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14 days since my freak bike crash where I broke my hip. 14 days of almost continuous pain. 14 days sleeping sitting upright. In 14 days, I have been outside twice, once to come home from hospital and once to go to follow up doctor appointment. 14 days of being almost entirely unable to do anything productive.

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If I can just turn the corner on the pain I can start optimizing for four more weeks without walking. Some hope for that in the last 12 hours but back on a (different) narcotic, which if it has the same side effects as the last one won't be in rotation long.

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I just managed to get to the bathroom and back by myself for the first time. Probably still not worth the risk, but wife was busy getting kids ready for their first day back to school.

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The icing on this 💩🎂 is that my tinnitus, which I first experienced as a teenage drummer but gave me a 30-year break before reappearing just a few weeks before my accident, is getting worse.

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Was mostly bad only with headphones on, now always bad and headphones are out of the question. RIP music, another of my life's few joys.

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Made it to my follow up dr appt. That was a lot of movement so we will see how the rest of today goes. The doctors keep moving the goal posts on when the pain will start to go away, now it's week three (next week). Prescribed Yet Another Pain Medication.

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