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@DeepBreath What a wonderful update from your surgeon It must be a great feeling to be fully weight bearing again and now it's onwards and upwards towards your goal of having two good hips and getting your life back.Well done I am so pleased for you.
 
Nana757, Hipster Girl, and Kim22, Thank You, friends for your kind words. :) Yes, it feels like a huge leap forward to be able to weight bear and without pain.
The LLD is noticeable, but I'm confident the next surgery will sort that out.
It was a really good day. :flwrysmile:
 
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Hi Deep!!! That is wonderful-WONDERFUL news! And no pain upon walking.. that makes me so happy for you!!
I think as you continue to walk that you will adjust a bit to the LLD, i am noticing mine less and less. I notice it more when barefoot, not so much in my good supportive joggers.
So, how long on the walker?? Oh my, and the weather should clear up and give us some more sunny, cooler days so you can walk outside and enjoy the foliage.
You have been on a long recovery path with this and you have done it all with barely a whimper. And always with a smile. You are my hero. Truly. :roseshwr:
Yay-yay-yay! No in home PT yet! Woo and hoo!!
 
Great news . You will be doubled new hipped and all healed up soon. Enjoy your walks but don't start out doing too much.
 
That's great news, @DeepBreath. So glad to hear that you have no pain while walking. It's pretty amazing, isn't it? November 23rd will be here before you know it! I bet your surgeon was really pleased with your healing. I'm curious, what stretches are you doing? Take care...
 
Hello, hippie friends!! :)
Cricket, I sure noticed the LLD when I got home from my appointment yesterday and off came my shoes! I think you're absolutely right as even today I am growing more used to it. It just feels SO GOOD on my poor old non-op hip to have a supportive 'buddy' helping to carry the load. My OS didn't say anything about when or if I can ditch the walker, so I'm just going to play it by ear. I've taken a few careful steps without it and it's okay. I do like the stability though. The no pain thing just has me over the moon. Thank you for your kind words. You've been such an encouragement as I've gone through this. :) I'm so grateful to you.

Hip Hip Hooray! I love your avatar, by the way. I keep forgetting to tell you that. :) I am honestly just doing very rudimentary stretches. Side abduction while sitting on my bed with my legs straight out, side abduction while standing and hanging onto my walker or a counter, opening my legs while using an exercise resistance band, plus the 'usual' ones: standing upward knee bends, stretching the leg out behind me as much as I can while standing, and, while sitting, bringing the leg up from a bent position to fully stretched out-holding for a few counts and then lowering it back down slowly. I have noticed an improvement in my ROM, but was really surprised at how much he could 'bend' me while testing my op leg out yesterday. He said that the joint looked and felt great and that it was just a matter of healing up the soft tissues and gradually re-training the muscles. He seemed very pleased with my progress and kept saying, "You are doing really great". That was wonderful to hear! :)

It has been sprinkling on and off here today, so I took my exercise in the form of walking around my house and reclaiming my kitchen! :egypdance:
The kitchen is my area. I like to cook and I like things just so. My husband has been doing a great job...endless KUDOS to him and I know I'll need to continue to rely on him as I heal. I am control freak enough though that I was delighted to get in there today and give it a good going over (nothing too strenuous, I promise) Just setting things to rights and enjoying puttering around. I have chicken defrosting in cold water in the sink, which I will bake with some of my favorite herbs and spices. Along with that I'm thinking some steak fries and a big old green salad. YUM!! It truly is the simple things in life that give the most pleasure. :)
I am acutely aware of that, especially since my surgery. When I snuggle into my soft, warm bed at night I thank God for that bed, and our home, the good food we eat, our health, and the freedom we enjoy. I am richly blessed...in no small part with wonderful family and friends in real life and here. Thanks to all of you, hippie buddies. I hope your day is going wonderfully. :flwrysmile:
 
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So glad you are doing well. Isn't it great to reclaim your kitchen?? I try to keep things I use the most within my reach. After first surgery my husband would put things where I couldn't get to them or in a different spot, so frustrating. My cupboards are so disorganized now but I'll have to live with it until I can sit on the floor and go through things. Glad you are getting around more and getting back to your normal life. Wishing you continued healing
 
Deep, you re so right. Gratitude.. it's kind of liberating, isn't it? And thank you for your kind words. I want us all to do well. That's my gift and my downfall with my work, I try to hard to help everybody, to my detriment at times. I want to fix everyone. But I've learned to pull it back a bit.
But gosh, how I love cheering you on! You are so brave and so cheerful about it.
Does this mean that you will need to prep a ga-zillion more meals before the next hip?? :shocked:
I think of you in that kitchen limping on that poor fractured leg pre op and I could cry for you. But! pain free walking, now! isn't it the best. feeling. ever? I walked Rooney tonight and almost cried with joy,, that hip was gliding like a warm knife through butter.. it may take some of us longer than others, but we will all get there. woo hoo!
 
