10 Months

This post is delayed a bit.  Things have been crazy on the medical front, plus finals week and wrapping up yet another semester.  I am now a little over ten months post op from the left hip surgery. This has been a challenging month for multiple reasons, including a flare in the left hip that had been doing so well.  I had a sneaking suspicion when I finally acknowledged it was consistently doing well, that something would happen.  The hip itself is still doing well, but the muscles surrounding it have been pretty sore and irritated.  Timing suggests that tapering anti-inflammatory medications irritated right hip further, then combination of stopping anti-inflammatory medications completely plus limping/compensating for right hip contributed to flare of left hip a week or so later. Left hip is calming down now, right hip is still worsening, I think.  Honestly, trying not to think about it, but it keeps intruding upon notice.

Left hip is still far better than before surgery, and I am still so grateful for how well it is doing and what it can do.  Right hip is hanging in there.  It can be pretty miserable and limiting. Activity has taken a hit in terms of what I can do, how long, intensity, etc.  But, I can still move and do some things. It has been discouraging to go from being back to "normal" more or less, to being really restricted again. But, it is what it is. Just grateful for what I can do.

On the plus side, shoulders seem to be doing better for some unknown reason!  I can actually swim laps on consecutive days again and pace is getting faster again.  No idea why, but grateful and will take any improvement in anything at this stage!

There is a ton going on, but I am still processing, so not ready to comment much on things at this point. Just grateful to have survived another semester, survived another massive flare of all symptoms (and without a full blown crash!), starting to feel as if working back out of the mess somewhat. Focusing on getting through each day a moment at a time.  Curious about the future, but trying not to worry about things at this point.

Matthew 6:25-34

"Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?  Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?  And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

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