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So I have now been working solo just short of 2 weeks now and I can honestly say it's affecting me. Between the pain and trying to get around to doctors, physical therapy, then having to deal with clueless vendors and applications that refuse the work the same for every user .... the least I can say is I am frustrated to no end and need to calm down a little.
I have been running all over the building during testing and my hip is hurting to the point I stopped long enough to cry in the bathroom. There is a horrible pinch in my lower back, assuming it is the sciatic nerve doing it. I just want to cry, and hard. I can't hold it all in anymore and be expected to function on a normal level. The lack of understanding of what I am going through on a professional level is near sickening. So, suck it up and just do it right ? There has to be a point my body is going to tell me it can't work at this pace anymore and it's going to leave me in a very bad state.
Well, I took a minute out to sit down and breath but time to get back to the grind.
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Oh Erin sorry, I'm with you on all that...hope the work pressure and pain both ease up X
ReplyDeleteHa! ...and here I was thinking I was the only one on the planet going through this! Thanks for sharing Erin...and greetings from New Zealand! I am 48 female (I have a very helpful partner but also TWO very self interested teenagers, and a house with FIVE internal half staircases!!!) I am now FIVE weeks post op. I had two weeks off work (computer graphics at a print company - more stairs!), since my return everyone else here has been off having their holidays....GGRRRRR!
ReplyDeleteThe following is from my op notes: 'arthroscopy showed that there was significant contuse of the anterior labrum and significant fraying of it and some degenerative changes throughout, therefore decided not to repair this but rather to resect it, I used the Vapour and the Burr to do this. Then I resected the anterior acetabular margin where there was chondral damage and used the Burr to this, got this back to a stable margin. I then looked at the head/neck junction and ran the hip through a range of motion and found it was significantly impinging anterolaterally, I used the Burr to resect this.' My surgeon told me "it was pretty ugly in there!" I do worry that because he couldn't repair the Labrum and I still have pain that I still might need a hip replacement. It has an epic journey and taken me more than SIX years of pain/stress/specialists/tests/insomnia/antidepressiants (my GP suggested it might "all be in my head!") to get diagnosis and this surgery. I'm sorry I didn't learn about the silk sheets and silk PJs earlier...does everyone know about the plastic bag on the car seat trick, I wonder?! Anyway, I hope you have had the energy to read this...AND I sincerely wish you and I both have A BETTER DAY tomorrow!
Hey Erin...i too just decided to blog about this. Sorry you are having a crappy day..just know we are here for you and understand your pain and frustration!!! {{huggs}}
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Wow ! Thanks for the responses. The day ended up rather crappy and I actually went home and took a muscle relaxer for my back.
ReplyDeleteDidn't catch your name ... but it seems this happens quite frequently to us women and it sounds like the same story for all of us. Years of pain, the misdiagnosis constantly and then of course the surgery. Leads you to believe there is more to this ......
I will stop by Dorothy and link your blog to mine.
Hi Erin, Belinda here again, that was me yesterday. I'm going to post on Nicola's site later, hope she responds! Turns out I was in same hospital she was and at about the same time and possibly same surgeon! We might have passed each other in the corridors already because it's a small hospital/small world! :)
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