Well, after rocketing through the early stages of recovery, it's been slowing down slightly lately. I guess the long-term bone healing and fine tuning of muscles is slower. I have noticed that if I do too much in the pool, I get quite sore. It's a fine balance between doing nothing, and doing too much. I don't know at the time if I've done too much, but that night I'll be quite sore.
I have been feeling really tired lately, but otherwise good. I haven't been able to get back into uni stuff, but have been trying to. My concentration just isn't there, and Bryan has been noticing that I am doing some dumb stuff... just not thinking, so I guess it's probably for the best that I don't try anything too taxing because I might have to fix it later!
I'm doing 30min walking in the water at the moment, and 6 lengths of the kickboard (which does stir things up a bit). The lifeguard at the pool knows me, and thinks I'm some weird walking frankenstein because he asked what the scar on my back was from! It was nice though to have someone say that it was amazing what I went through, because it was. My surgeon hadn't done a revision before, to this extent. He had no expectations of what kind of correction he would get, rather had just hoped to stop it from getting worse. So I'm really lucky to have the good results that I did.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
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Pre-op 2000
This is before I had any surgery on my back. It's looking at it front on. You can see the base of the spine is where it connects to my pelvis, and then how the top is out of line with the bottom, This made it look like I had one big hip, because my ribcage was off to one side.
Pre-op 2007
Here is how my spine looks now, you can see that the part that has the rods is straight, then at the top the unfused part goes off at a different angle. The surgery tomorrow is to fix that, by putting a rod from about 2 vertebrae up and 3 or 4 below the junction.