Just had my surgery, and before I start, I'd like to prefice this post with a huge shoutout to InFullStryde and Movie who have been a tremendous inspiration and help with their Dr. Mahboubian diaries. Extremely comforting reading and watching their experiences with this amazing doctor, and it made choosing him that much easier. I'd love to meet/talk one of these days!
Also obviously all the LL veterans, it feels like I've read every diary on here lol! I thank you for your amazing service to this community
Let me start off with some stats: 25 year old male, 5'5.5 (night height) with an 8 CM goal.
Before surgery prep: So you're supposed to cut all food and water by midnight so almost 8 hours before my surgery(my arrival time was 5:30 am to the hospital, surgery started at 7:30 AM). I've read of people feeling nauseous after waking up from anesthesia, and I thought what the hell im just gonnna cut food and water for 24 hours instead of before midnight and let's see what happens. I thought I was a genius until I stood up after the surgery. Lollll
Day 1 Surgery: So I get out of surgery and it was just a blur. i was greeted by a physical therapist not even an hour or two later. She had me try and move my legs a bit, but I was as stiff as a board. I had No pain really at a standstill, but it was like a 20/10 when doing even a simple movement.
I pushed thru the pain and with her help, finally got my right leg to move a little from left to right. We did that about 5 times, and it was like shaking the cobwebs off my leg. It was definitely really fking painful, but it was necessary to get rid of how stiff my leg was. Time for my left leg now, and it feels like my left leg was a bit worse off. I couldn't do anything without her help on that leg, the pain was just to much. Eventually the stiffness went away a bit and I did some half ass reps and we moved on.
We then did 5 knee bends, my left leg again needed a lot more assistance. My pain level thruout these excersices was between 8-9 levels
My PT then asked if I can sit on the edge of the bed... i went into this surgery prepared to never say no to something before trying. But Jesus Christ, when she asked me to try I was close to saying no. I was really nauseous and groggy, and the pain was intense with even the tiniest of movements. But I said fk it and pushed thru all that and did it. Again, pain levels were thru the fkn roof, but I was on the edge of the bed, and the stiffness went away.
Now, I got this far, I was actually getting kind of excited. It's walker time baby. I pushed myself off the bed and got up on the walker comfortably, took llike 6-7 steps and sat back down. Felt like a crwckhead on PCP getting punched in the balls and just pushing thru the pain. I got back in bed and was given two norcos (maybe I should've taken those beforehand?) lol oh well.
I slept great thruout day 1, until I had to piss. Getting up out of bed and into a walker to piss fking sucks. Extremely painful but gotta do it. I can't piss laying down. So I finally get up hold the urinal and nothing comes out for literally 10 minutes. I read about IFS's experience with a straight catheter and no thank you. I have a pretty high pain tolerance, but I really didn't want to go thru with that. Nurse said I had like 12 hours to piss or something, so I tried again A couple hours later and pissed out half a urinal. I had to literally force it out like I was taking a poop but it came out. Felt relieved but Im on day 2 now and I've had to literally force my piss out like a turd.
That's it for now. Any questions feel free to ask I get discharged tommorow morning