It all began when I went to the Museum of the Far Eastern Art of Ramat Gan (bet you didn't even know there was one, did you?!) with a friend, naively thinking that, having felt so good lately, it would be no problem to wander slowly through the small collection.
(Personal pic: The Yechiel Nahari Museum of Far Eastern Art, Ramat Gan)
By the time we got back to the entrance to my building, I was really feeling a bit ill. (To my dear friend who was with me, who I suspect is reading this, PLEASE do not feel badly about this. It was my idea to go & I had no idea it would affect me so adversely. I had a delightful time despite the aftermath.) Nauseous and once again, my gluteus maximus proved just how maximus it really is! I took the Tramadex & got into bed.
The following day I was sore but undeterred. I decided to skip the PT exercises and went walking with Little Man instead. Albeit not a long walk, but halfway through I felt so drained, we had to stop and rest. For the remainder of the day, I was exhausted.
Finally yesterday, after two days of feeling generally awful, it occurred to me that I hadn't taken any iron for the past two days and despite a lifetime of professing that I could "live on matzoh and butter", realized that, sadly, this is actually not possible. Bear to the rescue, he made a big pot of lentil soup and instructed L to make a lettuce salad. Shabbat dinner infused with iron-rich foods. Yum.
Then I broke down and took a sleeping pill, because the previous two nights, I had woken up, ostensibly from the pain in my ass and suffered from some very bizarre dreams. And we have already learned the lesson of how sleepless nights affect recovery...
Today I awoke a new woman. Feeling good. Feeling much stronger. This morning's walk was a painless 3.6 km in 62 minutes, including an iced-coffee break at Cafe Viola. That's a first. And because I didn't intend to focus on the negative in this blog post, I thought I'd give you a string of other "firsts" that I've managed recently:
- solo shower tonight (first time I've bathed alone in nearly 6 weeks!)
- laid on my stomach on my bed reading (my fav Saturday activity)
- got up and down the stairs like a normal person at last (slowly)
- successfully did side leg lifts (ok, ok, so cheated a little bit - my knee was bent)
- finished knitting my first sweater (to be featured in a future post after blocking)
Tomorrow is, unbelievably, 6 weeks post-op. I'm excited about the prospects of the restrictions being lifted when I see Prof Palmtree on Monday. Although I'll probably continue to have good days and bad ones, just like everyone does, I'm looking forward to racking up some more "firsts" with my brand new hip in the coming weeks.
Will keep you posted. Sayonara for now.
Engravings from the series "Lives of the 47 Ronin Faithful Samurais"
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1847-48)
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