Introducing my best friends during rehabilitation: cane, picker, long-handled sponge, shoehorn, sock dresser, and two-wheeled walker (and I thought only little old ladies used these–oh wait…)
Two weeks after surgery
(March 17, 2014)
Why does it hurt so far from the incision?
My muscles are a straitjacket of pain
to natural walking unseen, inner prison.
Will I ever walk easily again?
Deep in my hip a tremolo of weakness
that frightens me when stepping with a cane.
At physio a modicum of redress.
Back walker-creeping I feel old and lame.
Violet Nesdoly © 2014 (All rights reserved)
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This poem is the third in the series of poems I wrote about a mishap I had this spring. Click on the “LIMP sequence” category below to view all.
Violet Nesdoly / poems 
mattforrest
October 7, 2014 at 11:04 am
At least it sounds like you’re doing better now, than you were! Hang in there…I’m still doing PT on my knee, too!
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Violet Nesdoly
October 7, 2014 at 11:32 am
Thanks Matt, You realize, of course, that this was written many months ago. I am much, much better now and walking quite merrily an hour a day. But those first weeks after the injury were a different story!
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mattforrest
October 7, 2014 at 11:35 am
Oh, I totally understand…it takes quite awhile to get back to normal. I was on crutches and in pain for the first 2 weeks, and now I’m jogging!
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Laurel
October 7, 2014 at 12:35 pm
so glad to know you have come through this and well into your walking routine once more:)
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Violet Nesdoly
October 8, 2014 at 8:08 am
Thanks Laurel! I’m glad too. 🙂
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Linda Baie
October 7, 2014 at 6:39 pm
Violet, I am glad you’re better, & even able to craft a poem about it. I didn’t know you were writing poems about your accident. It’s the questions, always the questions, isn’t it? We are impatient. Love the tongue-in-cheek opener-“Oh wait.”
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Laura Shovan
October 16, 2014 at 7:54 am
Violet — wishing you a continued recovery. I agree with others — you’re making something positive out of your pain with these poems.
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Violet Nesdoly
October 16, 2014 at 9:10 am
Thanks, Laura! It’s interesting to look back and see how much I’ve improved. Our bodies are amazing creations of self-healing.
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