Showing posts with label showering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label showering. Show all posts

Friday, March 13, 2015

Day 10 Hip Replacement

Very tired and sore after physical therapy. I spent 10 minutes on the stationery bicycle and then 5 minutes on treadmill.  My place on treadmill was very slow, maybe .6 of a mile.  I had a hard time getting one foot the same distance in front of the other. I did ankle exercises and then added a new exercise where I marched in place as I set on the edge of the therapy bed. Extending my leg to the side is still very hard. I can't reach down to take off my shoe or raise my bionic leg more than a foot off the floor. But still I'm making progress.

I slept about 6 hours last night but took meds in the middle of the night. The pain was too much the night before.  Yesterday I. Went grocery shopping. A half an hour was too much to be in my walker. Then this morning I got up to go to the bathroom and forgot my walker until I was in the bathroom.  That hurt. I'm still not ready to walk unassisted.

When I showered today I could do everything - dress and undress, put plastic over my wound, soap and rinse, then towel off. Everything except Rowling my foot and taking off or putting on my bionic sock.