@SatNavSaysStraightOn , how's the recuperation going? We haven't had any updates from you for a while.
I see my consultant again tomorrow for the 6 week post op review. Sadly we have had to book the private ambulance again which gives an idea of my 'progress'.
I still can't sit up for longer than 5-10 minutes at a time, walking is very slow and only with crutches. Strava says I manage 400m but the GPS trace is all over the place and if you map it out it is in reality only 300m which takes me around 20-25 minutes to do. I'm still doing that twice a day every day.
I'm still falling periodically if I don't use the crutches in the house. I can't turn around at all without holding onto something but using the crutches in the house is really difficult and I don't have the confidence to manage stairs alone yet.
The good news is that the pins and needles only happen when I sit for too long or lie in a bad position. I have the first signs of some strength returning to the right leg but there is no way of knowing how much will return and at the moment it is looking like a very long road for recovery. That is part of the paralysis side of life. It's a fingers crossed. I'm also off the morphine during the day now and only taking coding and paracetamol plus the pregabalin during the day.
The bad news is that I am getting pain in both sides of the spine and sciatic nerves when sitting for more than 5 minutes or walking for 10 minutes (I try to ignore it on my walks, turning around when it starts to hurt rather than before.)
We will see what my consultant says tomorrow and tbh i if she recommends that I get the vertebrae fused I probably will simply because I think I will recovery better now than say in 10 years time and hopefully it will deal with the problems relating to sitting and standing for any length of time.
25 hours to wait!
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