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    THR Heterotopic Ossification after Total Hip Replacement

    Thanks. We have our 50th wedding anniversary coming up July 2, 2019. I move to Atlanta on May 24, 1969 and first met her on May 30, 1969 and we were married five weeks later. It's been a great fifty years and I would do anything for her and she for me. Here we were 50 years ago when life was...
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    THR Heterotopic Ossification after Total Hip Replacement

    Thanks for all of the kind words with thoughts, well wishes and prayers. I just took my wife Anna back to the Surgeon who did her Heterotopic Ossification surgery a year ago (May 22, 2018). And, the great news is that the x-rays taken during this visit show no new HO has grown back. That...
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    THR Heterotopic Ossification after Total Hip Replacement

    Surgery done on May 22, 2018 (last week). Doctors advised they took a "ton" of extra bone material out of my wife's right hip and leg. The day after the surgery they gave her a treatment of radiation on the area of the surgery to try to prevent the calcium from coming back. She had to spend...
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    THR Heterotopic Ossification after Total Hip Replacement

    Thanks Jaycey. This is a condition that has very little information about it anywhere. It has been a very tough on my wife and she has to use a walker and gets tired very quickly. She has fallen several times but fortunately has not broken anything else. Because of that she doesn't drive her...
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    THR Heterotopic Ossification after Total Hip Replacement

    Sorry, My post was made on April 30, 2018 not April 22.
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    THR Heterotopic Ossification after Total Hip Replacement

    April 22, 2018 - My wife's problem with Heterotopic Ossification in her right hip after she fell and broker her hip and had a total hip replacement in Sept 2016 continues. However, after her last bone scan (full body) the doctor reports that the calcium has stopped growing and now she can have...
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    Hip Infection* Hip revision

    My wife has Heterotopic Ossification in her right hip. This developed after she feel and broke her hip and had to have a total hip replication (9/4/2016). Her story so far is outlined under the user name of CalciumHip. We are right now waiting until April 2018 when she can again have a full...
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    THR Heterotopic Ossification after Total Hip Replacement

    Just wanted to bring my wife's tread back up front. Does anyone have any more info on Heterotopic Ossification??? #heterotopicossification
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    THR Heterotopic Ossification

    HOBooker3, Just wanted to check in with you to see how you are doing?? My wife is still having a lot of problems and pain.
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    THR Heterotopic Ossification

    You are the first person we have heard from that also has HO. My wife had her left knee replaced on Aug 24, 2016 with the plan to rehab the left knee and then have the right one replaced maybe six months later. However, a week later she fell in our house and broke her right hip. She had to...
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    THR Heterotopic Ossification after Total Hip Replacement

    Sorry I didn't see the image of the toilet come up and I inserted it more than one time.
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    THR Heterotopic Ossification after Total Hip Replacement

    Josephine, No the one I bought my wife was like this (see attached photo). It was a seat with a hole and flange that goes into the toilet, a back and arms on both sides. It is adjustable up and down to fit different height toilets. Now she no longer needs this much help in the toilet and has...
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    THR Heterotopic Ossification

    HOBooker3, Now my wife uses a Rollator made by Drive (cost about $175). It has hand brakes which help when you are going down hill and the brakes can be locked. It's a lot easier to walk with that the regular walker. However, it has wheels all around so you have to take that in to...
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    THR Heterotopic Ossification

    HOBooker3, At first my wife used a walker. The photo shows it with tennis balls attached to the bottom which works great in the house but not so great outside where concrete will eat up the tennis balls and they will have to be replaced. Here is a photo of her walker:
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    THR Heterotopic Ossification

    HOBooker3, My wife no longer uses the adjustable commode chair and now uses a riser which attaches to the top of her toilet (note we already had higher sized toilets). It comes with arms that attach to the size which she doesn't like and are not shown in the photo. The arms could help you get...
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