lower back and hip pain I used to wake up with each morning!
Love to hear from you all!
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