3 Months Post Op

I was reminded it’s been 3 months since my surgery. Doing pretty well. Honestly hadn't given it much though since I returned to work - thinking how long it's been. They say can take up to a year to fully heal, but I haven’t noticed any difficulties directly related to the incision sites. Scars still turm purple-black with temperature fluctuations. I guess I could hope that the muscle soreness/pain twinges in my arms and legs might be because my surgery site is grabbing extra feel good nutrients and the rest of me is depleted of nutrients and that’s why they’re cranky. Yeah, that’s it. Sure, let’s visualize that as a twisted logic and why one should have hope it’ll eventually feel better.

Want to go on record that I didn’t resume activity too fast after surgery. Although I was a smidge impatient to go back to exercising, I knew I couldn’t start up right where I left off. I did wimpy weenie slow modified movements of everything. The shoulder started aching a couple weeks prior to surgery. I still haven’t done any real weights yet. I pulled out the 1-pound wrist weights a couple of times but everything hurts too much to do much with them. And it’s now been a month and a half since I got the green light. It’s not like I whipped out the 10 or 15 pound weights and was surprised things hurt.

I experimented for two weeks on the shoulder and I give up on what to try next. If I push myself hard and long enough, it’s nasty, and then it eventually gets better late evening. I’m sure the lesson here is that I should exercise first thing in the morning. I cannot find words to stress enough how much I am not a morning person. Caffeine in hand, I head out to work bleary-eyed before breakfast. I might not even trust myself to send out important e-mails in the first hour if I’m still half walking up. To suggest I not only get up earlier, but early enough to hydrate and be conscious enough to not injure myself doing what seems like semi-strenuous activity, take a shower, and then go to work? Uhm, not unless I’m on a swing shift. All for the hopeful reward of possibly feeling better by late afternoon? I think not. 2 minutes of slow Cheater Tai Chi before work? Maybe. But 20+ minutes of regular exercise?

Two more weeks until I can get into see the doc about my shoulder and follow-up on my knee. Fingers crossed they have some ideas for me. If this is simply getting older, all I can say is this really sucks.