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Apr 27 comes quick then slow for me @Cindy99. At this point I am slowing down I feel like I'm walking through an obstacle course with trying to stay healthy and safe until Monday morning. I'm on my 4th day of warfarin. I'm allergic to Celebrex ingredients which the pharmacist didn't point out & I didn't see until I picked up the script and read the warnings. You sure do have to be an advocate for yourself!
That is so forward thinking sweet Cindy99 and good for you to put out some plant pots! :flwrysmile:
 
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Apr 27 comes quick then slow for me @Cindy99. At this point I am slowing down I feel like I'm walking through an obstacle course with trying to stay healthy and safe until Monday morning. I'm on my 4th day of warfarin. I'm allergic to Celebrex ingredients which the pharmacist didn't point out & I didn't see until I picked up the script and read the warnings. You sure do have to be an advocate for yourself!
That is so forward thinking sweet Cindy99 and good for you to put out some plant pots! :flwrysmile:
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I identify with the obstacle course. I, too, am trying to stay well. A bit of congestion this am, hope it's nothing.

Using the nasal antibiotic supplied by the hospital to ward off mrsa. No blood thinners yet, told aspirin after surgery.

My garden pots were full of frozen soil this morning (it snowed here!), but I know it will warm up by the time I'm ready to plant seeds.

Only two more times I have to drive. Yea!!

I'm SO ready for Monday. Hurry up and get here!
 
Hello @Cindy99 sending warm thoughts and hugs to you today. Everything you are feeling is completely normal. Thank goodness for this forum where we can share, vent, worry, cry, laugh, and anything else with support rolling back to us. Rainbows of sunshine and blessings to you today.
 
I just realized that alot of what I'm feeling is discord -- my body doesn't match my mind! It's like my aging dog who gets wound up about something and then falls to the floor when he turns too quickly. His parts just aren't the same anymore but his mind is.

I'm still waiting or my life to begin but here I am already needing replacement parts. I can hardly believe it.

Discord rules.
 
We all have that, forget not able to do things and suffer for it, hence big kid syndrome. When I look back and saw the pain my father went thru with knees and back I am v grateful and a wee bit sad it wasn't available for him and the pain racked life he had.

Legin THR Sep 14
 
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Cindy, I just your thread from beginning to end. You are going to be just fine. I live in France. Just had a LTHR on 4/13 anterior approach. My surgery took 59 minutes. Woke in recovery. Had a bit of pain. They hooked me up to morphine drip so I could control my own pain. I only pushed the button twice in 24 hours. Pain gone. They made me stay in bed until second day when I was allowed to use walker to go to bathroom and do a hand bath, brush teeth. 4/15, they changed bandage and removed drainage tube. I found out then that I had dissolvable stitches. My incision is 4 inches long, very little bruising. They started me on PT. All good. I came home on 4/18 and a nurse comes daily to give me anti-clotting jabs for 35 as well as changing bandage every 2 day. PT comes daily. I am 12 days post surgery. I am walking a few blocks every day. It is good, and you will be good. Just heed the restrictions that they tell you. Do not cross your feet or legs. They will tell you others. You are going to be happy.
 
Agree with @yankee-in-france, @Cindy777! You will get through it fine. I had the more old fashioned lateral, but still, nothing was as bad as the waiting pre-operatively. Things aren't fast afterwards, or in any straight lines, but it is all a move forward and that feels so good. I'm 17 days, and hung out my own washing on the line today. Hah! take that restrictions! Wishing you every calmness and stress free days till you get your new hardware. :)
 
Thoughts and prayers for both of you come the 27th!!


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Need a whining break:

Starting to fall apart 24 hours earlier than I thought I would. Have been held together by a mighty thin string to begin with. Just can't stop crying, am nauseous, and feeling oh so alone. No family, no local friends. Wish I had different circumstances...or at least didn't also suffer from depression (a fifty+ year battle).

Good thing I got most everything done before today because I'm useless now.

And good thing i have lists because my brain has turned to jelly.

Thanks for listening.
 
Its ok lass try all the usual side tracking stuff but it will be ok. This thing is routine now. Not long wee snooze then cindy bionicwoman.
 
May the Good Lord hold you close in His arms and remember, you are not alone, He is with you every step of the way. I'm going to reflect on this over and over and over again until they roll me into the operating room and I'm not able to reflect again until I wake up!
 
Wish that worked for me, but alas it doesn't. Guess I'll just have to tough it out!
 
Hi @Cindy99 fellow big D sufferer :friends: Toughing it out is - to be brutally honest - the only solution. The thing is, where you are now you think you can't... but you CAN and WILL... and you only have a few more hours that you have to 'just breathe' :) I have struggled with Depression all my adult life, I have to say the time just before this surgery ranks up there as one of the hardest in that battle.... I didn't think I'd make it to surgery - felt so drained, done, unable.... or so anxious I thought my heart or brain would burst! Somehow I DID get there, got it done and have been in the best place I have for years ever since. It's do-able Cindy, but you have to do it for yourself - if I could take some of the angst away for you I truly would because I KNOW how very debilitating it is - I'm glad it's behind me and in a matter of hours you will be too.

I just wanted you to know that for every one of us, depressed or not, this THR journey is one we largely fly solo - except, importantly, for the support we get from places such as this; we the Smarties of BoneSmart have been where you are, we KNOW what you are going through... the only people I "knew" who'd had experience with this type of disabling disease and this type of surgery were the peeps on this forum; they were my lifeline when I was wondering "is this supposed to happen" "is it normal to feel like this" and so on. We are here - and there's someone available any time of the day or night - the wonders of the internet age and it's ability to ignore international timezones :cool:

As Legin said, stick with your distraction techniques.... do something that doesn't really require decision making, like rewrite your lists in a different colour ink... you'll be surprised how focusing your mind on such a simple task can help ease the babble in the background :yes: and if you do it badly it doesn't matter because you've got your original list! Lists are good; they are something concrete in a liquid world :eyebrows:

You'll be there very soon, there will be some challenges after surgery for sure, but I'm telling you NOTHING is as bad as this time pre op... So, just breathe - and like Dory says in Finding Nemo "just keep swimming"

Donna
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@Cindy777 I was a basket case the day before my RTHR. And it was my second op! Perfectly natural to be upset. This is major surgery.

The good news is the success rates for THR are fantastic. If you read in our post op area you will find the most posted comment is "why did I wait". Not long now you will have that shiny new hip and a new pain free life! Hang in there!
 
The scared little girl in me is saying "I don't want to be alone!" Blame my parents for never hugging me -- I obviously have never felt protected and therefore don't have that feeling to carry with me. And not having a subsequent family of my own to take up the slack.

Thanks @craftdee . I have lots I have to do today regardless, drive two hours to drop dog, big shopping trip box store, figure out clothes, make bed. Just have to so it.

I'll take your word for it that most of this is normal, but it does bring to the fore my hate of being so literally alone. I hate being in charge all of the time. It's exhausting and not comforting. Remember when they used to tell you to " hug yourself?" That's BS and no substitute. I want someone to hold me, not hug me.

My reality.

Sorry.
 
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