I wish somebody could tell me how to get the little reply box back on my Ipad, as I could be commenting more easily - it's there briefly when I go to a page, then disappears under he page number at the bottom and, try as I might, I still can't get it back!
I seem to manage quite well with one stick around the house
@EmEm, unless I'm getting tired, when I do limp a bit. I'm particularly careful to use it at night when it's rather dark, and outside (not far outside, just out on the patio, which is rather uneven).
I'm still putting up with the stockings
@Layla, dreadful though they are. I did comment on the length of them to the nurse, but she said it was major surgery on my hip, so they needed to be hip high. I think I could possibly keep on pulling them up and wear them like a mankini!
I'm not doing much more than walking, and a few stretches,
@Yokesgirl, and sometimes the stretches are for my benefit, as my legs get stiff from being in the same position overnight in particular. I'm finding sleeping on my back the worst bit of it all really. I usually manage to sleep 4 - 5 hours in bits, and today I actually managed my first daytime nap, which was loverly!
I've cut out most of the codeine, as it was making me feel odd, and I'm mostly down to paracetamol a few times a day. I might stick with the nighttime codeine, though, as I think it might help with the sleeping - goodness knows what it would be like without it! I've also stopped the senna, as it was making my insides feel like a volcano, and I'm sticking with the lactulose, which I actually quite like. The antibiotics are still making me nauseous, but rather nausea than infection. Hopefully any little baddies will be zapped if they escape the bone - heehee!
I felt a bit down this morning, but that was only because I find it frustrating not to be able to pick up fluff from the floor, adjust the doormat, put the milk bottles on the doorstep, etc., without breaking the rules. My DH is being very good, but I can't keep asking him to do such silly little OCD womanly tweaks. I keep seeing the things around the house that look really messy and I know I won't be able to do anything about it for some time. I need to let myself go with the flow more. I think most women are guilty of not being able to switch off and do nothing.
I think I overdid it a bit yesterday, because it was my son's birthday and the World Cup match, so I sat in the garden whilst they barbequed and joined in the jollities. I think I'd have been all right if I'd had a sleep in the day beforehand, but too many nights of too little sleep made me feel really pale and interesting (maybe less of the interesting), and I've had to make up for it today, not in aches and pains, but in feeling rather weak and wobbly. Note to be kinder to self.
Anyway, all in all I think I'm in a fairly good place for day 6; I can't believe my op was a whole week away tomorrow. I'd far rather be on this side of it though - especially when I think how nervous I was. So far it's been better than I feared. Unpleasant, but manageable. Maybe I've been luckier than average, I don't know, but I'm grateful for all the help and encouragement I've been getting along the way from you lot! I hope anybody facing the op will take heart from my meanderings.
Totally random - I suddenly had a eureka moment yesterday when I understood why the restrictions are as they are. It was as though the different approaches and methods of cutting/separating muscles became clear in my mind and I could understand why the anterior approach, for example, wouldn't have the same restrictions as the posterior, as the weakness wouldn't be in the same place. As I had lateral, and my ball was approached via the side/back, the weakness is there, so lifting my leg too high would possibly push the femur out of the socket and through the weak spot. Building up the muscles will stop the wily little blighter escaping! Simples. Much easier to understand what to do/not do once the reason for it becomes apparent. I don't know why I had a lightbulb moment, as it came unbidden, but the numbskulls (look up comic characters from the 60's if you don't know who the numbskulls are!) had obviously been working overtime to come up with some logic to what I'm not allowed to do. I don't like having the restrictions, but at least I know why I've got them - like a child who keeps asking why! I also thought that if I accidentally did something, each action would chip away at the weakness, but I think if I'm lucky enough to avoid a problem, each incident is isolated, not cumulative. So far I've been fairly "good", as anything untoward is too difficult to, but as I loosen up I fear it will be easier to slide. So ....
Bye for now xx
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I'm surprised they have you wearing hip high compression socks...that would REALLY be annoying! I would ask if you could have the knee highs instead.
Hope you get some rest, see you in the morning.
You're quick wit and self deprecating humor are still in tact, dear Cassidy.
I'm so pleased for you. Are you icing a lot? How is that going?
