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    Bilateral THR ByGosh ByGolly ByLateral

    SO good to hear from folks I haven't heard from in a long time! The Goshporch is a wonderful place -- now if we could just get ByGosh out here . . . . Maybe if we all holler and laugh REAL loud, she'll peek out?
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    THR Tashia's Hip is in Recovery, WOW!

    Happy birthday, Tashia! So sorry to hear about your fall. That would have scared me to death. I'm glad you are doing better, though. I know what you mean about "friends" who kind of fell by the wayside during the journey to recovery, and I also understand how hard it is to jump back into...
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    Bilateral THR ByGosh ByGolly ByLateral

    Hey -- don't start without ME! I can even get up the steps to the porch now! I'll bring some cold fried chicken and potato salad and a big fat chocolate cake! Maybe even some BBQ ribs and fried okra. If someone would make a rhubarb pie I would try not to eat the whole thing. Haven't seen...
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    Told my girlfriend about me getting new hip

    @moms4tne Who you callin' elderly?? That would be someone over 95, no?
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    Told my girlfriend about me getting new hip

    @easethepain Welcome! But, hey -- you're not nearly the youngest ever -- we've had TEENAGERS on this forum needing new hips, and a number of folks in their twenties! You'll be SO glad when your hip is replaced and you're rid of the pain!
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    Told my girlfriend about me getting new hip

    I like the shark wrestling story -- OR you could go with it being a flare up of an old wound you got while working in Black Ops that is so secret you're not allowed to talk about it. OR you could say you hurt your hip working at your second job pole dancing for the mafia in Sicily. Or how...
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    Waiting for Surgery

    @waterman1 There probably isn't an answer to "why me?" And it probably wouldn't matter anyway, since you can't go back and undo whatever it was that caused it -- even if it were anything in particular. I think it is just caused by living and the luck of the draw, and in my case arthritis...
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    Anyone have knee pain relieved by THR?

    I had a lot of knee pain before the surgeries, and most of it is gong now. I do have some arthritic changes in my knees, but most of the severe pain I had in knees was apparently referred from the hips, since it is gone now. Still have a little bit, but nothing like before. One thing to...
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    Waiting for "Good Oh!!"

    @Merlin the great Welcome! The waiting is the worst part, by far. I"m sorry you have to wait SO long. That must be so awful, and I know first hand how the pain and lack of mobility makes your world keep getting smaller. I hope you get a date soon. It's just inhumane to make a person in...
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    Told my girlfriend about me getting new hip

    @Chessie Well I don't see why having to have a hip replacement should be any more embarrassing than having to have your appendix out. I mean, it is just something that went wrong and needs to be fixed. People get all kinds of things fixed at all different ages, after all. I'd just tell 'em...
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    I'm having bilateral hip replacement on June 19th

    I had both hips done, a month apart. I did just fine. Just don't try to rush healing or do too much too soon. Peace and love.
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    Heartburn / reflux concerns by hospital

    @Sharri I didn't have hardly any PT, and I did just fine. Josephine says hips do just fine without a bunch of PT, and it sure was right for me. All I did was the few things they teach you right at first -- ankle pumps and do on, which are mostly to stave off blood clots. Don't worry about...
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    Scared but excited.

    @rbtaylor14 I bet you WILL be able to go back to your job and finish your shop, etc. after your surgery. The new hips work just like the old ones did before they gave out. I'm never even aware I have metal hips (except when I go through security gates). You won't jump right out there and...
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    blood auto-donate? allergy tests? anything else in pre-op?

    My doc didn't feel it was worthwhile to donate blood ahead of time. He VERY infrequently uses transfusions, he said. I think they have some fancy way now to give your own lost blood back to you or something like that. As to metal allergy testing, I didn't do that, as far as I know of. I...
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    THR Joe Did It

    This was true for me as well -- short walks and more of them, than one long walk. I dunno, maybe shorter walks aggravate the joint (and stamina) less?

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