ESSAY BY HEIDI JOHNSON-WRIGHT
By
my second full day, I walked about 30 feet.
By discharge day, I could walk 130
feet at a stretch.
I was sent home with a customized platform walker, PT orders
and prescriptions.
My husband took me out for Chinese food on the ride home to
celebrate.
For the next couple weeks, I worked like a dog each day on exercises.
My hope was to return to work in five or six weeks.
All was going well until
about a month after the surgery, when excruciating muscle spasms and nerve pain
came out of the blue.
I
had suffered with musculoskeletal pain for 30 years, but nothing could have
prepared me for this load of bricks.
My surgeon confirmed that the bones were
healing very well, but the pain was likely the result of his lengthening my leg
about a half inch.
The muscles and nerves were being required to serve a longer
leg, and were temporarily rebelling.
He gave me muscle relaxants and a nerve
med.
I was much better in a couple weeks, and eased back into a full-time work
schedule.
SAY CONTINUES TOMORROW -- FEBRUARY 11
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