@Doodles51, thank you. :) I had to smile at your account of your disorganized cupboards. I hear ya! Luckily, nothing was horribly displaced (that I can tell) during my absence. I had to giggle at my husband the other evening though. I keep our frying pans in our pantry because our cabinets are not deep enough to house the largest one and I like to keep them all together. I know he has seen me take frying pans out of the pantry on many occasions. Recently, however, he was in need of a frying pan and came into the living room and asked in a thoroughly exasperated tone, "Do we NOT own any frying pans?!" I hid my smile and said, "Yes, they're in the pantry on the third shelf. The lightbulb went on over his head and he left the room with an, "Oh....yeah" thrown over his shoulder. :heehee:

@CricketHip, oh that fine line between being helpful and giving too much of ourselves. That is a struggle. I can tell that about you; that you are a 'fixer' and take people's plights and pains to heart. It's part of what makes you so wonderful. It can become too much though. I'm glad you've learned to pull back. You have to take care of yourself first to be able to help others.
Thank you for your sweet words. That means a lot to me. :)
Yes! I will be making a new batch of freezer meals, and I'll tell you that prior to yesterday, that seemed quite daunting. After having a very successful day in the kitchen yesterday and again today; I feel like it is definitely doable. I told my husband that he and I would need to sit down this weekend and review the meals I made so he could have input as to what 'worked' well and what needed changed up.
The next couple of weeks I'll be scouring the internet for new ideas and then we'll do the big shopping and get started on those dishes! One thing I know for certain is that I'll be making extra pans of scalloped potatoes. I only made one this last go around and we enjoyed it so much that we finished off the entire thing in one meal.
The manicotti I made...not my favorite. It just seemed so bland and tasteless. I'll have to research it and see what can be done.
I almost cried reading about how you almost cried after walking Rooney! I love hearing the 'warm knife through butter' analogy, and am SO pleased that you're doing so great. :yay:
I hope you're feeling good today and that your headache is better.

Take care, Hippie Buddies! :flwrysmile:
 
Hi @DeepBreath, You sound great! I just caught up with your thread. Guess what I'm cooking? A roast chicken with herbs from the garden, baked potatoes, and spinach. Haven't decided if I'll cook the spinach, or make another spinach salad. Guess we were on the same wavelength. Glad to hear you made some scalloped potatoes, too. Aren't they delicious? I think they make a meal so special. There's something fancy about them.

Thanks for explaining the stretches. I'll have to try some of those. It sounds like your OS was really pleased. It must be rewarding for him to see you healing so well.

Thanks for the compliment my avatar. That's one of my younger ballet students. It was taken years ago. She was such a special girl. I loved teaching her.

Keep up the great work. Cooking is so therapeutic. I'm doing the same thing...
 
Tut reading this I must be female as I do all cooking and after opp wwiffff cooked one meal and sheeesh I went into the kitchen after. Nope I hadn't heard the three minute warning, the TV hadn't said there had been any thermo nuclear detonations and I hadn't heard a bang. Admittedly I had heard the odd naughty word eminateing from the kitchen. Hence I moved back into my kitchen.

Legin THR Sep 14
 
@Doodles51, I literally LOLd at your post. :heehee: The thing of it is, next time he'll have to ask me again, God love him. He's a sweetie and tries so hard and has done a terrific job. I'm sure if I tried to step into his work space I wouldn't do even half as well as him.

@Hip Hip Hooray!, oh my goodness! I read the full account of your roast chicken dinner on your thread and my mouth is watering! Roast chicken is one of my favorite meals. There is just nothing like it. The potatoes and spinach salad sound just perfect to go along with it. Food is healing, isn't it? :)
And yes, the scalloped potatoes were wonderful. They are fancy and homey all at once.
I've enjoyed doing the exercises. They're simple and yet I can just up the reps to give myself a bit more challenge.
The little girl in your avatar is adorable. I'm sorry if you've mentioned this before; I knew you taught, but for how long? I was a Kindergarten and 1st grade teacher's assistant for 6 years in my younger days and oh my goodness, some of those kiddos really stick in your heart don't they?

