Bryan's journal

[Walter Palmer]

Sounds good. Keep us posted as you are able. I slept in a recliner for about 2 weeks. It was just easier.

[Bryan Dobson]

yeah the tempurpedic mattress seems like a medivel torture device to get out of right now.

[elVarouza]

I hope your recovery goes well. When I had hand surgery a few months ago it could get decently painful but the meds worked pretty well.

[Clay Simczyk]

Glad to hear it went well. Good luck with recovery.

[Bryan Dobson]

slept in recliner last night..much better.

thanks everyone. not much to add.nothing too exciting.. eat, medicate, ice, sleep..repeat.

[paterfamilias]

Hey Bryan, good luck with the recovery. Don't skimp on the meds. Get out ahead of the pain ... you don't want to play catch-up.

[Bryan Dobson]

I weaned off the hydrocodone-Tylenol yesterday. Massive headache...I hate opiates.
I am on Advil only now.
I am working on moving through some range of motion carefully.

[paterfamilias]

That's good. Glad to hear you're progressing. I was on Percocet after my surgery, and I wasn't allowed to switch to Advil/alleve for a week or so because of the bleeding risk. I was begging for the NSAIDs by that point. I needed something I could get aggressive with, without needing to take fistfuls of laxatives just to take a shit, or wondering if my liver was getting wrecked.

[Bryan Dobson]

That's good. Glad to hear you're progressing. I was on Percocet after my surgery, and I wasn't allowed to switch to Advil/alleve for a week or so because of the bleeding risk. I was begging for the NSAIDs by that point. I needed something I could get aggressive with, without needing to take fistfuls of laxatives just to take a shit, or wondering if my liver was getting wrecked.

I just took a mile and a half walk out in the sunshine, feels good to move around.

My incision is healing well, I look like fish bait with monofilament coming out of the skin..

I am taking the sling off a couple of times a day to open up my chest and work on range of motion. Sleeping with out the sling as well, I woke up this morning doing a deep overhead stretch...didn't hurt, just scared myself.

Feeding myself like I am training. I am Going to the dr tomorrow and try to get some sort of work release so I can get out of the house and be productive.

I can't do everything I normally do but I can teach classes and work on implementing some efficiencies in our newest written safety programs.

[Walter Palmer]

Excellent. Continue to keep us updated. Sounds like it is going great.