Observations/tips two days ish after LL surgery

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I'd strongly recommend one thing:

do not immediately open taxi doors to exit taxis in Athens Greece

-> look left and right carefully through the window, lots of little bikers zipping around in these narrow streets, don't know when they'll show up and run into your suddenly opened door

in general, Athenes has lots of narrow roads with lots of parked cars obstructing the view

-> can just wait for the nurse (if he/she is with you) to open the taxi door at an appropriate time

For moving in the taxi, I'd suggest always sliding back first then sliding forward at gentle angles. Much easier than rotating your whole body 90 degrees immediately (bad, greater chance of accidental clicks)

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Thinking about how to do the IT band stretches and also the adductor stretches w/ strap without accidental clicks

I'm assuming if I just keep my leg very straight there should be no problems w/ accidental clicks? not sure

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Today was the best day yet, the walking, clicking, etc all went well

morale is high

the quad stretches during physical therapy are the most painful part of this at the moment

I'm also trying to figure out my stretching routine and try to identify mistakes

Mostly focused on quad, hip flexor, and hamstring stretches still

Which muscles are most related to duck ass? Hip flexors? What stretches do you like for them?

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Quote from: SpeedDialer on September 22, 2022, 07:25:45 PMToday was the best day yet, the walking, clicking, etc all went well

morale is high

the quad stretches during physical therapy are the most painful part of this at the moment

I'm also trying to figure out my stretching routine and try to identify mistakes

Mostly focused on quad, hip flexor, and hamstring stretches still

Which muscles are most related to duck ass? Hip flexors? What stretches do you like for them?

Congratz Speedy 👍🏼💪🏼
It must be glutes for duck ass 😂

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When you were in the hospital did you have a private room or were you sharing with someone?

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Quote from: thankscience on September 23, 2022, 12:55:26 PMWhen you were in the hospital did you have a private room or were you sharing with someone?

private

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The burger meal for 6.50 euros at montaza hotel is pretty good, has good sauce, tomato, lettuce, and a big plate of fries, its decently filling and tasty for 6.5 euros

the cheese pizza is inexpensive but the time I had it didn't have much tomato sauce and was a bit hard so I think I might stick to burgers the times I want to get a full lunch/dinner for less than 7 euros

But most days, I don't really feel I need that much more to eat after the hotel's breakfast buffet

I haven't lengthened much, don't have any duck ass yet, but am a bit afraid of it after seeing a patient with duck ass. I don't think glutes are really the problem, maybe hip flexors more of the problem

So right now I'm working on some hip flexors stretches off the edge of the bed (butt on edge of bed, back lying down on bed, one leg hanging off, one leg tucked to knee)

During physical therapy, the biggest amount of pain is from quad stretches, followed by hamstrings, then hip flexors that the physical therapist does on me. If I can work on these stretches alot at home, I think I can improve my quality of life alot and have alot less pain each week

For clicking, I've found so far:
- closing my eyes, listening to relaxing music, lean the upper body in the direction the arm goes, try to get close to almost sleeping helps, use some pillows even for the upper body to get comfortable,  just let the gravity of one arm arm push down on your knee do the work for the clicks and just go completely limp, I didn't have any pain today doing clicks this morning

Its not as time efficient as using both arms to simultaneously move the leg to click, I think ozboy39 and veterans do that and their method is alot faster though

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Glad to hear you're getting the hang of clicking (albeit slowly). How many days after surgery did you start clicking?

Also, re the food - have you only been eating hotel food this whole time? 

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Quote from: thankscience on September 24, 2022, 03:18:42 PMGlad to hear you're getting the hang of clicking (albeit slowly). How many days after surgery did you start clicking?

Also, re the food - have you only been eating hotel food this whole time? 

The day after surgery, Dr. Giotikas walked to my bed, and did a few clicks on me and then in the days following, the nurses will do small number of clicks on you teaching you how to do them

I think maybe a few days later we started doing the 15 clicks per day in earnest

The hotel food has the free breakfast buffet + can pay for lunch or dinner. Depending on what you get, it is not expensive and there's enough variety. I've only eaten their hotel food, not sure if I'll branch out. Probably I'm going to keep trying their dishes. There is a small fridge in the room, its on the floor though, a bit hard to reach

Probably my biggest concern is the breakfast buffet only has tomatoes and cucumbers for vegetables. I'll probably see what other veggies they have in the lunch/dinner and then decide if I want to order some other vegetables by grocery delivery

Before the surgery when I could walk, I did eat some food from a local supermarket ("economy supermarket") that is about the size of a 7/11

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Has your appetite returned back to normal yet would you say?

Also, just curious if you chose to stay in the handicap room (with 1 guest) included, the double room, or double for single use?

Still tossing up my options as to what's realistic and best. Also considering Novotel if it ends up being cheaper when taking into consideration travel costs.