Glad to hear you are on the mend, at home, in relatively good spirits, and had a good poop!!
Hang in there, stay positive!!
Thank you good sir! I am doing my best to remain positive. So far, each day has been a little better than the day before it. Last night was a bit uncomfortable, because I believe I possibly had overworked my leg. Yesterday morning I spent a while in bed before I even got up doing some stretching and some PT exercises, and the leg felt really pretty good. Then I was doing all kinds of my PT in a recliner I've found to be comfortable, and I even got to take a shower which was great. I spent a lot of time moving around and stuff, wheelin' around in my chair and hanging out on the front porch, or the deck out back with my dad while he was cooking some chicken on the grill. Anyway, I think I may have overworked it a bit because it was a long, uncomfortable and painful night last night. I was pretty sore. So I'll need to find the balance between doing enough PT to help, and how much is too much for me at this stage.
This looks like a job for poop knife.
Haha! Seriously though, that first dump after coming home....I should have enlisted poop knife's services. It was, in fact, pretty...umm....firm.
Hey, here's a little Low Def Keef........ Dr Chili's orders, Hang tough bro, you can do this. In a soon enough time, the rough parts you traversed through will finally crest the mountain top and you will feel the ease of coasting down hill. As the recovery and ability to do more and more increases to the point you forget it ever hurt or felt weak, stiff etc. I know,,,,,,,,,,,, having faced many fiercely painful events and either recovered or processed each one, I was taught powerful lessons in my life and drawn to healing through much prayer and the kindness of others. With many tough patches coming from loss of the lives of friends who died too young to mental illness and rough stuff in our family, the man I became was shaped by the abrasions of life's trials. Blinky, I will step out in faith to say, I don't think it is a random chance that you and all of us here found our way here by accident. There is a reason and a plan for each of us, and as mercy has it, you have this place with an extended family, amongst friends who are here to support and encourage you during your rough patch.
From what I personally have seen of you, you have a good constitutional makeup to persevere and to have victory stories and even a new outlook and future goals with the new strengths you never knew you had or were able to summon. Keep the faith Blinky, you can do it. We wanna hear the story.
All my best to you and your entire support crew ( family and friends)
I believe that you are right. Thanks, chili, your words are inspiring. I do feel like I have an extended family here at TTR. So many of you have been very supportive and I have felt comfortable saying things here, and in this thread in particular, that I would feel uncomfortable saying to the faces of my best friends. That says to me that I truly am among friends, family, and other great people here.
Grateful am I, to be a part of such an excellent community of such fine folks.
Thank you, all of you!
On a scale of 1-10, When the pain comes on as meds/nugs wear off, what number are you today, say vs onset of incident and during recovery post surgery at the worst.?
Well so this has quite a few variables involved. While in the hospital post surgery, I was still taking 15mg of Oxy every 4 hours, along with 1000mg of Tylenol and 1000mg of methocarbamol, and dilaudid via IV, and still having pain crisis events...after coming home, there's been no more IV dilaudid, obviously, but I have been able to go as low as only 15mg Oxy during the whole day. Yesterday I required a little more than I took the day before, and I had really a hard time sleeping and getting comfortable. So I guess some days are better than others, but so far I have been surprised at my progress, my ability to move myself around (which is still minimal, but getting better each day)
As far as the nuggets, I don't know what I'm doing yet lol
I've been a cannabis user for years and years, however, I have never used it with the intent of using it for pain control. That first day, it really worked great. It seemed a little bit less effective the second time, and somewhat more effective later on. Last night, I'm unsure if it made much of a difference at all, considering that I was pretty sore after all the stretching and exercises, showering, and just being more active in general. So long story short - I'm not entirely sure that what I know about how to use weed is the best way to use it as a medicine rather than a vice. If that makes sense lol
To answer your question more directly, I do feel a lot better than I did while in the hospital. Hard to put a number on it though, it seems to come and go, it'll feel really pretty good now, and then an hour later it'll feel pretty bad. Ice packs and elevation seem to help with the swelling and the less swelling there is the less painful it becomes.
If I take the worst pain I experienced post op and assign that a 10, I would say that what I'm experiencing today relative to that, is probably no more than a 5 at most. For right now in this moment, anyway.
It hurts, and will for some time to come, but it's really already a lot better than it was just a few days ago.
