And only ten days late....
Feb. 6th, 2006 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkI went in for my 6 month followup over a week ago, and I'm just now getting around to posting about it. Sigh.
So, anyway....
Not much to report, really. Xrays look good, doc is pleased with them, and with my symptom report (no -back- pain, per se; muscle stuff, he doesn't worry about so much; still some deadness in the nerves to no-one's surprise). But. Still no rehab. Followup in 6 months, possible release then. I don't know if that's because he thinks I won't need it or because he's gotten even more conservative about releasing patients. I asked, and he wouldn't say. He did say that as it's a double fusion it's going to take longer than a single fusion, as there's twice as much bone that needs to grow in. He kept reassuring me that even though the bone growth was only showing up as a mist on the XRays, and it was fainter this time than it was last, I'm doing 'just fine'. No shifting, and that's really what he's concerned about. The rest of it will follow. Eventually. Meanwhile, keep on keeping on, followup the week after Berzerker. "Call me if anything feels 'wrong'." As if I wouldn't.
I could wish for faster recovery, but it takes a while for all that trauma to heal. sigh. But I feel better than I did last month, so I guess I'm headed in the right direction.
I'm going to try getting to the gym twice a week, plus a day at the library (I've been doing the library bit, and it's really kind of surprising how good a workout it is - standing, sitting on the floor, on my knees, bending, and twisting). The plan is that I go "play" in the pool while SR's at swim club, but she's been battling a couple of colds this month, and hasn't been going to swimming. And of course we don't know that she's not going until she gets home from school, at which point it's too late for me to go in.
Bird report: I was not seeing things. We do have bluebirds wintering over - four of them! And I saw a red-bellied woodpecker at the seed feeder a couple of days ago.
So, anyway....
Not much to report, really. Xrays look good, doc is pleased with them, and with my symptom report (no -back- pain, per se; muscle stuff, he doesn't worry about so much; still some deadness in the nerves to no-one's surprise). But. Still no rehab. Followup in 6 months, possible release then. I don't know if that's because he thinks I won't need it or because he's gotten even more conservative about releasing patients. I asked, and he wouldn't say. He did say that as it's a double fusion it's going to take longer than a single fusion, as there's twice as much bone that needs to grow in. He kept reassuring me that even though the bone growth was only showing up as a mist on the XRays, and it was fainter this time than it was last, I'm doing 'just fine'. No shifting, and that's really what he's concerned about. The rest of it will follow. Eventually. Meanwhile, keep on keeping on, followup the week after Berzerker. "Call me if anything feels 'wrong'." As if I wouldn't.
I could wish for faster recovery, but it takes a while for all that trauma to heal. sigh. But I feel better than I did last month, so I guess I'm headed in the right direction.
I'm going to try getting to the gym twice a week, plus a day at the library (I've been doing the library bit, and it's really kind of surprising how good a workout it is - standing, sitting on the floor, on my knees, bending, and twisting). The plan is that I go "play" in the pool while SR's at swim club, but she's been battling a couple of colds this month, and hasn't been going to swimming. And of course we don't know that she's not going until she gets home from school, at which point it's too late for me to go in.
Bird report: I was not seeing things. We do have bluebirds wintering over - four of them! And I saw a red-bellied woodpecker at the seed feeder a couple of days ago.
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Birds
Date: 2006-02-07 05:20 pm (UTC)We had an Elm tree which got Dutch Elm disease. It lost all of its bark this winter, and was leaning towards our neighbor's shed, yard and fence.
Glad I didn't have to climb up 70 feet and swing a chainsaw around!