SURGERY:
so i went in for surgery march 1st 2011. As crazy as it sounds i was in the operating room for 7 hours! What had happened is the doctor went through and did the surgery and went back a second time and decided to change some things that he did to make it to his exact perfection, which i thank him for that because i want it to be so perfect that i will be set for life! :) Now what he did in the procedure was he went in and actually cut off half of my hip bone and shaved that so it was nice and smooth and rounded out so that it'd fit inside the socket just great. Also he went into my pelvis and cut it in 3 places so that he could rotate my pelvis up and over that new hip bone he had created. when that was all said and done he stuck 4 screws into my pelvis and to be honest it seriously looks like as if someone just got a nail gun and shot 4 screws into me. ha. they are just placed so random!
RECOVERY:
I was placed in the hospital for four days after surgery and wow the first night i was in the hospital it was the worst night of my entire life. they had put and epidural in me before surgery to help with the numbness but where the anesthesiologist place the epidural all the medication was going into my left leg (known as my good leg). But the problem was that there was so much medication that was being pumped into that left leg it ended up being so numb i could not feel my leg whatsoever and i then started freaking out. So at 3:15 about in the morning i called my nurse (brad) to tell him the problem he kept saying you're fine it is part of the medication. Later i called him again and said i really don't think this is normal. He goes on to touching my leg and asked can you feel me touching your leg at all? My reply was no. Well him and another nurse decided to try to stand me up and get me to walk? really? are you stupid? Of course they were because i just fell.
The rest of my stay at the hospital was really good i was not sick and things were great. The day i got to come home was friday. My dad was on his way to pick me up and just his luck he got in a car wreck. Stupid drivers just don't know how to drive and damaged my dads new audi. So he was like an hour late.
Since being home everything has been going so smooth and great. I have been feeling really good and have been walking really well with my walker and crutches. Nothing has been wrong nor have i had to worry about anything. I went to the doctor on monday and they said that everything was looking great and that i have been recovering extremely fast and that they had never seen someone heal so fast and good. I think its just because i am so young, they usually do this operation on old people so of course its going to be a longer recovery. Anyways they said to come back in 4 weeks for an x ray and see how the bones have healed and i may be able to put full weight back on my leg and be able to walk and start building that muscle back to make it strong and back to normal!!
I wanna thank all my friends and family for all their support and love through this and i could not have done this without them! i have the best people in my life that i could not as for any others to be in it! i love each and every one of you guys and really do appreciate what you have done. whether it has just been a phone call to a visit or sending me flowers or even bringing me dinner!! thanks!!
goals:
- start a hobby
- look into taking online college classes
- get back on my feet asap and get back into being able to work
- start going to the gym not just to rebuild the hip but to get back into shape for summer
- make something of myself so that i am proud of accomplishments and others notice it
- stay positive all day everyday. don't let anything get me down.
- SMILE! :))
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