Postby ThailandBound » Sun Mar 05, 2023 8:55 am
“One day at a time” (actually, at this point “moment by moment”) is how you will experience life for awhile. I remember being precisely at the point you are now….you feel kind of trapped by your body. It, and not you, dictate your moment by moment, day by day experience. I recall reading the accounts of guys just a few weeks further along, talking about pain and swelling and bruising being gone….cycling…etc. To be where they were in my earliest days seemed an eternity away.
And now, it feels almost suddenly, im 2 months post op. Pain free. (except for the expected discomfort of maximum daily cycling, which is a privilege). Working normally with no discomfort. Hitting the gym daily. Whew!
You’ll get there brother! Hope it wasn’t to bad on your flight. I wonder why the nerve block hasn’t been more effective? I was sore on the flight home, and hated feeling so delicate and self conscious, but was doable. But man, getting home, laying down, icing….was such a relief that day.
You’ve passed a few milestones already. The surgery is history. The flight home is history. You’re marching forward!
Active, athletic 63 years old. Sexually, still 33 in my mind and spirit. Pills and injections all worked, until they didn’t. Diagnosed with veinous leakage in 2022. Coloplast Titan. 22 CM. No RTE. Peno-scrotal. Implanted 1/4/23. Dr. Clavell.