Post-op update: almost three weeks!

Tomorrow is three weeks post-op, and I have two updates, finally:

"Winter Storm Fern" (as a person named Katrina, I hate the practice of naming storms, but shared meaning and all that...) had me miss two PT sessions and my first post-op last week, so all of that has been pushed into this coming week. Since that was when I was supposed to be graduated from my walker back to my cane... I graduated myself. tbh, I've been walking around smaller rooms in my house unassisted. I feel totally stable on my new joint, at this point it's just what's left of healing the sutures and the bone. And not getting tripped by stir-crazy cats.

And today I have this weird nerve thing in my left thigh. It's nowhere near the incision, much lower on the thigh. I'm pretty sure it's my body telling me it's time to switch back to the Baclofen from the post-op Robaxin. Baclofen has never been much of a muscle relaxer for me, but it does turn off the "spine ache" from my spinal cord injury, so I'm on a 10mg daily dose... as long as I'm not on Robaxin. I'm going to switch it up tomorrow, and see what happens.

And turns out all that gastrointestinal distress and sweat-outs right after the surgery was probably norovirus. My sister brought the same symptoms home from her job just this past week, and gave them to her boyfriend. I didn't spread it because I was isolated in my bedroom. So, maybe those aren't common post-op symptoms after all.