Today is my surgery day! I was told to expect a check in time as early as 5:45 AM so I was shocked to find out my check in time is at noon!
That just gave me more hours to clean! I have been more stressed about the home health people coming to my house and have been cleaning like mad. Yes...
My THR surgery is this Friday and I'm busy. Since I've been waiting since November, I've had lots of time to read lots of recovery stories and accumulate lots of assisted devices! Today I'm unboxing everything and putting together things.
I'm surprised that I'm actually more worried about the...
I am in my self-induced isolation time so I can avoid testing positive for COVID-19, which is three days before my May 19th surgery date.
However, I have been busy with appointments!
Even though I thought I was perfectly healthy (no prescriptions except eye drops for glaucoma), I seem to be...
In reading through my Patient Workbook (for the hundredth time), I wonder why it is stressed in several places to not ice more than 20 minutes.
Icing often is stressed but not for more than 20 minutes and never while sleeping.
Here on BS, people ice almost continuously and even while sleeping...
I have spent the last 5 months reading recovery stories here. Ever since my OS said I needed BTHR. I finally got my surgery date for May 19th.
I can see from all the stories that those who followed the BS way of no PT had far less aches and pains than those who exercised. My surgeon does not...
I have been waiting for that phone call since November 1st! The omicron put a one month moratorium on all elective surgery during February so that pushed me out even further.
I have spent the past five months obsessively reading BS. I've read hip recovery stories all the way back to 2014. The...
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