Week 2 after surgery

More summarizing.

Dr L is pleased with my range of motion, seemed excited even. I noted some tingling which he recognized as a nerve thing, not IT like I thought. I asked about "non-weight bearing" and how to balance that with "toe touch", and he said I could lightly touch, don't worry about it. I noted that for a scientist "zero is zero", and he asked mom if I was that "persnickety" when not injured. Then while asking more more questions about my sis and our similarities and differences worked on some nerve entrapment and more. Ooooh, yeah. Pain. He joked that if there was anything mom wanted to know, now would be a good time to ask -- while under duress of pain. HA!

Forgot to mention, visited Gramma over the past weekend. She beat me on the walker! Held the door open for me, looked after me, a role reversal. Also forgot to mention -- Jess visited Saturday morning for a few hours, sat in mom's newly decorated sun room.

And I was able to ride mom's bike as needed. The first day I rode at 12 mph. That felt slow to me! But the pain the next day indicated I was wrong there. Took a day off, then back to it at 3.5 mph. As I said to TH, I can only get faster from here! I mixed bike and CPM as best I could. Still lots of sitting, and learning as I go. Like how the dining room chairs that I spent too much time in hurt my leg. That the blue recliner was perfect for getting my feet up and pressure of my back. Lots of ice machine, that was vaguely prescribed as "as desired". But mom and dad asked and prompted me to use, otherwise I'd forget or skip.

This week stayed in STL from Monday to Thursday. Sugar was walked by TV and MP and stayed at the Watering Bowl while I was gone. She was excited to go!

Mom and I kept noting odd coincidences. The first was the Bees Knees card I found way back in April while card shopping for her birthday. I bought the card without knowing why I wanted it, aside from the bees, as it was a Thank You card. Other randoms -- we picked up a thank you gift for MP with a raw blue sapphire set in a necklace. Turns out it was her birthday and that was her birthday stone. (Also her nephew Bob lka Murphy was born last weekend!). Many weird coincidences, I'll never remember them all, but it left a feeling of This Was All Meant To Happen.

Back to Illinois Thursday, again stopping often to walk and stretch. Worked on notes for the new business, and with that the driving went FAST.

That weekend K slept over and even with pillows tried to kick me. She like the ice machine and CPM machine to heal her 'boo-boos' on her leg. She liked playing with the crutches when I set them as short as they could go. Both kids were careful around me, and I really enjoyed being able to just sit with them and having nothing else to do and no where else to go. 

Sooooo much happened, yet not much happened. Back to STL on Monday for Dr L and first visit with JB for PT.

Summary -- still no hip pain, all the pain and problem in my poor hands.