by Broz » Fri Apr 03, 2015 10:17 pm
Released from PT yesterday. Still have a ways to strengthen it. I haven't been on the bike yet but on Vespa this week. I have been cautioned by the PT to not over do it because I could end up causing swelling. She gave me an extensive list of exercises to do every other day. It's weird how things turned the corner pretty quickly. Don't know if I told you but I I had an infection at the wound site. That's probably why it was so swollen and painful. The doc was surprised by swelling but it was the PT that said "this is infected" and sure enough next day it popped open and oozed on second day of therapy. So nurse called in some antibiotics. She said we are going to put you on them for a week but finish the bottle. Well turns out they gave me 20 day supply. After 1 week I had a alergic reaction to the meds Bactrim I think, it's a sulfa meds and I was itching like a MF'er And had red bumps. Then I had to get on some prednisone and something like a "super type of Benedryl". Which did not help me and I itched for about a week. That was pretty fucking miserable and I'm glad that's behind me.