Slow and Steady Progress

[catlover]

Hi Wayne,
Nice to hear that you still notice improvement!  It helps me a lot to read about that activity helps that much. I'm 14 days post-op and my walks are not very comfortable these days. Not as they used to be - they are more like a struggle against dizziness and trees and other things are bouncing around, but I'm born stubborn so I keep on walking and I also try to do my balance exercises. They are not very nice either!    Hopefully, I will enjoy the walks as I did before surgery in time.

All the best to you,

Helene

[wcrimi]

Helene,

Congratulations on being post op. 

I feel confident based on my experience that your walks and other activities will improve with time.  It won't be steady. There will be peak days, followed by a decline, followed by a new peak etc....  Sometimes you don't even notice the improvement until one day you'll look around and say to yourself, "I'm not as dizzy as I used to be. I'm seeing better etc..."

Hang in there!

Feel free to contact me privately if you want to discuss your progress etc...

Wayne

[wendysig]

Hi Wayne -

All great news -- it's surprising how sometimes improvements just seem to suddenly happen.  I suspect we experience slow improvement and don't notice it until we do something really challenging -- then you have the WOW experience.

Wishing you continued good healing,
Wendy

[kawman600]

its great to hear that it does improve -as i am 6 weeks post surgery and have been very frustrated with the progress,at times wondering if i will ever improve-so its good to read that it just takes time-thanks

[wcrimi]

Wendy,

Good to hear from you again. I hope all is well with you.  I actually just had a bit of more challenging week, but I am looking forward to my next peak! 

kawman600,

Congratulations on being post-op. I remember 6 weeks well. I promise you it will get better than that, but you are going to have to be very patient. The improvement does not come rapidly or even steadily.  I you are like me, you will have good days and bad days but the good ones will slowly get better and the bad ones won't be quite as bad. 

[wcrimi]

I'm a little over 8 months into my recovery now.  I had a bit of a stressful week and wasn't feeling that well (a friend passed away, and another lost her mother).  Yesterday however, I was invited to a beach party for a friend that just turned 50 years old. I had a great time and was feeling so good, I decided to have a few drinks for the first time since surgery.    I wasn't sure how it was going to impact my wonky head so I've been avoiding it. But yesterday just seemed "right" to test that out.   Happy to report I handled it well (quite well in fact). All in all, I would say I'm reaching a new peak in my recovery this weekend. This is closest I've felt to being "myself" since surgery. I'm still a little wobby at times (especially when I turn my head while in motion) and I'm still a bit "wonky" whenever I'm walking/jogging, but it's less severe on most days.  Unfortunately, a bad day or few days still get mixed in here or there and I get a little scared and frustrated, but I would say I am STILL IN A LONG TERM IMPROVING MODE.  So those of you fresher than 8 months or similar to me, you can  continue improving this far out, but slowly.