What a weekend

So I have not taken any pain medicine in a quite a few days which is awesome. Working out at the gym and pushing myself within limits basing my effort off of pain. Lost a little weight. I go to see the personal trainer for measurements, weight lost, bmi check and such tomorrow and to learn a couple new things there. Excited to see if anything has changed though it has only been about 2 weeks, I think, so not 50 lbs but anything is a great victory for me! :)

So this weekend has been rough. A lot of personal issues within my family caused a lot of stress. I am also sick. Added to that my store also went through a beating. There was a parade/ water land festival nearby and that caused us to be extremely busy the entire weekend. Because of family stress I was not able to sleep much and I worked 30 hours of the last 48. I can truly say that my body let me know about halfway through and it has not stopped. SI joint is really acting up and not relieved with medicine. Did some research on you tube looking for stretches to ease the pain. If anyone is experiencing any pain that can be relieved with stretches I think maybe a doctor may be the best bet but I was desperate for relief and tried random things which helped a little. My entire hip is sore front to back. All that time on my feet and lack of sleep is not good. I am wondering how life will be when I am post-surgery and released back to work. I fear I may have to take REALLY good care to not over do anything. I sometimes have trouble letting things go and taking it easy when it comes to work. I really need to start working on this! lol

While I was searching on you tube for random things involving SI and PAO I came across some videos with actual live surgeries. I DO NOT SUGGEST WATCHING THESE!!! I was watching one about this woman who was about to go in for the surgery and kind of giving a story about her and what she was facing then the video went into tools and then I saw about 1 second of something I did not want to see. I do not want to know whats going to happen before they do it. Just a basic where the cut will be type thing  is enough!! YIKES. I saw a link for a video of an arthrogram mri of the hip and wanted to watch it since I am having one done on Aug 16th, but after my un-wanted glimpse of the video clip before, I decided I did not want to see anything that would make getting the procedure done any more difficult to handle. What was I thinking?  I did however see one, which I will post here. A man is talking about healing after surgery. Pretty brief, but to hear aloud helped me. Even though I have read all of it, still, hearing it is good. Helps to cement the knowledge and better prepare. So if you are interested the link is in the links section