Well, we can conclude from today that shopping 2 weeks post a microdiscectomy is not a good idea. 30 minutes drive to the shops plus 10 minutes standing waiting for an assistant to be free (it is the first day of the post Christmas sales) plus 10 minutes to discuss/decide which laptop to buy left Nick actually sitting on the display units in a desperate attempt to relieve the increasing back pain. Fortunately it then took only 5 minutes to pay before making a hasty retreat back to the car and then to home. Equally fortunate was the fact this was at John Lewis, so no comments were made about a 6 ft 3 teenager sitting on the display units!
Pain not bad enough to require any painkillers and after lying flat on his back again he recovered, but I would definitely not recommend shopping.
Other than that, the usual 3 x stretches plus two further walks (we decided that the shopping trip counted as a walk) of 2 x 1 km and lots of lying down.
Steri strips are now off so we are massaging the wound twice a day with vitamin E oil which I know from my own extensive experience of scars will help the wound to heal quickly and neatly.
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