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THR Here We Go Again!

Happy Monday @Barbaraj, sounds like you're over the worst and starting to get back to some kind of normal. Glad you had a good time at the birthday dinner and have to agree with opting out of the other festivities. It is funny that a trip to the grocery store is the highlight of our day. It definitely has turned out that way for me. Highlight today was checking out a new primary care physician since our current one retires in like 2weeks. Tried to work it via phone with our insurer but they couldn't see this doctor as accepting new patients on their end. The military Tricare insurance is so weird. Anyway his office is working directly with Tricare and will call us later with an update. Gee, the busy social life I lead! :snork:
 
Ha, ha @Elf1, we are all an exciting and lively bunch, aren't we? Looking back in a few months, I suspect we'll be rolling our eyes at the things that now feel so thrilling to us on a daily basis, but for right now, I'll take 'em! Good luck getting your PCP situation straightened out.
 
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@Barbaraj and @Elf1 ---this is exactly what I love about this forum----being able to share and commiserate in real time about the reality of hip surgery, as well as being about to look back and offer thoughts that hopefully will help others as they go through the same things. Compression socks, shaving our legs, excitement about a trip to the grocery store or even to the back yard----always nice to have a tribe of folks who get it! :loveshwr:
 
Hi @Barbaraj
So glad you got to go out. I had a posterior approach and remember the relief I felt even when I could sit on the commode without pain, which took a while to happen. It's good to be out in the world but at your stage I remember sinking gratefully into my comfy recliner when I got home with my trusty ice pack.
I am a nurse of such long duration and have given out and judged the need for others pain meds for so long i dont pay any attention to what's written on the bottle.
That said, I was given oxy and tramadol and still have quite a bit left from my first surgery, I think in my case I was really worried about constipation ( saw at work many opioid- taking patients miserable and sick with it) and just feeling spacey on the stuff. But next time (coming all too soon) I will control my pain better. If I dont take what's given me at the times allowed and suffer then it's kind of my fault. I know what I'm doing. But I was just so happy to be able to drive at 2 weeks out! I could never drive on oxy nor would I. Oh, Barbara it's all about balance! My surgery is rushing up on me and i say , Ick, Like your thread name here we go again. Like last time I guess if i escape infection, dislocation or blood clots I'll be OK.
I had to laugh about your Nurse Nancy comment! I WAS Nurse Nancy and wore those support hose 40 hours a week in the 80s
Good for my legs but we never wore them outside of work. I ditched my hose after 2 weeks last surgery. I figured I was ok doing lots of ankle pumps!! Nurses are bad. Hang in there Barbara! I envy you being 2 weeks out!
 
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Oh, boy, am I in an extra GOOD mood today! Just got back from my two week post-op check up and, as I thought, I am doing really well. Despite my personal assessment, it's nice to get confirmation from the medical personnel. I am walking pretty darn easily--sure, a bit slow and sometimes awkward, but without any assistive device, and feeling very stable on my operated hip. I get up slowly and have to stand for a minute to make sure my weight is evenly balanced but after that I'm actually able to start walking "normally" which is such a relief. Sure, I still have aches and pains, with the usual stiffness and soreness one might expect, but my ROM is improving and I really feel as if I'm on the mend and within a few more weeks I should be "good to go". I'll get X-rays at the 6 week post op visit, and then I'm hoping to get a referral to PT so I can begin strength and flexibility training.

The nasty rash all around the incision is still very much in evidence but they said (ha, can't see it myself) that it's improving (slow as the dickens as far as I'm concerned) and with the passage of time I should continue to heal. For now, it's just changing out the dry pad dressing daily. Fortunately, despite how awful it looks, the incision is healing well and the blistering doesn't bother me except for a bit of itching occasionally on the outside edges where more individualized blisters have migrated. But even that is pretty minimal and doesn't require any attention. Got permission, reluctant but nonetheless, to ditch the over the knee compression stockings for knee high stockings which I already own and used last time. I will behave and use them for two more weeks, I promised, but grateful to get out of these miserable white thigh-high tights and into a flesh colored knee high. It's the little things, folks, as I suspect you might agree, that loom especially large during recovery!

