Cam at 4 months post op

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Being Mother's Day and kinda doing what I want, in between family

taking me out and cooking for me, I decided to look up Cam's

chronicles of her surgery. I went to the fourth month documentation

to see how I compared. I am just a few weeks shy of 4 months. I would

say I am just abouth there, I do have a bit of sore muscle in the

spine area. I would concur that a hard chair is my bestfriend,

compared to a soft comfy chair. I am also sore in the hip area. I was

down to one tramadol over the past few days but think I will go back

to 2 a day..I think one is not enough. I know we are all different

but I found it fun to compare notes.....also looked ahead to look

forward to sitting in that beach chair and being able to get myself

out of it!!! One can only hope!!!

, Ca so, so glad to hear you are home....that is the best news I

have heard all weekend!!!

Jolyn, They will survive...if you look at any of my old posts, I was

lamenting about the same issues...all here encouraged me that it

would be ok and the family would pull through, they did, with flying

colors I must say!!My husband was not used to being home for more

than 3 weeks straight at a time. He is partners in an importing

company and travels for weeks at a time to CHina, Haiti and the

Philippines...he would need to be home for 2 months straight and cut

his hours back at the office. No, easy feet for him, but it was done.

My family only visited me 2 times. Once after each stage. Actaully I

requested for them NOT to visit me at all, it was too much of a

hassel, coming from PA to Boston, I did not want to break up the kids

routines! My 14 year old was in the midst of her bball season and my

husband pulled all four kids out of school on a friday to travel to

Boston, she still is getting the blame for their big loss against a

rival school....my husband did not know either that you could not

just take kids out of school and not CALL the school. He has never

had to take kids out of school, I always deal with these

things..needless to say schools left messages and sent notes that he

had to deal with when he got home..I kind of got a good laugh out of

that....this will not be something you will deal with since you home

school. Bottom line is I had all those same fears you have. But they

were all correct on this board, it will be ok...it was ok, more than

I had thought it would be,,try not to worry, it all works out..and

even if a few things fall between the cracks..noone is going to

die...just my 2 cents..,PA