07/11/2024
Been a while since I’ve done one of these so pardon the novel 🫣
Car Accident Recovery - Day 233 (🤯)
Fun physical therapy day when your therapist say, in his professional opinion, “ewww…. 😖🤢” “Yucky” and “your hip succkkksssss” after hearing and feeling your joint grinding and popping. hahahahaa. Tell me something I don’t know sugar britches!
SO…. Big update: While I’ve had pretty severe pain in my hip every single day since the day of the accident, I was noticing slight improvement over time. Then, about 5-6 months in, the improvements seemed to plateu until things started moving in the opposite direction a few weeks ago. Instead of improving, the pain in my hip has been getting increasingly worse, which prompted my angel of a hip surgeon Dr. Galakatos, to order some more images last week. Unfortunately they revealed increased joint deterioration, new calcification within the joint space, trauma related arthritis which we’d anticipated *eventually* becoming an issue however it’s already in its “severe” stage in some areas. (Skip to the next paragraph if you’re squeamish about broken bones) The ball of my femur broke through the back of my hipsocket shattering it into bits, resulting the top 4-6 in. of my femur to be lodged under my pelvis (🥴🤢🤮 wouldn’t wish that feeling on annnnybodyyyyy) that being said, it’s become apparent that the trauma of the impact had just sheared off way to much of my cartilage and bone for us to proceed with plan A. of my recovery.
Physical therapy plans are changing from attempting a full recovery with therapy alone, to strengthening what I can before we go forward with a full hip replacement sometime after the 1 year mark of my car accident…. Not something I EVER imagined going through at 34… I’m trying to be as optimistic as ever… but I still get weepy and cry for myself every once in a while because DAMN IT THIS JUST ISNT FAIR 😤🤬😭 but mostly, bionic hip with another surgery and all, I’m looking forward to brighter days ahead next year. 🥹☀️❤️
To add to the optimism, while I write this post I want to share that I am ✨55 days sober from alcohol✨ thanks to the grace of god and the love and support of my family and friends!!! 😭❤️ I haven’t maintained this length of soberiety in close to 5 years and have zero plans of looking back…. 🥹🙏🏻
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With ALL of that being said, I’m still working on getting whatever benefits I can get from DSS and otherwise but it’s definitely been a grueling process. So, at this moment I could still use any help from my family and friends in any way possible to cover the immediate stuff like groceries/household necessities/utilities/rent.
Heck…. if someone would even want to just volunteer a little of their time to help me around the house with things like laundry or light cleaning once a week I’d be beyond grateful for that as well… 🥺 I do as much as I can but the past few weeks my pain has steadily been getting worse and worse with the arthritis that’s setting in. 😮💨
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