[Dog Gone]

I'm sure they know what they're doing, but it's got to be tough to sit up, much less get out of bed. To put it bluntly, it hurts like hell. On top of that, your knees feel wobbly and you've noticed that hospital food apparently comes from Hell's Cafeteria, Inc.

If the TexasCowboy said it was tough, he means it.

[LadyX]

Reminds me of 1974 when my husband had his second spinal (neuro-not ortho) surgery. The first was in 1966 at the Naval Hospital in Charleston for 3 ruptured discs, and he was active and exercised and able to return to work; and then go to Southeast Asia and combat.

In civilian life, he became a retail store manager, not supposed to lift heavy things - but a load of fertilizer came in and no one else to offload it - yep - ruptured one of the 3 again.

The surgeon in Stuart, Florida, though, had been in the military and was a real expert - found the first surgery had been badly botched, removing all kinds of scar tissue - but after Recovery, Bernie was placed in a room with an elderly gentleman who wasn't one -- senile, and kept leaping around the room hitting things!
He was so afraid the fellow would hit HIM, he demanded he be moved to another room, and in the a.m. when the physical therapist came to get him up, he did it on his own - came home on the 3rd day, and was back at work in 5 days!

He was motivated, preserving his best possible condition and his job!