Gah no class. I took 800mg of Advil and a migraine med and happily slept away the pain. I vacuumed mostly on one leg, then sat on the couch a bit. It was a small area and i fear I'm the only upright monkey in this house that knows how it works.

Advil is da bomb. I'll pay for it though. But least i can trade gut pain dor leg pain if i gotta.

I'm not keen on having a day 9. I've decided to stay off the leg for a bit an quit aggravating it, least until i see the doc (Tuesday). I didn't eat much yesterday, so guess i need to cook for myself today. Think I'll try some eggs after this coffee and to make sure my first morning hydrocodone dose kicks in.

Dh mention that the bedding needs washed. "Yes it does, but that is a task i am not up for". I plan on ice and massage today.

shanaber wrote: »

@elise4270 - you have a package coming your way... hopefully some things to keep you occupied and entertained while you are recuperating... Amazon said they were all coming together and likely delivered on Monday, now says one thing is coming on Sunday... so who knows!

Lol! That’s so nice of you! You never know with our post. If it’s fed ex they tend to hand it off to usps and it adds a day or two. I hope it’s drugs, please be drugs! Hahaha! I’m just kidding! I’ve had 12 Norco in 3 days, down from 12/day. Sitting my *kitten* still seems to be working.

Day 10

I suppose pain is getting better, it’s just happening so slowly. Yesterday overall wasn’t so bad. This morning is two steps back. So. I think in cutting back the pain med, I cut back too far. Think today I’ll do 2 then 1 every 4-6 hours. 2 then wait 6 hours and then 1, wait 4 hours and have 2. Or something like that. I think going into the night (when pain seems to accumulate), that will allow me to do 2 every 4 instead of one as I’m not always spreading out the overlap of 1 dose every 2 hours, which never works. Idk if that makes any sense. I’m in pain. And think I took 3 or 4.5 in the last 4-5 hours. Sleepy pain- I just glance at the time and take one if my 4 hours isn’t up, 2 if it is. The half suggests I was in enough pain to push a get over the hump dose. I have one of those weekly pill boxes, think I find it and schedule it all that way. So I’m not guessing at it during the night. It’s hard trying to cut these back and manage pain. Tuesday the doc can advise me: suck it up or yes take them dummy.

Any broken bone stories to share? I didn’t figure it hurt this bad this long. The site of the “break” is tender, not horrible. But hip joint and knee pain are still overwhelming at times.

Dh is home this morning. Yay! Did not have to get my own coffee and I smell eggs and toast. Oops... I’ve been teaching the kitten to ride on my shoulder. He’s taken to it. He jumps on your shoulder when you are in the kitchen. I don’t have a problem with him, he doesn’t dig his claws in to me. I just heard dh scream. Well, bet the kitten is smart enough to catch on that it’s an individual privilege.

Day 12

Well I was at the point where I thought weekly cathartic updates would be ideal, rather than daily “kitten me” posts. But, since I can’t find any personal accounts of femoral osteotomy patients, I wanted something to come up for the next person, even if it’s on mfp. So if that’s the case, day 11 the pain seemed to turn around. For the first time since surgery I checked the weight bearing ability of the leg by stepping on a scale with only that leg. PT said to do this. To my surprise i was able to put 65 pounds on that leg, that’s 55% of my weight. I thought “not bad” considering I just read an account where a person wasn’t able to achieve this until 11 weeks post op, but that was a femur fracture.

Pain is still down. I managed on just 5 pain pills yesterday. So hooray! Finally I’ll get to clean those cat boxes!

Man i cant wait until hes too big to fit in there... And go outside to chase critters.

ETA tried to fix typos... kitten chasing my hands... sorry you’ll figure it out

Ok its asleep... I'm back to pre-op weight (yesterday). So I'll use that as an indication that I'm eating enough and be sure i don't drop below it. Its rather tempting, ya know, not hungry, not active... But I'm older (not 20's where recovery takes half the time). And know that i can seriously compromise my healing if I'm not conscience of it.

The swelling is down in the leg too. Just the knee remains noticably swollen.

shanaber wrote: »

Yay for improvement @Elise4270!! Baby steps but it is always encouraging to see things getting even a bit better!

Have you thought about taking these daily posts and starting a blog so someone searching for femoral osteotomy would find them? I mean you wouldn't have to type them twice just copy and paste? I have never had a blog but I am sure it can't be that difficult.

I don’t know about the blog. I can’t say I’m internet savvy enough to know how to do that with out paying for it. I could you tube some stuff.... but I don’t like looking at myself. Haha! I’ll check it out.