65 Days Post Op.
I am getting stronger. I can feel the change taking place, well, it's what I can't feel anymore that matters right now. Since I've started practicing heel to toe walking, the pull and tightness in my calf and middle toe has gone away. The weird pain in the back of my knee when I walk has gone away. What I have noticed is that my right knee and bottom of my right foot has started hurting a little more. So it's always something if I am looking for it. For the most part I do try not to focus on the pain and live my life.
That's how I lived my life for the past three years in specific. Living and not focusing on the pain, but addressing the pain as well. Doing things like walking, and stretching, taking a Tylenol, and after speaking with my doctor about it, a muscle relaxer to keep me active to help keep me out of the surgeon's office. I always asked myself if I chose this, or kept doing this, would I be regretful later on, and my answer was always "no." I always chose what I was comfortable with, what I chose was always right for me at the time. I am glad that I waited for eight years and a half years. Towards the end of it, I was really ready for the surgery and ready to be in healing pain as I told my doctor's office and not in this miserable pain that my condition had started becoming.
For the first few weeks of surgery, I had my family bring me breakfast, lunch and we always ate dinner together. I highly recommend if you don't have family to help you, to have a food delivery service, bring you already cooked meals, or if you have a close friends group to start a meal train to help with meals afterwards. The food and nutrition you take in after surgery helps with the healing process as your body is now adapting to new foreign objects in it and repairing itself from the trauma that surgery brings. I don't recommend losing weight during this time, if you can help it. As always consult with your doctor for all your health needs.
I am walking more and I still need to lay down and rest on days as well. I am about 80% with my ability to function in the day without any major pains, the only drawback is that I am drained and fatigued the next day afterwards. Tiny steps. I'll get there. I know I will. I am focused on how far I've come, not how much further I think I need to go. I'll keep on walking, doing my physical therapy and eating to stay healthy. Which is a big deal. As you can tell this takes a lot of focus and you'll have to excuse me, if I don't have the mental capacity to write or submit a post. I know, it weighs heavy on me too. This is my dream and it hurts to walk away from it, or to not pursue it when I am too tired, or pulled away. Know that I am doing my best and that in time I'll get to where I need to be. Until then, know that I'll be praying The Holy Rosary and attending Mass regularly with my whole focus on God first.
Thanks be to God always!
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