Day 124

It’s wild to consider I am now 124 days post op from my hip replacement. All things considered, I’m pretty amazed at the whole process. Although I am not 100% better, I have managed to get back roughly 85% of my range of motion, and hope as time goes by and I continue to heal, that eventually I’ll be able to put my socks and pants on without having to put my leg in place with my hands. 

Pain has diminished, save for the incision hyper-sensitivity, and my inability to roll over on my left side. Yet. hopefully in time that will change too. 

These days I limp because of my problems with my feet, and this week I found (yet another) specialist who has a real plan (or “recipe” as he calls it), and today I start therapy with him for my feet and get cast for yet another pair of orthotics. 

Hopefully this will be enough to diminish my agonizing foot pain enough where I won’t be entertaining surgery on my ankle. The ankle has some soft tissue damage from my Mexican Adventure in 2019, but right now besides an occasional uncomfortable POP!, and instability, I don’t have pain. My pain issues are all on the bottom of the feet, bi lateral  heel spurs and plantars fasciitis. 

As I told the doc, I had the hip replaced to diminish pain and increase mobility, yet because of my feet, I can’t walk more than 3000 footsteps a day without losing countless days after, due to the resulting pain. 

So yet again, I start yet another journey of a thousand miles with a new specialist, and today I take those precious first steps.