Hip update

So I haven't blogged in more than a week!, but I have been busy. My hip surgery went well last Wednesday and I've been home from the hospital a week from tomorrow. I can now get up and down stairs, take a shower, get the mail, and generally be pretty happy. I can't put on my own pants, or go up and down stairs without someone watching me, or take care of Stephen on my own right now, but those things will slowly begin to change. I'm off of narcotics during the day which feels so good, as the narcotics were making me dizzy and loopy. Stephen I think had a hard time adjusting to the fact that mommy couldn't pick him up unless she is sitting down, but he is preferring daddy to mommy at most points too right now, so I guess that helps in this recovery period. I have my ups and downs emotionally, but for the most part I feel like Benjamin Button (although I haven't seen the movie) I feel younger every day. I think last week in the hospital I felt about oh 85 years old, and today I probably feel about 65. It is really emotionally difficult for me to be dependent on people for putting on my pants and taking care of my kid, and I do have crying spells, but am trying to think of the long run where I know I will be better. The pain from the surgery is different than the pain before the surgery. The pain now is more muscular in nature, more like I worked out too much or something. The pain before was more from the bone itself. Sean, my mother, and my father have been with me since last Tuesday and I don't know what I would have done without all their support here. I'm not sure I can adequately thank them for being with me during this. I think my motivation to do things on my own makes me do my exercises and try to get to the point of being normal. Normality is my goal. On the good side, I think my posture is getting a lot better.