Week 7

Wow, almost 2 months post here!  Okay, that's not really all that exciting.  I was actually doing really, really well the beginning of this week.  I was a rockstar!  There were high fives in PT when my glute was firing when it was supposed to.  Comments were made when I walked around there and wasn't limping like an idiot.  It was good!

I got a bit too confident and walked way too much yesterday.  It felt good, crazy good, to be outside and breathing the fresh, crisp Colorado air.  I felt great walking, as well.  I was striding out decently and nothing was hurting (okay, my stupid left arch is flared up again--this thing hurt before my surgery but wasn't an issue when I wasn't able to walk/run--I was hoping whatever it was would be gone--wrong).  I felt wonderful that evening, as well.  No real soreness that I could pinpoint.  Around 3AM this morning, my hip woke me up and let me know it was not at all happy with me.  Ugh.  Ouch.  Boo.  Crap.  Damn.

So, today I can barely lift my left leg and when I do it kills me.  PT was able to loosen it up quite a bit and I felt okay when I left there but the long drive home made everything tighten back up.  I'm hoping by tomorrow stuff will calm back down and I can get back on track.  I was hoping to be able to add in resisted biking by the end of the week, that's out the window now.  I need to get pain free by next Monday so I can finally get cleared for that!

Big Horn Sheep!  We saw a ton of them this past weekend.
They are way bigger than I would have guessed and very cool looking creatures.