Post-op Update

I'm slowly starting to feel a little better each day. As of yesterday I'm not as tired, I can keep my eyes open for a little bit, before it was a lost cause.

I'm not quite ready to start skipping and cutting down on my medicine, I'm still in quite a bit of pain. Moving around is a struggle and makes my hip very soar, so I usually stay in a spot for the majority of the day. Right now, it's uncomfortable to sit up in my wheel chair so I either lay in my bed or on the couch.

I'm still not eating much. My dad made some homemade pita bread last night and I was able to eat that. Once I start cutting down my medicine I'll get my appetite back, but until then I just have to be careful that I'm eating enough so that I don't pass out.

Yesterday I had a bad headache, almost a migraine. I had a bad one in the summer with my right hip surgery. It turned out that I was getting too much oxycodone. Remembering that, my mom had me skip my next oxycodone and just take my other pain medicine (trazadone). After a nice long nap, my headache went away. Skipping the oxycodone was good for my headache, but it made my hip pain hard to control after that. It took a couple rounds of medicine to get it back under control.

I had some friends visit Friday, which was nice. They brought me a bag full of stuff from my journalism class with lots of useful recovery items to keep me warm and occupied. I really appreciate having my friends stop by, it makes my recovery more pleasant.