@Legin, no...you're not female. I was being sexist. The idea of a fellow who cooks the majority of the time is a wonder to me. I got a good chuckle out of the account of your poor wife's cooking adventure. That sounds like a roommate I had in my early 20's. HATED cooking, but we'd agreed to divide up the duties. One would cook, the other clean, and then switch places. After a few times of eating her charred and/or raw attempts at the culinary arts, I offered to take over full time. I am no Emeril, but at least we weren't in any immediate danger of dying of some foodborne illness.
I will say that my husband has me beaten hands down on any kind of beef preparation. I simply cannot do it. My extent is browning ground beef. He can take any cut and prepare it using any method and it is tender and delicious. I don't know how he does it.

I had an epiphany yesterday. I have noticed since my surgery that when lying down my op leg feels like it is resting a big higher than my non op leg. At first I didn't think much of it because I would have it resting on a pillow and after I discontinued the pillow it would rest on part of the folded back quilt on the end of our bed. The past few nights however I've just been laying on the sheet and I still notice that sensation. It finally struck me that my surgeon had done what he'd set out to do: correct my dysplasia. Since my pelvic structure was out of whack, he had to move it. I'm certain that the height difference I feel is the result of that. DUH! :thud: Hello, Miss Late to the Awareness Party. LOL! It will be interesting to see how it feels after the next surgery.

Have a terrific day, Friends! :flwrysmile:
 
That makes perfect sense @DeepBreath. And you still have muscles, ligaments, etc that haven't totally returned to their normal length either. I'll betcha, once you have your other hip done, you'll be amazed at how "even" you will feel. You have done so remarkably well, I have no doubt you'll just breeze through the next one, as well.
 
Interesting thought/epiphany @DeepBreath. I noticed my unoperated (right) hip was posteriorly rotated - meaning when I stood facing the mirror squarely that my rt. hip looked further behind me. I figured the rough housing during the op. did some of that so at 4 weeks had a very gentle adjustment from a trusted chiro Dr.
I am so much better aligned now.
But, of course you have that other hip needing replaced soon! Hey, you may be taller after it's all said and done!
 
Chortle I'm like that it had to splat me in the face.
The poor wifff see thing is she is so much better at tidying than me but in the kitchen all sense of proportion and logic gets left in the bed. Don't ask about trying to get her up.....

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@DeepBreath You are correct when you notice things are different after surgery. With both done, I can now put my knees together, starting to do clamshell exercises, which I could not do before. Sleeping with pillow between my knees was nothing new because I've had to do that for 2 years. Wait until your second. Sometimes I feel it's hard just for me to stand normally. It's an odd feeling. I'm strengthening and stretching everyday. So nice to do that with both now, it was hard to do with one good and bad. Keep on healing. Ok, now you've got me wanting to make scalloped potatoes
 
Okay, I need a venting session.
Remember the nightmare roommate?
Well, a couple of weeks after I came home I noticed a missed call on my cell. There was a voice mail and it was her.
I wondered 'what the heck?' as she had given me her contact info but I didn't give mine. When I mentioned it to my husband he said, sheepishly, that one day when he came to visit I was at PT and the roommate said she'd like to keep in touch with me. I hadn't been able to share my feelings about her with him because, of course, she was right in the room.
So, he gives her my number.
I know this probably sounds mean and cowardly, but I simply blocked her number from my phone. I 'knew' her for 2 miserable days, bit my tongue through all her complaining and unwanted advice, and then gladly said goodbye when she left.
Oh, and the message she left was this rambling diatribe about how she was convinced that her surgeon broke her femur and she was going to sue him and wanted to give me her lawyer's number so I could sue my surgeon as well since she believes it is some sort of conspiracy by the Ortho surgeons to break femurs to bilk money off the military health care system. Meanwhile, her husband is in the background yelling at her that she can't sue a military surgeon or hospital and calling her a dummy. Lovely.
So, I blocked her and forgot about it.
Last week, she called from another number, again it went to voice mail.
She is 'horribly worried' about me and really wants to talk over the lawsuit situation. Ummm...no.
I block that number as well.
Today, she calls me TWICE. Once from yet a third number and then from a restricted number, each time leaving a message wanting to know why she can't get in touch with me and why does she get a message saying my number does not accept calls from her number?
She's shouting and raving about needing to talk to me to 'see that I'm okay' and to share information her lawyer gave her.
Then, like a switch has flipped, she says, very calmly, "Okay, have a blessed day. I'm sending blessings out for you".
So, I guess at some point I'm going to have to answer her call, since obviously she has a limitless supply of phones from which to call me, and will have to raise hades and put a chunk under it and tell her to QUIT calling me.
Egads, why do I attract people like this?
Thanks for letting me get that out.
 
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