Day 35 - Recovery

Wednesday Day 35

I went back to work today and although I didn’t have any classroom duties I had an inordinate amount of emails to catch up on and for the most part delete. It was good to be back and my colleagues were very nice for asking after me. I spent most of the morning up and down as I found it very uncomfortable to sit down for a long period of time. Luckily we have an ‘orthopaedic’ chair already in the office and I was lucky enough to be able to grab it. I still have moderate pain in my right leg although this seemed to alleviate somewhat from moving around. This made me feel more positive about a return to the classroom which will happen tomorrow. My stomach issues have cleared up and although I still feel like my back is inflamed and is still sore I will not be going back to Arcoxia and will attempt to ride this out as the pain is not excruciating yet. I have a return appointment tomorrow with Dr Suthep, the gastroenterologist and assume he will give the all clear and I’ll be off all medication. A step in the right direction I think.