Quick PT update

I had PT today at 2 pm. My hip was really starting to hurt beforehand so I ended up taking a pain killer. I can't wait till I can stop so I will be able to finally enjoy a lovely glass of wine.

We cabbed it to PT and the drive surprisingly did not take too long (we thought it might with all the big shots at the UN this week). I have been walking better and definitely much improved in moving around since a week ago, and the boys at PT noticed. This of course meant that they had to go and give me harder things to do. I was amazed at how much more I was able to tolerate this week, it being only a week. My left hip has been popping on the outside a lot when I walk on crutches, so I've been trying to move without it doing this by taking smaller strides with my left leg. I started today with the bike, and was to do it between 10 and 20 minutes, as much as I could tolerate. By minute 9 I was buggered and both hips were hurting but I kept going till minute 13. Probably should have just stopped at 9 but I was trying to push through it. After that I was given a few new moves, such as turning my leg on a chair to stretch it out and kneeling on all fours then going to a squat position. I wasn't able to do a complete squat but was told that I was doing better than anticipated. I am sort of the "guinea pig" at the PT office since I have so many things wrong, they are always having to come up with new ways for me to do their exercises that will not hurt me more than help me. It always seems to be slightly comical. After that I did all the other exercises from last week and then iced for 10 minutes. I was there in total for almost 2 hours. I told my PT that all the time I banked before surgery should somehow be able to cancel all this out and I should have been able to walk out of the operating room in perfect condition. I know it's not possible but it's a bit old and tiring that I've been in PT since the end of December and now have at least another three months of it to "look forward to". ARGH. Sorry for the whinging, they are all very nice there, but it does get redundant after a while.

After we left the cabs were all off duty already, so we rang a car service to pick us up. This was much more civilised and definitely easier on my legs than last weeks nightmare of trying to get home during rush hour. I also made next weeks appointment for earlier in the day so hopefully we will not have any trouble finding a cab after the session.

I am knackered so will say good night here.

Spoke too soon

The last two nights I have been getting about 4-5 hours sleep and then waking up and not able to go back to sleep. It's not so much pain, as I took some pain pills before, but the fact that I just can't get comfortable on my back or on my side with a pillow between my legs. I am a bad sleeper to begin with and lack of comfort with sleeping positions is just exacerbating the issue.

Yesterday we came back to the city. Thankfully I wasn't queasy on the drive back; I thought I was going to be so ill on the way out to the island last week. I did the CPM for two hours and when we were taking my leg out of it, I must have twisted or turned a bit too much one way as my hip started screaming in agony. I was so annoyed as I hadn't needed to take a pain pill since I went to be on Monday night. After this incident the pain just got worse leading me to cave in and take a pain pill. I was quite a grump the rest of the night. (Until House came on - I LOVE HUGH LAURIE!!! I've been watching the complete set of Jeeves & Wooster - I put it on when I have to spend the time on the CPM - and I absolutely love it. They don't make television like they used to, for the most part. Anyway, I highly recommend watching this series, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are completely brilliant!)

Haven't taken a pain pill yet today, trying to get on without it. I'll see how I'm doing before PT, may take one just to avoid the after effects of the torture. So not looking forward to this outing. Then again, at least it will get me outside for a bit.