@ riflemanz64

I got the three staples out yesterday. One of the staples was biting me. A towel might have caught on it when I was patting it dry and almost dropped the cloth.. not sure. Doc said the incision site looks good.. just a little irritated from one of the staples. A little antibiotic ointment .. the kind with pain relief in it even better.. for a few days. I am still restricted on driving, riding long distance, lifting anything heavier than a gallon of milk and not a lot of bending.. be careful how I move.. no twisting. He said the bone should have a good start on being fused. I don't have the greatest bones.. so may take longer to completely fuse. .. around 6 months. I go for a checkup in a month.

I am getting in and out of chairs better. I am walking better. I hurt if I try to walk too fast. The sight is not throbbing and having all sorts of different pains as it did. No groin pain. The surgery area is mostly just sore. I put it at a 2 before staples taken out.. a few minutes later I would have put it at 3 or maybe 4. It was like stinging bees for a few minutes.

I am still doing a moist heating pad a couple of times a day. I can tell I am still a little swollen. The visible bruising is gone from the surgery. I bruise easily.

I was fully awake and had no grogginess afterward. I will have to ask if they did stick something in the IV or if they just injected something in the surgery site. I did feel pain at the grafting part and I let them know and it was taken care of immediately. It was really strange hearing a hammer beat the bone graft in place. I am sure it sounded louder to me than anyone else in the room. I was at the surgery center less than two hours. It would have been less time, but the arm to the fluoroscope broke during the surgery and they had to bring in another machine. I had to wait for the antibiotic bag to finish too. This was done at a pain clinic… the doctor is an anesthesiologist. Elsewhere they may do the surgery differently.

I had to do something to quell the SI joint pain. I know a risk that something else may start hurting.. the other SI joint or even higher up in my back.

I hope your wife finds relief for her pain.
ZeeGee