Wonderwine
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- Apr 27, 2019
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i followed this forum extensively after my first anterior hip replacement April19 of this year. The sage advice and counsel helped me recover correctly and well. (Not quickly, quick doesn’t count in hip replacement recovery ). At 8 weeks I began working with a gait and posture group with PT experience as well as fitness and they slowly got me back to a high level of glute and hamstring strength in preparation for my second operation which was yesterday, the 30th of July.
The operation went great, the biggest difference was a different anesthesia nurse who managed that piece so I wasn’t groggy for days, just a couple of hours. But after 3 months out I forgot just how traumatic the surgery is and how your gluten and thigh an groin muscles have to completely reorient themselves in your body. And they don’t take that particularly well. They bark and whine pretty loud. So I’m back to square one, the only place to start. Laying in bed, using the walker to go down the hall a few times a day, doing my 6 “exercises” they allow me to do. But Because I’ve been through this once, I know in 6-8 weeks there is light on the other side of the tunnel. Two new hips at 60 is a shock for someone who has been a lifelong athlete, and has never had an operation or been on medication. But I’ve seen the power of the procedure and can’t wait to have two functioning joints again.
The operation went great, the biggest difference was a different anesthesia nurse who managed that piece so I wasn’t groggy for days, just a couple of hours. But after 3 months out I forgot just how traumatic the surgery is and how your gluten and thigh an groin muscles have to completely reorient themselves in your body. And they don’t take that particularly well. They bark and whine pretty loud. So I’m back to square one, the only place to start. Laying in bed, using the walker to go down the hall a few times a day, doing my 6 “exercises” they allow me to do. But Because I’ve been through this once, I know in 6-8 weeks there is light on the other side of the tunnel. Two new hips at 60 is a shock for someone who has been a lifelong athlete, and has never had an operation or been on medication. But I’ve seen the power of the procedure and can’t wait to have two functioning joints again.