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Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 47
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Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 47
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Thanks for the update! I've been thinking of you! It sounds like you're doing great. How wonderful that you already have more motion!
It's such a big surgery, and it makes sense that you're so tired. It sounds like you're doing a great job with navigating the recovery. I struggled some with each new step (being discharged from the hospital, being up and around more, walking slightly longer distances, etc.) - sometimes it just felt so exhausting. But I could feel my body adjusting. It's a tough balance because you don't want to stay too sedentary but you definitely don't want to overdo it. My body would usually tell me when I needed to back off. A combination of a half of a Percocet and a half of a muscle relaxer at night helped me quite a bit in my earlier recovery.
I had numbness in my affected arm - especially my forearm. Now at 9 weeks post-op, it's almost all gone. I still have some numbness around the surgical site, but that's not bothering me.
Great work and best wishes as you move forward!
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