ESSAY BY HEIDI JOHNSON-WRIGHT
I
was expected to start weight bearing just a couple days after surgery.
The
hospital’s PT staff was unable to bring me the type of walker I needed to
attempt to stand, despite my daily entreaties.
Three days after surgery, a PT
somehow persuaded me to walk a couple steps with nothing to take the weight off
my legs but holding his hand. I’m not a bragger, but I guarantee even Dick
Butkus would have wept like a baby from the amount of pain it brought me.
I
knew it was hospital discharge day because that’s when the maintenance staff
fixed the A/C in my room.
The rehab facility had everything the hospital did
not: highly skilled PTs, OTs, and nurses who knew how to care for hip patients,
quality cable TV and functioning A/C with a thermostat I could control!
RECOVERY ESSAY CONTINUES TOMORROW -- FEBRUARY 9
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