NOVEMBER 30, 2010

okay, Now!
finally took the compression stockings off today and it took me 15 minutes to exfoliate and 20 more minutes to pretty much bathe in lotion, and we ain't there yet!  as sadya says,... this will definitely be a WORK in PROGRESS! LOL i added lotion this evening and i am STILL FLAKING! :-) 
i thought that maybe with winter coming i would miss the stockings (warmth), but it ain't happening yet!
 now im trying to get my mom ready for her hip replacement!
i keep telling ma that this will make it so she can lift her right leg, and she just sighs and says that she is tired of it all!  anyway i think she has forgotten what it feels like to not feel that bone on bone pain.  i know for me, i still have trouble believing that that pain isn't coming back to that hip! it is AMAZING!

anyway, with gammies surgery days away, i am answering phone calls from the dmc and warren and blair and susan are doin the grunt work (finally).  anyway, between that and sadya going to school in toronto in january, i've got enough on my plate to where physio is a welome escape! LOL is this a case of identifying with the enemy? LOL anyway, more tomorrow.
i realize that legitimate blogs are a lot longer, but i just wanted to document the process and my memory is VERY VERY GOOD!  it's just VERY VERY SHORT!    i'll probably add and edit later.

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

DAY 16

okay, so, it's been three weeks and 2 days and i feel pretty good.  the TED stockings are driving me crazy.  they come off next tuesday and i CANNOT WAIT!  i can't use lotion during the time i have to wear them, which is a month, they are supposed to be on all the time, (which means you take them off, try to exfoliate your legs) and put the other pair on. ) no lotion, in november.... can you imagine what the skin on my legs looks like?  well don't try, cause it ain't pretty! 

its not snowing outside, but my legs are in the middle of an avalanche! flaky skin everywhere!

physio says i'm doing real well, and am trying to put more and more weight on the leg for longer and longer periods of time...  incision sight itches and i'm keeping polysporin cream on it. 

sadya and i went to the grocery store yesterday and i finally used the in-store cart and got to park in a handicapped spot.  the cart is pretty cool, once you get the hang of it.  i won't cringe anymore at the thought of going to the grocery store anymore.  i only ran over 1 display (while i was getting the hang of the cart) and there was no glass involved...just about 40 magazines! LOL

so today at physio, i'm standing there against the wall doing my torturous exercises, and somebody says,  "JAN?"  so i looked next to me and it was an old baseball buddy of jrs, who i thought was in oshawa but apparently moved back to windsor!  anyway, i asked what he was in for and he said he broke his hip! i said, "how did you do that?" and he said...." changing a light bulb." 
i told him he was going to need a better story than that... was he at least on a ladder?  "Nope" he said,  "i was on a computer chair." 
i told him i couldn't even try to spin that in any direction!  i told him if i were him i'd go with fell down the well while being chased by a bear!

DAY 17

haven't written in a few days... been busy with physio therapy (otherwise known as my torture session). actually it is going very well, but after doing the set of 5 and 6 exercises twice a day,  at the end of the week, which is now, my hip is some kind of sore!  but it's the good sore i used to get after a serious master dance class or roller skating through two sessions at the roller rink!  the whole no pain no gain thing. 

and still, the pain is nothing comparatively speaking.  the second set of exercises that i do at home, i can split up to not get so tired.  but i refuse to slack off even the tiniest bit.  this is serious.  i want my mobility back to the way it was 10 years ago.  and i am determined to get it.

my mom goes to the doctor in the Michigan today to find out what can be done for her hip.  pray for good news!  I'll post as soon as i know!

DAY 13

well, i went to physio today... 5 used to be regarded as little exercises... liked to killed me!  my hip was PEEELENTY tired in like a half hour!  this is gonna be work, i tells ya!  all good, but because the left hip has been compromised for a few years, it's gonna take some work to bring it back to where it originally was and then make it good enough to support the other one when i'ts done.... i definitely have my work cut out for me!  3 times a week for roughly 16-17 weeks!  gotta hit it like rambo...but now.... nap time! LOL  and after jann goes home on wednesday,  the help is gone, so i have to get back into some sort of swing cause i can't put it all on sadya.. she's got enough on her plate already.  so, time to turn into a ninja! HIYA!

DAY 12-SUnday

okay, i missed yesterday,  but jann came down and she'll be here for a few days... weather has been beautiful, but i think the good stuff is over.  rain and cold and snow are forecast.  trying to get a rolling walker, but don't want to spend the money.  maybe i'll just deal with one crutch in stead.  i'll try that today.  more later, maybe...

DAY10

well, it's day 10, i've got the formula for regularity, and it's killing me trying not to do stuff!  i have to talk to myself ALL DAY LONG!  "don't reach for that~" "don't pick that up!"  "MOVE YOUR ASS MONSTER" ( well, that ones not for me) but if also keep telling myself, if this is as bad as it gets... this ain't nuthin!  i would really, REALLY like to sleep on my left side though, but i'm sure that's mostly cause i can't.  it's like when they want to take blood and they say," Don't eat anything after midnight."  it sounds good on paper, and i normally don't eat anything after about 7:00 PM anyway, but tell me that, and I am STARVING from around 8:00 on!  i have to take my self to bed to stop eating stuff i don't even want, just cause it's there!
i remember once in oldcastle when the kids were little, a water main broke and they shut off the water for a few hours... who got the trots, and had a bursting bladder the entire time?  not the kids... they were fine.  only ME! 

DAY 9

well, i need to switch to a walker with wheels, cause this one is definitely slowing me up!  blair and susan came over today and david and janet yesterday, christine is coming over on saturday.  i am able to put quite a bit of weight on the leg now, but not enough to walk without some aid of some kind., but it is feeleing better everyday.  i don't think i'm doing miraculously, but when i compare the pain with the 4 c-sections and the hysterectomy, this just ain't that bad.  as i've been saying the hardest thing of all is that damn potty chair and trying not to break the 90 degree angle.  if anything is going to do me in, meaning drive me crazy, it will be those two things!

so i guess, all in all, i ain't go it too bad.