PAO – 2 Years Later

Happy Hipiversary to me!

This morning I received an email and text from CU Sports Medicine asking me to fill out a 2 Years Assessment – Hip and Lower Extremity. I get these texts and emails all the time – 3 Months Assessments, 3 Weeks Assessments, 1 Year, Baseline, 6 Months, 18 Months – and I never fill them out so the reminders keep piling up and crossing paths. Sometimes I receive different ones on the same day.

I don’t fill them out.

Here’s why…

1. There is so much cross healing, it is impossible to isolate whatever body part I’m supposed to assess.
2. I’d have to go check the calendar to remember dates and which surgery exactly each assessment is in reference to. There are too many to remember dates off the top of my head.

In any case, thanks to those emails and texts this morning, I remembered that it has been two years since I had my second PAO done. This feels entirely impossible. As dramatic and traumatic as PAOs are, so much has happened since then that has been more problematic, diminishing the intensity of the PAO. At least in my memory.

This stuff fades.

And so will the current travail.

These texts and emails really serve as reminders to me to continue to look forward rather than back. To live in the present and prepare for the future rather than dwelling on all that has happened. To continue to grow with the lessons this has all brought and savor the deliciousness of it all. To celebrate my rainbows rather than lingering in the clouds.

Today’s email and text serve as reminders of how close I am to the end of this all. That I am merely doing parking lot circles at this point in order to finish what I started. That my Three Big Tabs are nearly fully tended to.

And that I am grateful for the gift of it all!

Happy Hipiversary to me!

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