{"id":2135,"date":"2024-10-31T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2025-01-08T10:29:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T18:29:59","slug":"pain-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/ponder\/my-so-called-life\/pain-scale\/2135\/","title":{"rendered":"Pain scale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Them: so.. *head tilt* how are you doing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LOL. Anyway. I’ll save y’all from having to ask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m 7 months and two week post Bariatric Sleeve surgery and 3 week post hip replacement surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next Tuesday I have my post-op with the Orthopedic Surgeon’s office to get my (30!) staples removed. Hopefully I’ll get cleared of some of my precautions as well. My current hip precautions: no crossing my legs (which I’m good on since honestly I haven’t crossed my legs at the knee since I <\/a>was in my 20s), no bending beyond 90 degrees (ie, recline when I’m sitting, not allowed to pick anything up off the floor), no twisting. I’m hopeful I can twist a bit and then be able to go visit my chiropractor because my lower back is super angry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I had to pick a number on the pain scale it would mostly be related to my lower back pain. Mostly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lower back is generally a 2 but occasionally my lower back pops and it drops down to a 0 for a bit. Hip incision is a low-level 1, it itches but not especially painful, mostly annoying. I have a baseball size lump right around the top\/bottom of the incision which I assume is trauma\/adhesion. It sits about where my bursitis did pre-surgery. It’s not bad unless I press on it.. then it feels like a giant lumpy bruise. I’m trying to ice that daily to get it to go down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s weird.. not being allowed to pick things up off the floor means I’m noticing (and fixating) on all the things I’m seeing on the floor. \"\ud83d\ude15\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this point for getting around I’m using my cane exclusively (no longer using the walker). I have not yet started moving around without the cane. I cooked a dinner last weekend and it took ALL of my spoons.. in fact at the end I had to sit down and ask someone else to dish it up and serve it because I was DONE. So I have not yet figured out where the end of my energy is and I need to be careful to not over-exert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fearghus says I’m stubborn.. I think I’m just not good at not being able to do and so I try to do too much. He’s been fabulous at preventing me from overdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Them: so.. *head tilt* how are you doing? LOL. Anyway. I’ll save y’all from having to ask. I’m 7 months and two week post Bariatric Sleeve surgery and 3 week post hip replacement surgery. Next Tuesday I have my post-op with the Orthopedic Surgeon’s office to get my (30!) staples removed. Hopefully I’ll get cleared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":[],"wprm-recipe-roundup-description":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-so-called-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2137,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/2137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}