That's great to read Gary. Anytime the (literal) pain in your ass of major surgery is actually an improvement you know you got to be doing well. Love to see that things are working so well so quick. Congrats man, absolute great news.
What have the docs given you for expected time lines on different types of activity. Bearing weight or loads, riding or whatever? Or is it all just pretty much as you feel up to it?
As of right now I can bear as much weight on new joint as I can tolerate. I have exercises to do every day (home nurse comes once a week to check blood because I'm on Coumadin, and I have a PT that comes to house 3 times a week). Have an appt w/surgeon in two weeks, as of now they want me to take it easy, do as much walking that I can tolerate (I have no problem going up and down steps) and work on getting strength back in my upper leg/buttocks. They don't want me to drive for 4 - 6 weeks, but I'm thinking if I keep progressing as I am that may get modified since the procedure was done on left leg and my vehicle is automatic.
I haven't mentioned anything about riding motorcycles to my surgeon. Don’t know what his take on this is going to be, and I'm going to be the one to decide when I have the strength to do that. This will definitely be down the road some after staples are removed, scar tissue has dissolved, and strength is back in my leg muscles.
My main three precautions now are keeping the left leg inline w/my body as much as possible (have to be careful of this getting in and out of bed), no bending further then 90 degrees at waist, and not over rotating my toes inward/outward of leg w/new joint (this can cause it to pop out of socket). Incision is healing well no signs of infection, excessive drainage. It's just shy of 12 inches long and has close to 30 staples in it. Normal precautions to watch for that as with any type of incision.. swelling, infection, excessive drainage, soreness, etc. etc.
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Ride Safe,
Fired00d
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