@ahipgma, you'll do great on your second surgery. Like me, you've been down this road before and although there may be things about this surgery that will be different (for me, awful rash and seems like it was far more achy and sore the first week) it will all begin resolving itself and within 6 weeks, I hope, you'll be in reasonably good shape and moving ahead to get your life back without having to face the inevitability of another hip replacement--a bionic babe in 2020!

I'm in such a sunny and positive mood today, despite overcast skies and cooler temperatures (I'm making my own sunshine in my head today! :SUNsmile:) so I want to wish everyone on the recovery slog a great day, no matter where you are on the journey. Remember that we are ALL headed in the right direction! Happy Tuesday!
 
Okay, another day on the recovery road. Yesterday’s high has faded a bit as I overdid things yesterday afternoon but still feeling more hopeful and positive than I have the last two weeks. It is still a slow and tedious slog, with accompanying aches, pains and stiffness, but I can really feel and appreciate the feeling of forward momentum.

Husband has taken off for the morning and I don’t expect him back until early afternoon. But he’s promised we can go down to the park again and take one or two slow circuits on the paved walkway. It's going to be a warm day, with a high of 80 (officially too high for me--75 is the sweet spot) and I'm looking forward to getting outside for some fresh air and sunshine.

Forgot to have my husband help me take off these thigh high stockings and switch to the knee highs, but I will do that when he's home and before our walk. I did make my own morning latte this morning, and even ventured out slowly onto our sloped driveway to retrieve the morning newspaper. Slow steps toward independence, but gratifying. Driving is the next challenge but I'm not quite ready for that yet. Still, as I sit here looking wistfully out my study window, I think how pleasant it will be, sometime soon, to get out there and go someplace on the spur of the moment.
 
Happy Wednesday! @Barbaraj
You're doing great and will be independent and on your own soon enough I'm sure. I'll bet even quicker than last time as you know your limitations having been down this road before. Another two weeks and you'll probably be driving. Even a quick trip to the grocery store early on to grab a couple items feels gratifying. Or a CVS / Walgreens / Rite Aid type run, someplace like that where you can normally park close to the door and wander a bit with the cart to feel like you're part of the human race again. You're on your way! :happydance:
Enjoy your walk in the park!
 
Oh, yes, @Layla, that first independent run to the grocery store for milk will definitely be an exciting day for me! and imagine the thrill of going into Starbucks on my own. Such pleasures await me!
 
They are simple pleasures though and we forget! Isn't it the truth? You really do begin to appreciate the little things after THR once you're able to do them again with ease. I'm not a fan of grocery shopping but I experienced one of my best memories that I've often repeated on the forum about a month after my surgery. I won't go into detail but I've seared the moment into my memory because I was feeling so grateful. I didn't want to forget the feeling of gratitude and appreciation I was feeling given this second chance.
 
Isn't it funny how we have to wait for our husbands to undress us before they go? This morning I had to get mine to remove my walking boots and socks and I was so thankful that I remembered otherwise I would have had to go to bed in them as he works until 11pm tonight :rofsign:

Enjoy your walk around the park. I always found that even if I had done a bit much a gentle walk helped to loosen things up. I hope its the same for you
 
Oh such a wonderful report and post. I know the highs and it gets really high there and then overdoing and a little less high but we eventually come back to ourselves. So nice that you get to go to the park for your walks--very lovely for you. It's the small things that count I say and even when this is'over' I still maintain this WAS the lesson.
 
@Barbaraj The waiting, the waiting, oh how I hated the waiting too and my first time being held down so long. When can I do this, or that, and even now I'm nervous when I stick my neck out to do something and wonder about paybacks if it does not go well. Wish we could just speed up our recovery. Enjoy your walks.....♥️
 
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