Wow. Thanks for all of the supportive comments. Reading the comments from others have that had a similar injury, and made it through the reovery, really upped the spirits. Its easy to feel disconnected when your communication to the nurses is limited to "dolor" (pain) and "peepee". My teammates are awesome. Beyond all the time they spent visiting and talking to me, they brought me real food - pizza, sandwiches, coffee, croissants. My blackberry saved my sanity as I waited for surgery and the 6 hour post-surgery before eating. The hospital staff was genuinely interested in cycling and the team.
I left the hospital yesterday morning. A list of prescriptions to pick up and a piece of paper, and I was out of there, "adios." I 'm at Dan Martin's place now while I get my feet back under me. He's on the ground level and right in town, so I have everything I need here. Thanks Dan! The stairs to my place would be a little precarious by myself. My roomate, Timmy, just left this morning for Pais Vasco.
Right now, I'm parked in front of the TV watching the Maylasia F1 race, then Flanders is on later.
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Holy Crap Blake! Get Well and Hope your back in the saddle real soon.
They really do have all the good programming in Europe
Hi Blake:
Hope your recovery is coming along
well.
Doza
Hi Blake,
I was wondering if you could post any info on your recovery, as I broke my hip cycling exactly one week before you did.
I would assume that you are getting more advice on recovery than I am, so any advice that you could give to me would be awesome.
Thanks
Liz
Liz, I'm sorry it took a while to get back to you. Hopefully you're progressing along well! I hope you're range of motion is coming back. If there was anything that I noticed was weak or a muscle wasn't firing, I focused on it. Just simple isometrics were enough for me. At first I couldn't use my hip flexor at all to lift my leg. As I worked on it, I eventually could move it, but it was painful because I was activating so many of the wrong muscles. Finally things started to click and its basically pain free movement now. I have a lot of strengthening to work on, but at least everything is even. Nothing complicated. The most effective have just been simple glute bridges, squats, and trainer time. Good luck!
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