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@bickpeg One of my most favourite books as a child was "Drinkers of the Wind" all about the amazing Arabian horses, and their origins in the desert. This is just my opinion, but the real 'Arabian Horse" has had that bred out of them for the show world (as as in the dog show world), and some of them look like cartoon characters :sad:. The true Arabian horses are the ones seen competing in Endurance Riding Competition...closer to their original use. The Arab horse was revered by their Bedouin owners, and even slept in the same tent (that is pushing it IMO :heehee:) together. The visit to the Royal Stud in Jordan must have been AMAZING!

@1stSurgery Please do share Poop and Scoop with your husband! I haven't asked my husband to groom horses yet. Hoping I can con some of my horsie friends to give Tall (retired) and Small (rescue) a brush off. Youngster (will make his debut nest summer with his bionic Mum) is at horsie boot camp for a few months, hopefully staying out of trouble. However, if your Hubby is at a lull in his duties and wishes to scoot up north for a few hours, the barn is open:rotfl:
 
Hope all is well with you @bickypeg .:curtsey:
Guessing that little cherub is your grandbaby!
Hopefully that hip is behaving and you are getting stronger.
Hope your weekend is sweet!:SUNsmile:
 
Hi @bickypeg, hope you are having a good day—your talk about how nice it is to spend time with your granddaughter really resonated with me. Yesterday, my first day home, my husband took our granddaughter to her ballet lesson but he picked her up early and brought her back to our house first. I got a hug from her and a note saying I was a “swit grandma” (she is 6). My husband also needed me to put her hair into a messy bun, a requirement for class. So, I got to feel useful for a few minutes as well as getting a nice hug—nice interlude in that long afternoon.
 
You are going to get there, @bickypeg , a wonderful goal for you! I love my grands, a boy and a girl,and it is hard to be the grandma you want to be when you are dealing with sore, stiffening hips. On a slightly subversive note, however, I am so glad I am not dealing with wee ones at the moment or even responsible for teens. We've got kids from 23 to 39, and I am so over parenting! Love being able to enjoy visits from the grands and then send them home with a smile, hugs and profound relief at the end!









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Thank you @Mojo333. Most of the family are around today and one is making lunch which is lovely. But in between the days drag rather- I feel I'm just marking time until the New Year and new hip. Old hip makes it hard to plan anything much and I worry it's holding back my new one which would like to get out more! But hey it's October tomorrow and time for snuggly jumpers, nourishing food, autumnal sights and smells, and being lazy by the fire.
 
I know it's not easy feeling like you are in limbo. It WILL be worth it when you are finally done with this hip business!
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But hey it's October tomorrow and time for snuggly jumpers, nourishing food, autumnal sights and smells, and being lazy by the fire.
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That does sound lovely..here in the southeastern US, we are still hot AND humid!:groan:
If I converted it right...today will be about 32 Celsius
I do love fall except for that it is a precursor to winter:nah:
 
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Go @bickeypeg with the perfectly lovely descriptions today.
First on what a hug from our beloved grandkids feels like, then spot on regarding what October has to offer.
Except I don't know what a jumper is? :heehee: Sweater? Jacket / Coat?

Wishing you comfort in this month of October as you move toward the new year and new hip.
 
@Bickpeg Finished reading/rereading your thread :) . Growing up and living in a British colony, with British school teachers, I'm so familiar with cream tea (LOVE!), the bin, jumpers, bobbies with bats, and the list goes on. My Mum and paternal grandmother were American so I'd switch back and forth with my speech orientation! When tourism in Bermuda took a back seat to international business (1970's) in Bermuda, more folks from other countries started to filter in, so we have British, American, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, South Africa, Philippine influences, in addition to the British, Caribbean, American, Canadian influences already there in my childhood...all on 22 square miles! I found myself adapting my vocabulary and accent to the person with whom I was speaking! When I was in college in the US, my friends were somewhat amused by the changes in my accent and vocabulary, if they overheard me speaking on the phone. They'd ask me the nationality of whom I was speaking with! I have to say, the only thing I haven't recognized on the forum was "stick" for a cane, perhaps because they didn't feature heavily in my youth :heehee:

Back to hips....I so hope you get your second hip scheduled soonest! How much time is there usually between the NHS "joint class" and one's surgery date? Mine was four weeks between the two here in Canada. This time around I have to have another pre-op with GP....blood taken and ECG...as it has been more than three months since the last one. I also have to have another OR pre-op which requires more blood work, xrays and talking with OR pre-admission. I'm able to skip the "joint class" as I call it, as well as the anaesthesia pre-op. My OS has said that he wants to keep everything the same as last time, as it seemed to work well. I had a general with hip #1, as I was so worried about them digging around in my arthritic and compressed back for a spinal (after my back MRI results), and additionally worried about hearing carpentry noises. I didn't get nauseous post op from it (never have), and was able to go home the next day, so hopefully it will be the same. I am not going to have any expectations one way or the other....just get 'er done!

