Five Weeks Post-Op!

How long should I be doing these recovery count-outs, anyway? Final post-op appointment is the 20th, so likely to week 7... which is pretty impressive, spine all took 12 weeks for full recovery. I would have assumed it would take about that long to heal bone around a titanium implant, but this is going lickety-split.

I mean, January, as January tends to do, seemed to drag on forever, but as time spent on opioids also tends to do seemed to go by in a blink. I'm honestly kind of in shock that I'm already this far into recovery.

As for how my hip is actually doing, it's doing really well. I sat down a little fast yesterday, and that caused a little pain, but it was definitely my fibromyalgia going "SLOW DOWN TURBO OMG IS EVERYONE OKAY?!?!?" A little stretch, little light massage, and a little rest calmed it down pretty well. It's still a little nerve-y today, I may up my Cymbalta temporarily to calm it down more.

But I'm even getting out a little! My town's American Legion starts their Lenten Fish Fry during Carnival season. Might as well, everyone's stir-crazy by this point of the winter, and it's a huge fundraiser for them... anyway, my butt was in my seat at doors for opening night this past Friday, eating all-you-can-eat fried fish, with my next-door neighbors at the next table.

And yes, the beer in the corner is very accurate. $2 for a 12oz pour.

I also updated my recipe blog for the upcoming holidays... I've had ideas for romantic at-home Valentine's Day dinner dates up for awhile, and now I have a whole menu up of allergy safe recipes that can be made edibles for 4/20. I'm definitely going to work on a St. Patrick's Day menu, too. I originally wrote "probably," but the more I wrote this paragraph, the more I started brainstorming 🤣🤣 I know that it's not really celebrated as more than a church holiday in Ireland, pagans won't celebrate because snakes = druids (supposedly), and that it's basically just an excuse to get shitfaced in America. But it gives me an excuse and a deadline to experiment with dairy/gluten/egg/nut free soda bread and scones for the Irish and Americans of Irish descent with food allergies, and work on some healthier drinks that won't interfere with your meds like cheap green beer, Guinness or Harp, or shots of Jameson will, and will be tasty spring tumbler fillers that aren't toxic sludge like WaterTok concoctions are.

Watch this happen fast, I'm one of those Americans of Irish descent who spent their teens and 20's celebrating St. Patrick's Day with the local Gaelic League, and going home to a crock pot of corned beef and cabbage (a fully American tradition, I know, but dudes, it's so cheap in the days before the holiday), and a loaf of soda bread in the Dutch oven. So, these are recipes I have a fair amount of experience with the original versions of, I should be able to de-allergy-fy them fairly easily.

Okay, I'm about to get some scones going...