Day 1 - Baby Steps

First full day of recovery from my surgery at the hospital. My right quad is swollen and tight from the surgery. I spend most of the morning in bed watching tv. My orthopedic surgeon comes by later and checks me out. He says the surgery went fine and he put in a titanium rod and screw and would show me later. He says I am good enough to go home. I think to myself, "Is he crazy or what? I just had surgery yesterday and I can't walk."

Two persons from the Rehab department come by later and try to get me to walk using the walker. Heavily medicated, I manage to get out of the bed and up, but boy is hard to walk. I can't put any pressure on my right leg and hip at all. They put a belt around me to catch me if I fall. Using the walker I get up and and sit down in a chair about three feet away from my hospital bed. I feel like a baby trying to learn to walk again.