It's been officially one week post-op, folks.
And OH. if you're coming here from facebook, sorry about maybe/maybe not guilting you into checkin out mah post. It's sort of an expirement I wanted to try. To see if my hits went up or down signifigantly depending on what I wrote when I shared it.
ANYWAY quick update:
I've just dropped in with some good news. I was back to classes yesterday, which went well -- and I'm not even two weeks post-op! Ah! My optimism for this situation is unreal. I had a bit of soreness and swelling by the end of the day, but nothing scary that some ice didn't fix.
I'm still off work, but hopefully not for too long. I see my surgeon in nine days, which is when he'll evaluate me and my quads, gauging whether or not I still need my crutches; I'm hoping I won't. And I'm not just talkin the talk here, I've actually been walkin the walk (lol I crack myself up sometimes). But really, I've been trying to wake up my quads, and surprisingly it's going well, which doesn't happen for most people this soon post-op. (After this kind of surgery quad muscles tend to take a very unresponsive nap...)
The most difficult thing for me, so far, has been staying still. I'm usually always up and going places, exercising, socializing -- anything besides sitting in my dorm somewhere (movies and books excepted of course); but, I've come to see the positive things in taking it slow and sitting around.
And anyway, I suppose that the experience and knowledge I gain here will help me sometime down the road (though hopefully not in a similar situation x).
Stay strong (in more ways than physically)
follow your dreams (unless they're about world domination)
and look up once in a while (literally and figuratively)
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