I understand your frustration in not being to do as much as you'd like as per the operated hip, who wants to get up and go now. In some ways the worry about my second hip kicking up a major fuss, is making me really behave and adhere to the BS schedule of daily living. I'm only on week three, so I can only imagine how raring and ready to go with the second hip you must be. We are birds of a feather in hating all this sitting around business! :bored:

Woke up this AM with the weather "talking" to my still arthritic hip and back. It is damp and rainy here today! I bet the powers-that-be who are doing the research regarding weather study and feeling poorly (you posted about I believe) have some very interesting findings! I certainly get stiff/have pain when the weather changes. During hurricane season in Bda, as a storm approaches the barometer plummets, and I would always get headaches with that too. Strange! I would love to know more about the physiology behind these things!
I guess your Sunday is just about over now, so wishing you a comfortable night and a good week ahead :flwrysmile:
 
Awww @Alitm I'm really touched! Mostly I feel I'm just moaning on here which is very cathartic but probably rather depressing to read! What an interesting life you have led.We lived in Jordan for 5 years and 2 of my boys were born there. A lovely place to bring up children and friends from all over the world.
Hoping next op will be around 6 weeks from Joint School but no more. The waiting lists are long because of cutbacks to our dear NHS. Makes me so angry. Not looking forward to recuperating in the winter; it was so much easier during this surprisingly long and lovely summer. Throw on a pretty dress and I looked respectable for little effort. I'd had 3 epidurals during childbirths so it seemed a sensible choice.I can't imagine going home the next day and I'd have stayed longer given the chance! Strange the difference between countries- my sister had her hip done in Spain and was in bed for several days and only home after a week.But I don't think she recuperated any faster.
Had a lovely few days with bits of the family popping in and out. No 3 son made paella and a homemade apple cake for lunch and it was lovely. I miss them when they're gone though.I did an online test recently to find one's mental age - I got 20- 29 yrs which seemed right! How can I possibly be nearly 70?!!
 
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About that going home next day thing....this time I actually felt it was premature. They are so eager to boot you out of the hospital in the US though, you're seldom in for long except the most extreme circumstances. But this time, given no one instructed my foggy brain that when I got home I should take this and that medication during the day... It felt too soon. Not that I wanted to stay but I was out of range --pain wise -- of my husband's hands to deal with it. And had I been there one more day they'd have been taking care of that. Last time I was ready to come home after surgery!
Very sad to hear about the wait lists and NHS cutbacks over there too. It seems the direction all health care programs are going these days. My sympathies for having to wait out months and months for a date while in pain! You're welcome to use my countdown numbers as you get closer :) It helps...
 
@bickypeg I believe the forum is set up for us to vent on regarding the frustrations and fears of THR surgery...from every angle in life :)....as well as ask questions and gain knowledge so we are better informed of course! It is not depressing at all to read your thread! We all understand as we go through similar experiences in one way or another! I have to say, no one that I know really gets what we are going through. One has to go through it to truly understand, not only the pain and the management of it all, but the subliminal emotional ups and downs me thinks.

I worry about the rehabbing in the winter months too. Not conducive to getting out and about walking. I do think we might need a little extra healing time to start with, and for me, it might keep me out of the ODIC in week two post-op this next time around! I'm looking at how wonderful we are going to feel once Spring arrives...it will be a whole new world! We will be able to walk, play with grandchildren (don't have any yet!), dog walk, hike,ride, garden and get back to life :happydance:. :angel: that you get your date soon.

Living in Jordan must have been amazing. I hear from other friends who have travelled there that it is beautiful.

You are probably in bed by now, so I'll wish you a comfortable Monday :flwrysmile:
 
@bickypeg and @1stSurgery

I don't know how I will feel about coming home the next day, after surgery #2. I'm going to see how things unfold this time around. I was ready to come home last time, but in hindsight (always 20/20!) I feel as if I was not prepared with the pain meds. The nurse went over the Tramacet Tylenol issues, but never once discussed the Dilaudid with me....that I remember! The narcotic meds make me so off. I really couldn't focus, process or remember anything! I'll have to discuss that with OS at my six week visit for #1 hip. The only thing I could remember was that Tramacet had Tylenol in it and I had to be aware of that.
 
That's what I mean, @Alitm. Have no recall of anyone going over it with me this time, just a bag of pills appears from the hospital pharmacy and I gave credit card, basta. I think we are not in any state of mind at that point, the day after surgery, still medicated, to even absorb the routine if they did tell us. That part should be the caregiver or spouse role for that discharge day. Instructions should've been given explicitly to them. Since they're not on mind altering drugs... Well, hopefully! And for days one and two at home they can be the ones to have the schedule sorted and make sure it's adhered to. I had my little white bag o meds that went right on to the dresser behind me and then people started coming over... In the thick post op brain fog and with no one advised to remind me.... The whole bag just totally slipped my mind until many hours later when everyone had left....and I had to stand up to go to bathroom. Too late by then.

I suggest -in hindsight- we should all have the meds schedule clearly explained and written out for the person responsible for you - who's taking you home at discharge. Not to the patient, who won't remember any of it.

I'm on double ice now with oxy kicked in and striving to find that balanced schedule that will let me keep the digestive tract undisturbed and still ease this wretched monster pain! Righty sure went out with a bang.
 
@bickypeg ....paella and homemade apple cake?!?! How did I miss that on the first read?! That sounds delightful! My grandma was Danish and used to find 100 ways to make apple centric desserts and pastries. Loved them all. I keep finding reading posts here that make me hungry! Maybe once I can go upstairs..to the kitchen, it won't be so bad, the cravings. But apple cake should so good, warmed I hope?
 
I whole heartedly agree @1stSurgery with your suggestion that our significant other/family member/spouse/friend should be with us to receive/review the pain med instruction before we go home. I was in no frame of mind to process the info! Now that I am so much more clear headed (maybe no narcodics since Thursday , I'm going to go over the post op discharge notes again. I will ask Hubs to go over it all with the nurse BEFORE we leave the hospital in November.

@bickpeg Your son's cooking sounds wonderful...yum!
 
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