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@fiesty76 Thank you fiesty76 I was hurting this morning across my low back L-4 and L5, wear I had the nerve being pinch and the surgeon had to do a lot of work to get the nerves unpinched. Remember my surgery was 9 hours. Yes, walking is what they want me to do, but I wonder if I went too far yesterday. I did 3 blocks. I'm going to see how I feel today and may just do 2 blocks. But my pain pills are taking some of the pain away.
I go to Mayo tomorrow and have my post-op visit with the surgeon.
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Hi @lilypaws, I was thinking about you and wondered how your post-op visit went. I hope your recovery is going well.
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@lilypaws, Hi, Jeanie, Maybe you can tell the doc at your appointment about the 3 blocks and how you felt afterwards and can be given more specific guidelines about how long or far to walk in starting that again? I'm learning to listen more closely to what my "body is telling me" now with some efforts. If you walked 2 instead of 3 blocks today, can you feel a difference once home again? Hope you let us know how the post-op visit goes...do you have any questions ready to take with you to ask? I write mine down beforehand because otherwise I am a bit anxious and tend to forget what to ask.