Good luck Tants, hows the recovery in relation to your job? Do you have flexibility with light duty?
Most of what I do now is desk work (program managing, customer technical support). I've been out of hands on R&D work in the lab for a few years. Sitting for long periods isn't terrifically comfortable yet (can only drive to and from PT really as well). Though I have a new pillow which allows my knees to be a few inches lower than my hips (i.e. less than a 90 degree bend) so i'll see how that goes. But I only actually missed 4 days. Surgery on Tuesday back to work from my bed on Monday. The first week back I wasn't particularly effective given I was still on narcotics....
"Luckily" Covid has made working from home the norm and our company has adopted very flexible work hours that essentially just say work 40 h week and/or get your work done. We don't care when you do it. So I've been working 4 x 10 for most of the last year. The SVP of our business group has actually provided guidance to not set meetings on friday to allow for 4x10 weeks.
I haven't been able to play guitar since the surgery which sucks but I'll start getting back to that this week as a I can finally manage to sit long enough to make practice worthwhile.
But it's been worth it so far. The reduction in pain and gain in strength is already better compared to pre-op. I did the surgery because I was in danger of nerve damage and muscle degradation (I had numbness for months down to the my toes and was losing strength in the leg). It's a pretty serious surgery and decision to make. What I had was hip arthroscopy, femuroplasty (i.e. remove growths and spurs on the ball and socket), and Labrum repair (torn cartiledge on the socket portion). Complications are fairly rare but they include things like:
-permanent nerve damage
-breaking of the femural head
-permenent muscle loss
-deep vein thrombosis
-failure to be able to stitch the torn labrum back into place so it gets trimmed instead and this can end up accelerating arthritis and hip replacement
Failure to do the surgery in my case basically meant not being able to do anything because of the pain and numbness. This would have put my in line for hip replacement in the next 18-24 months. Hopefully I can get another 10 years out of it now given I have very little arthritis in it at this stage (most wait too long).
It's sort of why I laugh at the upset over Kucherov. This isn't some surgery to do for fun. You do it because you have to do it at some point in the near future and it does carry career ending risk. It also has this long timeline to recovery even for the most athletic people in the world. This wasn't a quick snip and he's able to play 2 weeks later. It's a quick snip and you aren't fully off crutches for nearly 2 months and not back in the gym doing anything with weights for 5. He wasn't sitting around healthy and truly ready to go for months before the playoffs. The normal timeline of return was when the playoffs began (and matches the recovery timeline Point had when he had the same surgery). Sure Tampa played the LTIR game but it's the same game teams play at the deadline when they have a long term injury that returns for the first round.
