bumblebee2
junior member
Hi all, hope everyone is okay and fairly painfree x
I had my right hip replacement on the 26th, so today is 6 days later and i'm starting to see improvement on a daily basis.
I lost much of the 26th and 27th sleeping on and off in a low blood pressure and morphine haze.. i'm guessing i lost a fair bit of blood in theatre as my blood pressure was awful until it finally started staying stable on Friday morning.
I was released from hospital on saturday (should have been Friday but i failed the stairs test due to my muscle refusing to lift my foot up - i'm assuming the surgeon cut through it , it's still super weak but it is starting to pick up a little more each day).
I'm not sure where i should be in terms of recovery at this point, but i'm still super tired a lot of the time, and i'm finding something as simple as going upstairs exhausting. I am however noticing that i can stand for longer periods each day. On Saturday i had a shower before being released from the hopsital, and was totally exhausted by the time i'd finished. it felt lovely to be nice and clean, but wow, i can't even explain how much getting dressed took out of me. The nurse had asked me to leave the door unlocked in case i needed help, and i'm glad i listened, I got stuck trying to get my trousers on (couldn't drag them past my foot that i couldn't lift due to the not working muscle) and the nurse had to come in to help.
One very awesome (and weird) point right now, is that paracetamol!! = it works.!! It never works, I stopped bothering with it years ago, even Naproxen wasn't taking any of the hip pain away before, and now i can take a couple of paracetamol or a Naproxen, and half an hour later sit there marvelling at how my pain has subsided to a nice level 5 or 6 out of 10.
My scar is bigger than i thought it would be, so i'm a bit disappointed by that, but it's also not cut into my bottom as much as i thought it would, so that's kind of made up for the size of it a little. I'm uncertain exactly what my surgeon closed my wound with, but i have no staples or stitches as far as the nurse could make out when she changed my dressing before leaving hospital on Sat. Surgical glue and clever use of dressings perhaps? - whatever the case, from what i could see of it (i didn't want to look too much, but was pleasantly surprised by the bit i could see), it looks nice and neat and it's healing nicely.
Ugh - mini whine coming up though.. = food and drink!! - i didn't factor in for how i was going to get a cup of tea or a meal from the kitchen, to my living room. I live on my own, so have to do most things myself. For tea and coffee i've ended up using a plastic travel cup (kind of like a kids sippy cup), and then i place it into a wine bottle gift bag (bag was helpfully supplied by my step-dad yesterday yay), pop it onto the arm of my crutch and then take it to the living room with me. For food, i'm eating mostly ready meals atm, so i'm popping them into a sealable plastic container, then into a carrier bag, and carrying that through.
If anyone has any better ideas on how to transport food, please do let me know xx
I had my right hip replacement on the 26th, so today is 6 days later and i'm starting to see improvement on a daily basis.
I lost much of the 26th and 27th sleeping on and off in a low blood pressure and morphine haze.. i'm guessing i lost a fair bit of blood in theatre as my blood pressure was awful until it finally started staying stable on Friday morning.
I was released from hospital on saturday (should have been Friday but i failed the stairs test due to my muscle refusing to lift my foot up - i'm assuming the surgeon cut through it , it's still super weak but it is starting to pick up a little more each day).
I'm not sure where i should be in terms of recovery at this point, but i'm still super tired a lot of the time, and i'm finding something as simple as going upstairs exhausting. I am however noticing that i can stand for longer periods each day. On Saturday i had a shower before being released from the hopsital, and was totally exhausted by the time i'd finished. it felt lovely to be nice and clean, but wow, i can't even explain how much getting dressed took out of me. The nurse had asked me to leave the door unlocked in case i needed help, and i'm glad i listened, I got stuck trying to get my trousers on (couldn't drag them past my foot that i couldn't lift due to the not working muscle) and the nurse had to come in to help.
One very awesome (and weird) point right now, is that paracetamol!! = it works.!! It never works, I stopped bothering with it years ago, even Naproxen wasn't taking any of the hip pain away before, and now i can take a couple of paracetamol or a Naproxen, and half an hour later sit there marvelling at how my pain has subsided to a nice level 5 or 6 out of 10.
My scar is bigger than i thought it would be, so i'm a bit disappointed by that, but it's also not cut into my bottom as much as i thought it would, so that's kind of made up for the size of it a little. I'm uncertain exactly what my surgeon closed my wound with, but i have no staples or stitches as far as the nurse could make out when she changed my dressing before leaving hospital on Sat. Surgical glue and clever use of dressings perhaps? - whatever the case, from what i could see of it (i didn't want to look too much, but was pleasantly surprised by the bit i could see), it looks nice and neat and it's healing nicely.
Ugh - mini whine coming up though.. = food and drink!! - i didn't factor in for how i was going to get a cup of tea or a meal from the kitchen, to my living room. I live on my own, so have to do most things myself. For tea and coffee i've ended up using a plastic travel cup (kind of like a kids sippy cup), and then i place it into a wine bottle gift bag (bag was helpfully supplied by my step-dad yesterday yay), pop it onto the arm of my crutch and then take it to the living room with me. For food, i'm eating mostly ready meals atm, so i'm popping them into a sealable plastic container, then into a carrier bag, and carrying that through.
If anyone has any better ideas on how to transport food, please do let me know xx