On my left hip.... I expect high fives, stomach bumps (as high as you can jump, within restrictions, only if your PT says it's ok
).
Feeling great on the left hip, really good overall. I had my ~1 year once over with Dr. Snyder, everything looks perfect, the only thing lagging is that apparently one of my muscles on the right hip is not strong enough, so need to work on that. It only shows when I balance, so I bought some juggling balls and am practicing juggling while balancing on that foot.
Overall, and I can't believe I'm saying this about major surgery, it is the best thing I've done for myself. The erasing of pain and limitations from my life has been a real healing experience. I have improved greatly from both a physical and emotional perspective.
I am normally reserved about promoting this for people despite being a strong backer of HR, since I believe each person has to make up their own minds at their own pace, but I'll take this post to encourage anyone who is in the kind of pain I knew and in the mind set that I was in to take that step, this has been an incredible boon for me.
Off the pulpit without any pain.
I was talking to a friend of mine whose wedding I was in about a year before my first, and remembered that during the reception all of the ushers had to jump up on a stage about a foot off the ground in front of the whole wedding crowd - the other ushers jumped right up and I jumped as well, but blanched in pain when I got up and almost didn't make it. Then I had to jump down later, very nasty - today, I plan to do the same jump somewhere in celebration. I just have to find a wedding and crash it