Good news, bad news

Good news: I've been released by my physical therapist to only use the cane. I'm off the walker both inside and outside, unless I'm in a busy environment where I feel I need it to keep from being trampled. Bad news: I got on one of those boards where you slide and do leg presses today at physical therapy. The mount/dismount is somewhat tricky, and I wasn't quite ready for it, because I pulled a part of my quadriceps muscle up on the upper part of my right (operant) thigh, and it really hurt. My therapist did massage it, and it helped quite a bit, but I'm limping a bit, and it hurts to stand up. It's almost exactly the spot I hurt on my left leg earlier this month when I stood up from the dinner table. My quads are always weak, but especially now, after surgery, and they're just not cooperating with me, even though we've worked a lot on strengthening both. But this, too, shall pass, I'm sure.

In the meantime, I've already transferred all the basic items I had in my walker bag (things like my handicapped placard, lip balm, house keys, and a small planner) to my smaller sling backpack. Time to put the walker away for now. Yay!

Slight setback

I went to get up last night and of all things pulled a muscle in my left (non-operant) thigh, which is fairly painful. It's making it more difficult to walk independently from the walker or cane. The pain on both sides has been about equal, a 4 at the most, and that's during certain stressful movements. I've only been taking one 8-hour Tylenol for pain for the  last 24 hours. I haven't taken any opioids all,l since I had the surgery. That Journavx did really help, but I haven't needed it, either, and it's meant for short-term use. So it's not super painful, but I'm resting the muscle so when I go out it'll be okay. I don't want to fall due to it being weak. Next appointment is Wednesday, so hopefully it will recover by then.