Hip

Them: so.. *head tilt* how are you doing?

LOL. Anyway. I’ll save y’all from having to ask.

I’m 7 months and one week post Bariatric Sleeve surgery and 2 week post hip replacement surgery.

Not much changed this week. My hip pain lingers at maybe a 1 but most of that pain is tendon soreness and itching on the incision. I’m scheduled to get my (30!!) staples out on 10/8 and hopefully at that time the doctor will release me to sleep on my side. Currently I’m still required to sleep flat on my back and that is REALLY hurting my lower back (teh Intarwebs says that sleeping on my back is the best way to sleep for back pain… Teh Intarwebs is full of poo and liars).

Since my hip surgery day I’ve lost 9 lbs.. which is more than I lost in June, July, August or the first part of September. I’m happy and irritated at the same time. Happy to be down.. but irritated that nothing happened in the previous 3 MONTHS. Meh.

It also occurs to me that I have finally achieved my goal of the last two years. The thing that started all of this health kerfuffle off.. my goal was to get off of the NSAIDs. To do that I had weight loss gastric sleeve surgery, lost 60 lbs, and replaced my hip. Go me!