Day 10
Still waking up with the aching of the leg and unable to resolve how to preempt the pain other than doubling up on pain meds the night before 1st thing in the morning.
Sat in a transfer chair with W/C cushions for 20 minutes while someone came over to cut my hair.  Now I was almost looking human.
Around 4 PM I noticed a very sharp sensation of soreness/pain in the area of the posterior greater trochanter.  The way I would describe it is as if I had just received an injection of steroid or antibiotic in the buttock ( obviously had pneumonia before ).  This was a new sensation over the last 10 days so was worried that it might be a reflection of doing something not good to the leg.  I tried to comfort myself and say it is just using muscles that are "waking up".  This new discomfort was either accompanied by or just appeared at about the same time as another one that bothered me more.  As I would start to walk there was a sharp pain in the hip area of the rectus femoris or the main quad extensor and a secondary hip flexor.  It felt as if there was a pinch, like something was not moving smoothly and  it produced moderate pain.  I noticed that if I attempted to stand in the walker like I had been doing and lift my knee up to touch the lower horizontal bar the pain was reproduced.  Decreasing the stride length decreased the pain and appeared better with rest
Anytime I have new pain like these 2 I try to "figure out" what may have caused them assuming there is always an assignable cause.  Maybe I was not keeping on top of the pain, maybe I hadn't been moving enough, maybe I was in 1 position too long, or maybe this was back related somehow.  The pain was not to be figured out this night, however the old standby of doing less and using it less continued to work.
Prior to going to sleep I remembered that if I wanted I could take off the occlusive dressing I had worn since surgery as this was day 10.  I was a little nervous and there was only 1 area 2/3 of the way down the incision, that actually stung as I removed the dressing.  There was no drainage or oozing and the skin was not red around the incision.  It itched for about 1/2 hour and I left it to air dry overnight.  Double up on pain medication and off to sleep I went