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  1. LAbabymama

    THR LABabyMama's Recovery Thread

    Just popping in with a quick update... it’s been over seven weeks since my surgery and I’ve been making steady progress. I’ve resumed most activities and find that I’m not as fearful about dislocating as I used to be. I’m getting better at walking up stairs since I returned to PT and starting...
  2. LAbabymama

    THR LABabyMama's Recovery Thread

    Good to hear from you @ahipgma. Sounds like we’re on a pretty similar recovery track. Sorry that you had a bad hip day - they still seem to come and go at this stage. I’m on my feet all the time now - hard to avoid it with two littles at home. The weekends are draining and I find myself spending...
  3. LAbabymama

    THR LABabyMama's Recovery Thread

    @jwadds, I work from home, so getting up frequently isn’t a problem. But I’m a writer, so I often get lost in the work and find I’ve been sitting too long. Have to work on that. I will say that I found PT very helpful today. We didn’t do a lot of exercises - mainly focused on massage work and...
  4. LAbabymama

    THR LABabyMama's Recovery Thread

    I drove myself to PT today and it was easy. Very little discomfort. Silly that I had to wait so long with a LTHR. Feels good to have my freedom back. @JennyLynne sitting for long periods is definitely hard, but the pain doesn’t always go away when I stand and walk around. I’m not sure if it’s...
  5. LAbabymama

    THR LABabyMama's Recovery Thread

    Thanks for the advice everyone! I am now six weeks post-op, and as of tomorrow all my restrictions are lifted and I can drive again! I’m starting outside PT tomorrow and looking forward to building strength and ROM. Over the last week I’ve felt like I’ve either plateaued or backslid - my leg has...
  6. LAbabymama

    THR LABabyMama's Recovery Thread

    Thanks @ahipgma and @Hoppy Nanny. Your words are reassuring and remind me that there are plenty of athletic people who have hip replacements and go back to doing the activities they love. I’m not even that athletic, so I can’t imagine I’d be putting myself in too many compromising positions...
  7. LAbabymama

    THR LABabyMama's Recovery Thread

    Happy 5 weeks @ahipgma! Sounds like you’re way ahead of me recovery-wise. Maybe I’m being too cautious. I’m still afraid to side sleep, mainly because I’ve always been someone who likes to internally rotate when I sleep. I can’t wait until I can sleep on my operative side so I don’t have to...
  8. LAbabymama

    THR LABabyMama's Recovery Thread

    Hi @SE Florida and @JennyLynne - thanks for checking up on me. I’ll admit I have been spending less time online both because things have been pretty quiet and because I’ve been trying to spend more time focusing on work. I find it’s too easy to get distracted by all the wonderful updates on...
  9. LAbabymama

    THR LABabyMama's Recovery Thread

    Congrats on 4 weeks @ahipgma! And oh what a 4 weeks it’s been. Tonight for the first time I totally forgot about using my cane. Guess that means I’m making progress. Of course after a day on my feet doing a lot of cooking for the family, I’m definitely feeling more swollen and sore. Looking...
  10. LAbabymama

    THR LABabyMama's Recovery Thread

    Thanks for all your well wishes. My mom appears to be getting better with meds. Yay for small miracles. As predicted, I’m starting to feel under the weather, but so far nothing too bad. Also as predicted, our weekend was a bust - with the exception of our daily afternoon walk with the kids. I...
  11. LAbabymama

    THR LABabyMama's Recovery Thread

    I’ve never been this exhausted in my entire life. Is there a level above ODIC? Even after both my daughters were born I wasn’t this physically spent. Turns out my mom has pneumonia now. So I guess inviting your almost 80 year old mom to help out when you have two small children isn’t such a good...
  12. LAbabymama

    Bilateral THR Twice as Nice - JennyLynne's recovery

    Wow @JennyLynne I sure have missed at lot! Sounds like you’ve been pushed to the limit lately. I can’t believe you’ve been driving for so long. My doctor has a strict 6 weeks policy, even for a LTHR. I was prepared to break that rule, but my husband won’t let me. I’m getting so sick of being...
  13. LAbabymama

    THR LABabyMama's Recovery Thread

    Thanks @jwadds, but I don’t think anyone has it easy with this surgery. It’s just varying degrees of difficult. For example, I’d mentioned that my baby and my husband were sick. Right when they got over their illnesses, my mom and my oldest daughter caught it too! I’ve spent the last two days...
  14. LAbabymama

    THR LABabyMama's Recovery Thread

    Hi @ahipgma - The baby's feeling better today, but now my husband and my mom are both sick. Oy! Should be a fun Memorial Day weekend. I know what you mean about doctor and physical therapists scaring you with hip precautions. My doctor kept saying "be afraid" at my post-op checkup. Makes me...
  15. LAbabymama

    THR LABabyMama's Recovery Thread

    Thanks everyone for the encouragement! @ahipgma, happy 3 weeks to you too! It really isn't all that long ago that we were getting wheeled into the operating room, unsure of what lay ahead. And now here we are, slowly returning to our daily lives with less pain (well, half as much for you) and...
  16. LAbabymama

    THR LABabyMama's Recovery Thread

    Big update today: I finally had my staples removed! Just in time for my three-week anniversary. My OS says the incision is healing nicely. I can shower tomorrow and put water on it as I wish. He wants me to increase the length of my walks each day and eliminate all physical therapy except for...
  17. LAbabymama

    Bilateral THR Twice as Nice - JennyLynne's recovery

    That’s awful @JennyLynne. I really feel for you. It’s so hard having to meet the needs of a child after surgery, but doing it with the stomach flu?? I can’t even imagine. You are definitely a trooper. Hope you feel better soon.
  18. LAbabymama

    THR LABabyMama's Recovery Thread

    @JennyLynne and @SE Florida I'm hoping to be able to post the movie to this site (it may actually be broken into shorter chapters) as long as that's allowed. We figure it'd be a good resource for people considering whether to get the surgery. Of course, we all know that everyone's experience is...
  19. LAbabymama

    THR LABabyMama's Recovery Thread

    Wow -- thanks everyone for sharing your experiences! I can appreciate everyone's position and agree that there is no one way to go about recovery - especially since we all started out at different levels of fitness, we all live in different places, have different surgeons with different...
  20. LAbabymama

    THR LABabyMama's Recovery Thread

    I think a lot of it also has to do with the fact that I’m weaning off the heavy meds. I got down to four 10mg doses spaced out every 6 hours. I was feeling pretty good with that. Then I started cutting doses in half, one at a time. I’m now down to two 5mg doses (1pm and 7pm, and two 10mg doses...

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