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I help adults recover from orthopedic surgery and get back to what fuels them | National board-certified health & wellness coach | 20+ years guiding people through stressful life events

10/21/2026

At 2am, every item on my pre-surgery list had one name next to it: mine

At the time, that list felt complete.
Looking back, I now know it wasn't.

Three nights before surgery is plenty of time to cross off one name, and ask someone else to step in.

Who can you include on your list? Tell me in the comments.

10/20/2026

It’s almost five o’clock, and the office has emptied out around me.

I need this spreadsheet printed before tomorrow morning's meeting. Getting to the office printer means getting to my crutches, making my way down the hall, then picking up my documents and carrying them back without mauling them. Easier said than done when both hands are occupied with crutching. It's a whole production that I just don't have in me at 5:30pm.

So I sit there and stare at my computer.
One thought keeps coming up: why is nobody helping me?
I sit there, feeling momentarily sorry for myself.

Others had offered to help - co-workers, and my boss. “Let me know if you need anything.”
Every time, I gave the same bright answer. “I’m good, thanks. I’ve got it.”

I said it so well that they believed me.

Sitting there alone, it hit me. Every one of them had taken me at my word, the word I’d been repeating for a week.

Nobody came because nobody was asked.

If you’re the dependable one, the one everybody leans on, you might be giving that same answer right now. Then sitting in the quiet, wondering where everyone went.
Most of them are probably close by, waiting for you to let them know.

Who’s one person you’ve told “I’ve got it” this week? Tell me in the comments or DM me.

10/19/2026

Nobody told her to ask for help before surgery. So she didn’t.

She figured she’d handle it, like always. Then she was home on crutches, staring at the coffee maker across the kitchen like it was a mile away.

Asking felt so much harder by then. Everyone had their own full week. She felt like she’d already dropped the ball.

I see it differently now. Asking early is part of getting ready, the same as packing the bag or prepping the ice packs.

People say yes more easily when they have time to plan.

Who would you ask first? Write their name down today.

Saturday you wake up and your knee feels almost normal. So you finally do the things you've been putting off. That night...
10/14/2026

Saturday you wake up and your knee feels almost normal. So you finally do the things you've been putting off. That night you go to bed proud; you're sure you've turned the corner.

Sunday morning, your knee is puffy and stiff before your feet even hit the floor. The whole day goes to the couch and an ice pack.

One good day, two bad days.

Sometimes it starts the other way. PT is rough, so the next day you push extra hard to prove it was a fluke. Either way, the crash shows up a day later.

My new blog post walks through three simple ways out of the loop: when to stop on a good day, how to spot the warning signs early, and how to judge a day the morning after.

Read it at the link in my bio
or go directly to https://turnstonewellness.com/blog/how-to-stop-the-good-day-bad-day-cycle-during-recovery

10/13/2026

You wake up and something feels different. The usual pain isn't there, and moving around the house is easier. You stand at the kitchen counter and think, finally.

So the workout goes back on the calendar. The long workday makes a return. You say yes to the dinner you've been putting off for three weeks.

By afternoon you feel the familiar pull of "I'm fine, I can do this."

Then the next morning, the swelling is back. The fatigue hits harder than it did last week. You sit on the edge of the bed wondering what you did wrong.

A good day is an easy signal to misread. Less pain can mean your body finally got a chance to catch its breath.

Think of it like a savings account. Rest is a deposit. Overdoing a good day is a big withdrawal.

This one is extra sneaky if you're used to outworking every obstacle. Effort has worked everywhere else in your life, so of course you reach for it here.
Doing less on a good day is still doing something.

My new blog post shares three ways to stop the good-day/bad-day cycle, including how to tell when to quit on a good day.

Read it at the link in my bio (or turnstonewellness.com/blog)

10/08/2026

The arrow tells you which way to go. It says nothing about how far or how long.
That's what a recovery timeline really is: a direction someone gave you, with a date that was always a guess.

You've been measuring yourself against a number someone gave you at discharge.You wrote it on your calendar and told you...
10/07/2026

You've been measuring yourself against a number someone gave you at discharge.
You wrote it on your calendar and told your whole life to plan around it.

Then week six came and your body had other ideas.

That number came from other people's recoveries, built on averages. You are not an average.

Recovery on the slower end is still recovery. It just has more weeks in it.

Read the full story in my blog.
Link in bio.

10/06/2026

You left surgery with a number on your discharge sheet. Six weeks. Three months. Whatever it was, it started as a guideline.

Somewhere between the hospital and your calendar, it became a deadline.
Then the deadline arrived. Your body said not yet.

Bodies just don't follow averages. They follow their own pace, slower for some people and faster for others.

The number you've been measuring yourself against was built on other people's recoveries. It was never actually yours.
Ask your care team what the range looks like. There's more room in there than that first number suggested.

Feeling stuck or behind? Let's talk.
Link in bio.

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