Day 28: Odd new pain

Today was the first day I've had any actual pain in the hip. I woke up with soreness in the front of the hip--the groin area--and also on my butt, directly behind that groin area (if you shot an arrow through the painful part in the front of my hip, if would come out through the painful part of the back of my hip. Please don't do that, though). That's exactly where the implant is, and where the arthritis pain used to be. I expect to get better every day, and this felt like a setback. If I start having pain in the hip, I'm going to start worrying that I'm rejecting the implant, and that's a hasty conclusion based only on my well-documented metal sensitivity and my extreme pessimism. So I took two Darvocet and went on with my day.

I thought it would be wise to rest after the long walk on Sunday, so I didn't walk yesterday. But today I had pain rather than painlessness, so my rest theory was called into question. I decided exercise was the answer, and took another long walk today. Fairly uneventful, except for the part where the old man driving toward me in a convertible Mercedes swerved as if to intentionally hit me. I had to hop with my crutches off to the shoulder to get out of his path, and he swerved away at the last minute. I stared at him as he passed (white hair, fluffy white mustache), and he stared right back without smiling or waving. What kind of a neighbor is that?