Follow Up: The journey to getting this hip diagnosed correctly was a rough one, it has taught me to not blindly trust any medical professional (really, run on a femoral neck stress reaction and severe undiagnosed hip pain as much as possible since *you* don't see anything wrong on the films??? I guess he thought I was just making everything up.). I had my 3 month follow-up with Dr. White in Denver on Wednesday. My first meeting with him, I was certainly guarded and nervous (he totally understood, he saw what I dealt with and says he sees it often with patients). For several reasons, I was much more relaxed this visit. Again, it's a very different experience than Dr. Larson's office (LOVE LOVE LOVE the entire staff there, so much!!!!), but it's all good. I had yet another set of x-rays, I think I've probably had 50 x-rays this year...(and a cat scan and an injection under fluoroscopy and 4 MRI's!), sorry body. Anyway, he said the x-rays looked good with the femur healed nicely, my range of motion was great and to keep on keeping on with the Alter-G! If things keeping going okay, I don't need to be back until the 6 month mark where I should get turned loose to get training for real again. He was really happy with the progress!
Game Changer: Alter-G. Again, access to this machine has totally made the rehab process better! It's also helps that everyone in that office is so kind and positive, it's just a great place to go to! Happy dance :)
Stranger Danger: The one thing I didn't need was a new person tossed into the mix. Mentally I'm not okay with this, maybe it's not fair but it's where I am right now in this process. I showed up to PT expecting to see my PT and was handed off to the new person. I have already been going back and forth between two PTs there, which I find a bit challenging. There is a lot of mixed feedback (on what should be sore what shouldn't/what exercise is great but then hearing it's bad for the joint), minor stuff to them I'm sure, but a huge deal to me since I need to figure which one to trust fully. This is my body, my hip, my sport, my future we are dealing with. I don't want to chance anything, I'm done with that game after the summer of the missed diagnosis and really bad advice.
A third person, one who hasn't seen me through the ups and downs of the rehab, just didn't thrill me. A couple of new things got added in, I was a bit worried about one exercise setting of my back and mentioned it. It felt okay during but, damn if I wasn't right, I'm all jacked up today. This morning, I feel ready to burst into tears from frustration from being put into this situation. It doesn't help that I only slept an hour or so last night since I was so uncomfortable. Ugh. Not a happy camper. My back has been GREAT since the surgery, the best it has felt in the past 8 years and something I haven't even had think about. Arg.
Hopefully everything loosens up by this afternoon, I get some rest and feel bad about being so crabby about this, but this morning I'm still sticking with the Stranger Danger theory :)
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Same thing with me - kept getting passed off to a different PT and something new/different each time or told to do or not to do something. I didn't like it so I called and talked with the 'head guy'. He really understood (or paid lip service to understanding) but after that I got the same PT unless she was off sick and then I had a 'regular' substitute'. Talk to them. It really IS your body and your recovery and you have to communicate - esp since you are 'bouncing' between places and doctors due to logistics of your move.
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