WEEK TWO of my Recovery

Sorry for the sporadic posts, but I don't have a laptop and sitting in a chair for long lengths of time is too painful. 

So as of this Tuesday, it's a little over a week and going into week 2 of recovery. I still am not walking, well if walking like John Cleese counts I guess I am. Still can't put my weight on one leg, and until then I won't be able to walk-just crutches.  I still can't drive and can't go anywhere, so I'm pretty much held hostage inside my house for a couple more weeks.

It's been a real eye-opening experience to be totally reliant on another person and not myself. I've been pretty much sitting on my couch for the last 2 weeks healing, but I'm not sure how much more I can take of not getting around. Be prepared to have no freedom for a few weeks!!

I need my brain back for school on Monday, so I'm trying to not take any more pain killers (Tramacet which is an opiate and tylenol mixed) The pain killers knock me on my ass and totally unmotivate me and turn me into a vegetable state, so I need to get off those asap.

I thought I would give thanks first, for what has to be the toughest week and a half I've experienced.

Thanks to:

#1 - MY MOM!!!!!!

She has been the BEST support and is god-given, because without her I have no idea how I could have looked after myself! She shopped for me, cleaned my house and made my sorry ass comfortable while I convalesced.

#2 - My doctor, Dr. Stone for being one of the best surgeons in town and making teeny weeny incisions that after healing will be minimal. AND for doing one helluva hamstring graft! (and cleaning up a little bit of patella and meniscus fraying too).

#3 - Morphine and painkillers! Which incidentally I am weaning myself of now. Couldn't have slept without them, and sleep is SO important for healing.

#4. My EX who has looked after my 2 dogs Kodi and Keisha. Kodi recently has been quite sick so I'm glad I didn't have to deal with that.

Some reflections and advice:

Get a good physiotherapist. Don't think you can do it on your own, because unless you've been through it, you won't do the exercises as hard and as good as possible. Without doing the exercises you won't be able to walk as soon and won't heal as fast.

For the first week, rent a walker from a medical company. Trust me, using crutches right after your operation when you need to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night is next to impossible and unsafe.

When you get bunged up (and trust me you will unless you have exquisite plumbing ) Senoket is the best. Start taking it right when you get home. I didn't go for 4 days!!! NOT FUN.

Take at least 3 weeks off work, school or obligations. I have to start 3 new classes on Monday and it's gonna suck. I can barely write right now..hope I'm better in a few days.

So that's it for now. I'm just hoping that this pitiful TV watching couched human being will be a new refreshed one in a month..tops! We shall see.