Aaaaaand, I had 2 sessions of PT. My muscles are strong from all my weight training and I’ve impressed my PT lady and my doctor with my progress. I can walk the very short set of stairs right around the corner from my room, I can walk bearing all my weight on my formerly bum hip leg. And I can do leg raises in all directions except across the center plane of my body. So I got cleared to move around the hospital room and my floor without the safety belt and without having to call a nurse to assist me. It still has to be with the walker, but at least I have some independence.

I don’t mind the IV, or the daily blood draws (except I wish they didn’t have to do them around 4:30-5:30am), but the drain near my incision is kind of freaking me out. I have to clip the little flat cylinder to my gown whenever I get out of bed, and they empty it once a day. Yuck. But the drain is far preferable to having a hematoma, which is a swollen spot under your skin where the blood has pooled near the surgical sight. I had read about some hip replacements that were done several years ago and the patient described feeling like they were sitting on a golf ball. That would be much worse that this freaky little drain.

One more night and morning here and headed home! Thank you again for all the positive stuff headed in my direction. I got flowers today from Jeri and Cadence and Christian, and I had students take Snaps of flowers and send the snaps to me. Lol. And I really appreciate the visitors, texts, phone calls, inboxes, tweets, etc. 😊