FAI (Femoro-acetabular Impingement) & Karate

Day 2: The pain got worse today, I think.  I put the ice-pad back on and attached myself to a slow exercise machine they had given me at the hospital.  At the post-op Dr visit, they told me the good news; I only need to be on crutches for TWO WEEKS, because there was no labial tear (they had thought the surgery might be a little more involved than it turned out to be).  I am strapping myself back into the ice-pad and exercise machine to use in my sleep. Let’s hope I get more sleep tonight than I did last night…

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Surgery took less than 2 hours this afternoon. The staff at Stanford Hospital were very professional. The surgery time was delayed slightly and it took me longer than I had expected to recover enough to leave the hospital. And when I did I was in absolutely no shape to go watch the karate seminar I had organized to take place that evening 30 minutes away. I did call the instructor and the person hosting him to let them know that I was still in the hospital while they were getting ready to begin. They were understanding. I was in quite a bit of pain but, due primarily to all the medication I was on, what bothered me most was the nausea. I threw up. It was probably just the 6th time I had thrown up in the past 25 years. I am going to bed with a special ice-pad wrapped around my hip & leg.

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