WilliamJE
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Last Saturday marked one month since I had surgery. I'm feeling great for the most part. My mobility has increased to the point, I walked 3/4 of my usual walk at the mall. Outdoor walks are about 1/2 length. Florida heat and humidity are a big drain on my stamina.
I can get up and down from furniture now that days before I still needed the wife's assistance. Pain from my incision is still felt but decreasing. I've taken exactly one pain med since last Wednesday.
My right hand is coming around. I still have numbness but mostly confined to the fingertips of my thumb, index, middle fingers and the central area of the palm of my hand. This morning I woke up and discovered I could make a fist for the first time since surgery. Only yesterday I was showing the wife the inability of my right index finger to touch my palm.
The squeezing of the rubber ball, or my typing about 30 pages over four days for some of my online stories I write may have helped. Or was it those missay lifts I began Saturday? What's a missay lift you ask? She's our scrawny one-year-old cat. As a joke, I began lifting her the other day with my right hand. Missay didn't seem to mind too much.
Today I began work but light duties. Blogging isn't strenuous, and working at home helps. I see the cardiologist on Wednesday for the first time since leaving the hosp.
Missay is the waray word for cat. Waray is the Filipino dialect my wife Leonita speaks.
Update- Should have included saying while my right index finger can touch my palm, it is still stiff and swollen. Progress has been made, but its not 100% .
I can get up and down from furniture now that days before I still needed the wife's assistance. Pain from my incision is still felt but decreasing. I've taken exactly one pain med since last Wednesday.
My right hand is coming around. I still have numbness but mostly confined to the fingertips of my thumb, index, middle fingers and the central area of the palm of my hand. This morning I woke up and discovered I could make a fist for the first time since surgery. Only yesterday I was showing the wife the inability of my right index finger to touch my palm.
The squeezing of the rubber ball, or my typing about 30 pages over four days for some of my online stories I write may have helped. Or was it those missay lifts I began Saturday? What's a missay lift you ask? She's our scrawny one-year-old cat. As a joke, I began lifting her the other day with my right hand. Missay didn't seem to mind too much.
Today I began work but light duties. Blogging isn't strenuous, and working at home helps. I see the cardiologist on Wednesday for the first time since leaving the hosp.
Missay is the waray word for cat. Waray is the Filipino dialect my wife Leonita speaks.
Update- Should have included saying while my right index finger can touch my palm, it is still stiff and swollen. Progress has been made, but its not 100% .
