Bad news. Back on 2 crutches and hip is feeling loose. Crappy combo. Its been a rough few days. Walking on one crutch was a stretch - but it was so much more convenient and felt like "progress" so i kept going. Only, it was getting more and more painful, which is not the goal. So, back onto 2 crutches based on the reality check from my PT. If I'm walking like a pirate with a peg leg, either get an eye patch or bring back the second crutch.
This week was also the first week of adding external rotation and extension. I hadn't been allowed to do that for the first 5 weeks in order to let the joint capsule heal up all nice and tight. This was because of the looseness I had been feeling after surgery. So, I'd worn the damn hip brace for 5 weeks. I hadn't taken a full stride for 5 weeks. And had slept in the damn foot boots with my feet strapped together for 5 weeks. All sucky annoying things that I did, thinking it would pay off in the end. Things seemed to be going well. Tightening up. Less and less incidences of looseness. Well, its been 3 days of freeing myself from those restrictions and the looseness is back. Wonderful. Very discouraging.
I have an email in to my dr. people to see what their advice is.
Meantime, icing and advilling and blogging :)
happy saturday folks.
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