Post op!

Post op day today. Dr. Sampson was pleased with my progress thus far. I have to say, I am also. He went through all my pics and explained that he removed a lot of adhesions. There was also a little bone regeneration. He had to do a tiny big of microfracturing for my cartilage, there was a little degeneration and erosion; he also anchored some of it back in. He also tightened my hip capsule up some. I could tell he did that in a couple of the pics. One of the initial pictures you can see them dislocate my hip - which he said it came out pretty easily. The suction wasn't that great... Then near the end of the picture series you can see that he sutured it up and it doesn't appear out of the socket.

All in all, I feel that I'm doing great. He said I was right where I should be in terms of range of motion. He's confident that he should have taken care of my source of pain. No physical therapy right now. He doesn't want to push my range of motion too hard. He said that doing the bicycle and taking care of the kids is more than enough for rehab...and I have to agree! Luckily I've had help from my mom for things around the house. I don't know what I'd do without her! Regardless - this is my final surgery. I can't do it again. So fingers crossed it continues to just get better and better and better!

One Week Post-Op

Here we are one week later... Well. A week and a day. But who's counting?? ;) So far, so good. I can't complain too much. I've been riding on the stationary cycle since post-op day 1. I'm up to 30 minutes. I've been walking around without my crutches, and have been for several days. My post-op pain has pretty much been non-existent. I've been taking the toradol and the ibuprofen per Dr. Sampson's post-op protocol, but I haven't had to take any REAL pain meds (narcotics) since post-op day 1!

Yesterday I got my sutures out, everything looks pretty good. Then I even went and did some errands with my mom, but without the kids. It was a lot of time out and about and it wasn't really that bad! Dr. Sampson told me three weeks until I'm ready to care for the kids by myself, and I'm thinking it will be more like two weeks. Hubby and Mom have been here with me the past week, and he took off a couple days this week. When he is back to work on Thursday of next week, I think I'll be fine.

Other than that it's been pretty uneventful -- which is a good thing!

Third time's the charm??

Sitting in bed, had surgery with Dr. Sampson this morning. Finally bit the bullet and decided to go for arthroscopy #3. But first... let's do some updating!

I had a successful delivery of my sweet baby girl, Buggie. No, that isn't her name but for now I'm going to call her that. She came in October of 2012. It wasn't easy, with that big head of hers and Ben nearly 9lbs! But I survived.

I was lucky enough to stay home with her for almost 9 months! During that time, Dr. Sampson brought me in and we did an injection; unfortunately it brought no relief.

I went back to work and quickly realized that being pregnant had done a number on my hip. I couldn't handle the constant up and down and standing that my job required. They worked with me for a while, trying different modifications. I loved where I worked, but it made me sad that I couldn't come home and play with my baby girl!

I kept at it for another year, but it was taking its toll and my manager noticed. She graciously offered me another position that involved more sitting. After time and consideration, I decided it would be best for me. Three months after that, on baby girl's second birthday I discovered I was pregnant (oops!)...

Pregnancy seemed better this time, and I credit that much to the fact that I wasn't on my feet as much. I left work slightly early on maternity leave again mostly because we planned to induce early again due to the fact that baby girl was so big. I was having some preterm labor issues, but those were manageable.

Well, little man decided that he would just come early. He came fast and furious three weeks early. We barely made it to the hospital, and I certainly didn't have time to get an epidural. That was fun.

During Little Man's glorious entry into the world, my husband felt and heard a big pop from my hip! My doctor heard it, but she thought it was from Little Man coming so quickly. I didn't notice it, but I think that's because my mind was on other things... after delivery I noticed. In fact, my hip hurt more than anywhere else.

Since then things have been pretty low-key. I know that if I'm up and down too much, walk too much, or just over use my hip I get that shooting feeling. I've been avoiding all those things and have been in relatively low pain. I did reluctantly decide that one last surgery would be warranted before going back to work.

So here we are.

I'm feeling good. Not needing a ton of pain killers. The ice machine is a God-send. Only time will tell how successful this last surgery has been, and I'll be patiently (or not) waiting!