Today is the first day that I don’t have family staying with me to help out. It’s really not inconvenient at the moment, except trying to carry things from one room to another. In a moment of inspired frustration, I attached a bike water bottle cage to one of my crutches. Now I can get water and coffee from room to room a lot easier.
I can feel the leg recovering and the pain level has definitely dropped off. Only have taken 1 pain med this morning and hope to keep it down to just a couple total for the day. They tend to make me nauseous unless I am seriously hurting and I think the threshold for that has shifted.
Flexibility in my ankle is good and my knee bends slowly. Not trying to push it at this point just keeping the flexibility there. I’m definitely thinking I want to get in the hot yoga studio room this week even if I just lay there. Taking these meds and being sedentary has me feeling like I need to detoxify and sweat out something.
Also I finally pooped today for the first time since surgery. Sorry if it’s TMI, but apparently it’s a side effect of the meds. My usual diet is mostly clean and predominantly vegetarian so this usually isn’t a problem. Feeling a little more back to normal I guess.