People say that life is a journey, and that you should enjoy the ride. It's rather difficult however, to enjoy a ride when you run out of gasoline/petrol and are stuck on the side of the road when you're in your 20's. It's worth pointing out then how awfully convenient it is for a mechanic in the form of an orthopedic surgeon to appear and get you going again. That's seriously how I feel right now. That life can finally start to resume, and that I can just get on with it.
I had my periacetabular osteotomy (or PAO) on the 12th, and it went so much better this time. There we some concerns for the doctor during the surgery that he explained to me afterwards, but he's confident that they're taken care of now. I didn't really get what he was talking about in the first place, but that was probably just because of the drugs. There was only really one day with nausea, and the rest went fairly smoothly. Another little hiccup was that physical therapy wanted me to get up mere hours after the surgery. It was too much for my body to handle, and I ended up fainting in classic Brummer seizure-like style.
It pays to know your medications when it comes to episodes like these. I was able to give the nursing staff the info they needed to keep the pain well under control, and the nausea for the most part was taken care of as well. No extended stays, no allergic reactions, no excessive pain, it was a dream compared to last time. It's also wonderful to have a caring family who was by my side for the whole time in case decisions needed to be made that I didn't feel I could make informed decisions about.
I went home on the 15th and have been making steady progress since then. I can now more or less get out of the bed and get back into it without help, but that's just a small step on the way to being able to walk.
A big thanks to everyone who has been there for me, I'll be up on my feet in no time :)
(Picture from www.hipandpelvis.com)
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