Healing Slowly But Surely
I'm feeling finer than a frog hair split three ways.
It's been 11 weeks now since I was released from the hospital following the wreck that busted my right hip joint/pelvis. The doctors instructed me to not put any weight on the right leg at all for 12 weeks. Well ok, I'm a week early but yesterday afternoon I decided to go ahead and try walking a little. After all, how much difference can another week make?
It was a quite painful exercise. I started out still using the crutches for support and just putting some weight on the leg as I walked. Just testing the waters. After a while I was able to apply more weight despite of the weakness and pain until I ditched one of the crutches.
This morning I started out with just one crutch for a while and after resting a while to let the pain ease up some I switched to my cane. This was a very wobbly experience at first but after a bit of practice I am able to very slowly and carefully walk around using just the cane. I do have to lean heavily on the cane as my leg will need a bit of exercise before it will totally support my weight. But it's a start.
I walked slowly out to the lanai and sat on the porch swing for a while enjoying the warm fresh air and sunlight, happy that I had walked that far without the aid of the now hated crutches. I am resting again now, waiting for the pain to ease up before trying again.
Hopefully I will slowly be able to depend less on the cane as I progress although the doctors told me that in all likelyhood I'll need it for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of my life. That remains to be seen. For now at least, I feel that I'm finally making some small progress in the healing process and making some headway towards being able to start looking for a job in another month or so,
I may be walking like a 90 year old man, but at least I'm walking.