More than a month
I knew it had been a while but Wow more than a month - things have been crazy!! Obviously!!
Where to begin? I had a follow up MRI on my shoudler on 10/7. They found that my AVN had gotten worse - not better! I was in danger of having the humeral head collapse - I neede surgery and it really couuldn't wait - I had 2 drs tell me the same thing on the same day - so I set a date for surgery 10/24 - then the mad scramble to get ready to be out of commission for 4-6 weeks! I needed to get work (at work) caught up an ahead if possible. And of course stuff around the house needed to be prepared s well. Then we had a string of company my parents, my in-laws and the brats (my husbands nieces) our furnace died on a fairly cold day when my parents were here from FL - Great! I called my brother who installs HVAC for a living - just for some advice (he lives 300 miles away) - he said I can be there on Wednesday - AMAZING!!! He packed up his tools, bought a new furnace - called my sister - she came with him! They had the whole thing replaced in about 4 hours - my brother and my husband - my sister and I talked!! Family sure can be wonderful somtimes!! I'm still amazed that he did that for us!! Saved us a bundle of $$ and I feel really confident that we got what we need rather than what some guy wanted to sell us! All that in the 2 weeks I had to prepare for surgery!
Since the 24th I've been recoperating!! On to the hip...
I'm supposed to be walking from 1 - 5 miles/day depending on how I feel. So far I haven't because of the shoulder. But I will soon!! When I see Dr Nicola again 12/4 - I need to take my running stuff so he can tweak my gait and then I expect to be free FINALLY!!!! My hip has been feeling really good - of course I haven't stressed it at all But I'll take Good anyway I can get it!
The shoulder is coming along nicely. It's started to feel much better in the last day or so - I can still tell I had surgery but it's better. From the shoulder perspective I have no lower body restrictions except that the dr doesn't want me to drive yet (probably another couple of weeks) so I can't really get to the gym. I just took my first unassisted shower this morning - it sure felt good - not that I didn't enjoy Ty's help but it was nice to wash the way I wanted to wash! So - now that I can shower by myself I can go out and walk around home - get sweaty and then clean all by myself!
I start PT today - I told the people at the therapy place that I should be invited to their holiday party!
I talked to my internist last night as well as the Ortho guy on Wednesday - they still want me to see a Hematologist to be sure I don't have some clotting problem because of the stress fracture and the AVN - they want to be sure. The Ortho guy already spoke with the Hematologist and the internist said she would call him today. I asked them both to do that because the Hematologist wasn't sure why I needed to be seen. It's so much fun! I hope to get all this figured out before I go back to work!! Did I tell you - I'm off until 11/30 unless my employer starts to complain - gotta love my Ortho guy!! He gave me some cool pictures of my shoulder - the human body is truly amazing!
A part of me was glad to have so much going on - that way I didn't get to think about missing the marathon (too much) - It was pretty disappointing! Next year WILL BE BETTER!!! And I will appreciate it so much more than I did!!!
I'm doing this all one handed so please excuse the typos!!
I'll be back much more regularly now!! Tomorrow - I hope to have pictures of me in my shoulder rehad chair thing with my new laptop desk - which is making this blog possible!!
Have a good day!
Gotta Run !!
3 Comments:
Good luck for your shoulder. I think you need a long vacation to forget the troubles. Italy would be great: warm and beautiful (maybe I say that because I am italian....)
Whew---what a ride you've been on! Over a year of struggling with this, you deserve a medal (Ty too!)
But it's almost over!! Yahoo!!! We'll all be out there running! The next Chicago Marathon will be the "old group"! Watch out!!
Glad to finally hear from you. I was missing you too much. miss you oh so much. Soon you will be back. Tell Lisa I say hi. Some ways I am actaully Jealous because you get to see Lisa but I do hope you have no reason to see her again.
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