| Jun. 30th, 2009 @ 09:32 am 4 years after PAO |
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That's what my scar looks like after 4 years. It's certainly not pretty, and it does show both above and below my swimsuit bottoms. I also have some nerve damage that appears to be permanent. It feels like a slightly ticklish, sensitive spot running across the top of my thigh. It has diminished significantly with time, and I hardly notice it now.
But I can run and jog and jump and chase after my little boy, who is now almost two. He runs and skips everywhere and speaks in complete sentences. I'm so glad I had the surgery when I did, because being off my feet now would be tough.
Before surgery, I weighed 150 lb. I had trouble going up stairs, and my hip throbbed when I stood for any length of time. When the surgeons opened me up, they found a ganglion cyst as well as the early osteoarthritis we already knew about. Six months after surgery, I weighed 165 lb. That was my heaviest point. I wasn't working the physical therapy the way I needed to and still had some issues with weakness.
Today, I weigh about 118 lb. I can chase around my son, jog around the neighborhood with my dog, and run up the stairs. At 31, I feel good. |
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