It's been ten days since my last post, and in that time things have gotten almost completely back to normal. I can do all kinds of amazing things now, like wear flip-flops and drive and sleep on my stomach. And as I walked around the supermarket the other day it occurred to me that I was not limping. That's huge. I don't need any of my special dressing tools anymore, like the reacher-pincher or the superlong shoe horn, but I am still taking a baby aspirin a day. Just for the record, St. Joseph's chewable baby aspirin is a million times tastier than the Bayer variety (thanks, Richard!).
I have my two month checkup this week, and that in itself is crazy. It's only been two months? I have zero pain in the hip now, and can even get out of my car a little easier since I leared to slide the seat all the way back before getting out. This makes it possible to kind of lean back and swing myself out of the car without being forced to flop the right leg under the steering wheel (thanks, dad!).
I still have a sore back every morning, but it gets better as the day goes on. My only guess is that I'm spending too much time sleeping on my left side, and this results in a strain to my left upper back? It's my best guess. You know when you see time lapse photography of people sleeping and it's nuts how much they move around? I'm not doing any of that moving around, and I think that's the problem. I still have to wake up and consciously move if I want to change positions at night, so I think my brain has decided to stay asleep and leave my body on its left side. I can lie on the operative side now, but it starts to feel sore after about fifteen minutes. I assume that's because the muscles there are still weak and healing.
I'm doing all the things I desperately wanted to be doing by now, like taking care of the kids by myself (including getting them in and out of car seats, which I thought would be especially tricky), driving, carrying laundry baskets up and down stairs, and hanging around outside 7-11 drinking a Slurpee with Thing One. All this is actually happening earlier than expected and I couldn't be more thrilled.
