One Month Post Op Appt!

By: brandy nicole on 4:14 PM

On June 1st, 2015 I had my 1 month post op appointment with Dr. Park. We honestly didn't do a whole lot. He took xrays and we looked at those and thankfully everything looked good. He took my stitches out and basically we talked about how I was feeling. I told him I was still in a pretty good deal of pain despite being able to be a bit more active. By this point I was going grocery shopping with my mother because it was a means of getting exercise (walking) without walking in the heat lol. I also went to a movie with a friend at I believe two weeks post op. It might of even been 13 days post op! But damn it, I REALLLLY wanted to see Pitch Perfect 2, hahahaha.

He told me my pain was likely due to me being active, BUT, he said that was good. He didn't want me just sitting, but he didn't want me overdoing it either. He prescribed more pain meds, and told me to just walk as much as tolerated, keep icing it, and I would be okay. He said to expect pain as I become more active as things are healing. But he liked the direction I was going. He said to continue my no bending/twisting/lifting anything over 5 lbs until my next appointment which is August 4th.

One Month Post Op Incisions (before stitches were removed)

Before surgery x-ray

After Xray :) And no, that is not an artifical disc. It is just a larger interbody spacer than normal because I had no disc there (it dissolved due to the spondylolisthesis crushing it)