Today marks the one year mark for my surgery. As in previous posts I have to say that things have went very well. Pain has been virtually non existent. Last week I did have quite a bit of pain in the area of the surgery site, but I believe that it was muscle related from some canoeing the day before. Either way it went away without any meds or medical intervention.
I'm feeling quite lucky and considering I am at the one year mark with no regression or any sort of indication of problems I believe that I can put all of this behind me :)
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Friday, April 6, 2012
6 Months!
Yesterday was the 6 month anniversary of me leaving the hospital after surgery. Since that time I have recovered and improved quite nicely. After my last update I started working again and have been for the last two months. I am happy to report that all is going well. I have noticed some relatively minor discomfort at the surgery site since beginning work, but it isn't even something that I would take a tylenol for. I am hoping that it doesn't worsen and am only attributing it to the difference of being physically active versus mainly laying around.
I was very fortunate with my first job since surgery because my general foreman and foreman are both gentlemen that I know and they have been following my recovery, so they are really looking out for me and my well being. They have been very understanding of my circumstances and are always willing to let me take the easier job if I need to, although I have not and do not anticipate the need to 'take it easy'.
Every once in a while I do get that 'nervy' sensation down my leg, but it is only minor and it quite honestly feels to me like what people report as a ghost pain. Either way it is not something that lasts any amount of time and required no medication.
Again my report is quite favorable and hopefully it stays that way.
I was very fortunate with my first job since surgery because my general foreman and foreman are both gentlemen that I know and they have been following my recovery, so they are really looking out for me and my well being. They have been very understanding of my circumstances and are always willing to let me take the easier job if I need to, although I have not and do not anticipate the need to 'take it easy'.
Every once in a while I do get that 'nervy' sensation down my leg, but it is only minor and it quite honestly feels to me like what people report as a ghost pain. Either way it is not something that lasts any amount of time and required no medication.
Again my report is quite favorable and hopefully it stays that way.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
4 Month update
Well, it has been 4 months already. Tomorrow we go see the surgeon and find out if I can get the okay to go back to work. I think that I will, I sure feel like I can. I'm starting to get a little impatient with all the waiting. With being pain free, having lost 50+ lbs and the cpap to correct my sleep apnea I'm raring to go.
As far as the spine goes I have not much new to report, I've been pain free since the last report. The only real difference is that with the last report if I tried to lift something too heavy I would really feel it at the surgical site. Now when I lift heavier things I don't feel it so much. There is occasionally a minor ache but I wouldn't even take a tylenol for it, which is amazing considering all the gabapentin and dilaudid that I was taking pre-surgery.
I have noticed that my back feels 'different' above the surgical site now. I don't know how to explain it, I'm hesitant to call it pain, but it feels kind of weird and uncomfortable at times. I suppose it's just that things are different on the inside and I'm going to have to adjust to it.
As far as the spine goes I have not much new to report, I've been pain free since the last report. The only real difference is that with the last report if I tried to lift something too heavy I would really feel it at the surgical site. Now when I lift heavier things I don't feel it so much. There is occasionally a minor ache but I wouldn't even take a tylenol for it, which is amazing considering all the gabapentin and dilaudid that I was taking pre-surgery.
I have noticed that my back feels 'different' above the surgical site now. I don't know how to explain it, I'm hesitant to call it pain, but it feels kind of weird and uncomfortable at times. I suppose it's just that things are different on the inside and I'm going to have to adjust to it.
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