It has been quite some time since I’ve provided an update on my FAI-y hips. Has it been 4 or 5 years since my first surgery? How about my last surgery? Which side was it that was done twice? Good thing I have this blog to look back on because I can literally google my…
FAI Hip Surgery Recovery
From Three Hip Scopes to Stoke!
When I first asked my hip surgeon if I would ever run again he said, “Yes!” to which I of course was thrilled to hear. And then he followed with a “but it’s not like you’ll ever be able to run the Wasatch 100.” Well turns out I won’t be able to run the Wasatch…
FAI Surgery ONE YEAR Recovery Update: Into Unknown Territory!
“Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.”…
FAI Surgery Week 20 Or So Update
Okay, so I have officially lost track of time and all will to blog about my FAI surgery recovery because I am… well, pretty darned recovered! The last few weeks have been AMAZING. I did my first 10-mile run and spent four days hiking through a little known canyon in southern Utah for a grand…
FAI Surgery Recovery Week 18 Update
“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” ~Bill Watterson I have officially lost track of time and in the FAI recovery world that is a good thing meaning I am no longer counting the days until I can run and ski again since I have been busy doing just that –…
FAI Surgery Recovery Week 11 & 12: Nordic Ski Stoke
If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country. ~Author Unknown I am starting to lose track of what week of recovery I am in, which is a good thing meaning I am more concerned with living than obsessing and catastrophizing every little hip tweak, pop, or twinge. My physical therapist…
FAI Surgery Recovery Week 10: Third Time is the Charm?
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. ~Confucius On the homestretch, ten weeks out from hip surgery number THREE and stoked as can be! I don’t know if it is because…
FAI Recovery Week 9: Iron People
“Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?” ~Mary Oliver I work with sick people, very, very sick people. A place where treatment success is measured in months rather than years…
FAI Surgery Recovery: The First 6 Weeks!
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” ~Haruki Murakami Let’s just say that I am happy to have the first six weeks behind me. At the six week point I have successfully ditched the crutches and have essentially zero pain in the hip although I have some tightness in the hip flexor and an achy SI…
FAI Surgery Recovery Week 6: Goodbye Crutches, Hello SI Joint
“I often lose motivation, but it’s something I accept as normal.” ~Bill Rodgers Six weeks down from FAI hip surgery number two – hallelujah. Okay so after my first FAI surgery, I started weaning off the crutches after five weeks and this time they had me start weaning at four weeks, which felt way too…