Hello,
Just thought I would share with the group a progress report. Swam today with some swim buddies, felt great to be moving. I stopped at 2000 yards, my group is a bunch of grinders, felt myself starting to
push it, time to stop. I continue to walk twice a day on the treadmill. Or as I like to call it the dreadmill. I prefer to be outside, but it is still safer, and warmer than outside right now living in MAINE. I’ve dropped down my walking miles a bit, because I ramped up a little too quickly in PO week 3. Brought the dog for a 1 1/2 mile walk in a snow covered field. Not one of my best decisions, but just was a little sore for a couple of days. This past week, I have not taken any pain meds, the only issue is my elbow from swimming a lot pre surgery. The nice thing about taking all of those pain meds post op is that my elbow did not bother me. I thought taking several weeks off from swimming that my elbow would heal up. I was wrong, it is kinda nice that now my elbow bothers me more than my hips! I was going to go back to S.C. for my 6 week check up, I decided to do my follow up remotely because I’m really am not having any issues. I’m looking forward to working on strength and flexibility. I Will be meeting with a local physical therapist for an evaluation, and report that to Dr. Gross. Looking forward to doing some different stuff, I think he told me I could start riding an indoor bike, golf, and play tennis at 6 weeks. I need to check with him on the tennis. That seems to me like it could be a little too much.
I will say that I am really happy that I had both hips done only 2 days apart. Had I stuck with my original plan I would have been heading back down to see Dr. Gross this coming week to have my second hip done. Glad that I had some advice from this site to help me make that decision. Not to say that 6 weeks apart, wouldn’t work for someone else, but in my case it was worth doing both together.
Regards all,
Tony
Tony
Thanks for your update. Sounds like you are doing great. Looking forward to more updates.
I wish you the best.
Pat