Three Weeks Today

Today, I feel great! Yesterday, not so good. Saturday, okay. Friday, awful.

I wish there was some way to make sure this long recovery had uniform days of feeling good. I'm trying to figure out if it *is* the Percocet that is making me feel so sleepy and low, yet I still need it for the pain, like I had last night. I desperately wanted to watch "Desperate Housewives" last night, but had to go lay in bed earlier than planned after taking a Percocet. I felt better, fell asleep and woke at 3:30 AM to take another Percocet. This morning I feel great. I'm trying to not take as many pain meds, but it's only three weeks today that I had my surgery, and I know the Percocet will be with me for at least a few more weeks, so I have to get used to it.

Thankfully, I have absolutely no pain at all in my legs anymore from the disk problems at L3-L4. I don't have very much incision pain or post-surgical pain there, but when I do, I do need meds for it, plus I can't even take anything less than an opiate because I'm fusing. Curiously, I keep getting a fierce pain right on a palm-sized area of my right outer hip every once in a while when I'm laying down (but not on that side.) The only thing I can think of that it could be is residual pain from the bad disks. My lower back feels great, where the larger screw was put in to replace the earlier loose one. I now know the pain I used to have back there was from that darned loose screw!