Hey all! Sorry it's taken a while for me to write. I've been doing a lot of sleeping and working on managing my pain. Day 1 was a lot of pain management. I hit a bump in the road in the evening when I got a fever. Day 2 I had a fever and high heart beat, so I spent a lot of time dealing with that. I didn't get much sleep between day 1 and day 2. Day 2 I also got up for the first time. This is always hard. Super nauseous the first time up, but felt better in the afternoon to get up again.
Today is day three. I slept much better last night and have switched from the epidural to pills which has really helped me progress. I am currently sitting up out of bed and will be up and moving here shortly.
The surgery itself went great. I'll post pictures eventually of the before and after X-Rays. The doctors were very pleased with the work they did. They said I had good bones, so it made it easy to rotate the cup. They had a lot of scar tissue to clean out from my surgery when I was 14 months old. So surgery was a little long but everything went great.
I'm gonna try to get a little bit of rest before I move around some more and I'll post later.
I should go home on Friday.
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I just got back in bed from taking a walk. I was also able to pee on my own! Yay!
The PT people said I'm approaching rock star status because I was able to do my walk and practice a step on the second day. My heartbeat and temp are still elevated so we are trying to work that stuff out. I'm thinking it's because of the pain I'm in.
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