The Amazing Human Body

Thanks so much for all the kind words regarding my mom yesterday. She apologized for "spoiling" my post with her rules about pre and post op pictures. {hee hee hee.}

I. Am. Absolutely. Amazed. at her progress in 24 hours. Amazed, I tell you!

I'll be the first to tell you I was a science failure in school, so I don't have a commanding comprehension of how the human body works, but being married to someone in the physical therapy world has helped me understand its ability to heal and adapt after surgery.

So I sort of had an idea of how things would go for Mom, but even "sort of an idea" didn't prepare me for how well she would do in the first twenty-four hours.


When I got to the hospital yesterday morning, she was already in a therapy session, and when I walked in, she looked totally normal! Dressed in her own clothes, with her hair done and her glasses on, she was up in a chair, stretching her leg!


I stayed for a while and watched while she got up to walk for the first time. It was painful for her, but she powered through. She took it nice and slow, one little step at a time, and she actually would have gone longer than she did, but they reminded her it was just the first of many sessions, so she needed to take it easy, and she did listen and take a rest!


Though I promise to spare her the posting of any therapy photos or videos, I will share this one I took of her with some of her flowers...can you even believe this was less than 24 hours after surgery??

I left right before lunch so I could come home to work for a while, and when Ryan and I went back after work, I was shocked to my very core. She got up for walk, and she just powered through the whole hallway at breakneck speed, compared to her morning speed! It hadn't even been twelve hours, and she was walking as fast as she did before surgery. Maybe even faster!


It truly does amaze me how a person can be up and moving so soon after having whole new PARTS put in! The body is an amazing thing, and I am grateful God built in all the things He did to make such healing and adaptation possible. As Mom told the hospital chaplain yesterday, she's grateful for the knowledge and skill of the medical community, but she's also grateful for God's help and healing! Great teamwork between the two!

We're excited to see her on the road to recovery. This waiting for surgery thing was so drawn out that she had a lot of time to overthink it and worry, and I didn't blame her. I would have done the same! So we're just excited for her that the day has come and gone and now she can get well soon!