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Elosarabrab Great to hear how well you are doing. It must be great knowing that you have had both hips done and to be free of arthritic pain. Watch out for Quinn !
 
Elosarabrab, I had to smile about your day...it sounds like my yesterday. I had two friends that stopped by and brought lunch and flowers. We had a good time visiting before we realized it several hours had passed and they felt they needed to leave but same as you, I had to do nothing they even brought paper plates.
 
How old is Quinn? We have two cats, a brother and sister from the same litter - they are 17 years old. So they are pretty good about not getting underfoot (they've learned the hard way!) but they are sure appreciating the fact that I am sitting around more than usual to cuddle with them!
 
Elosarabrab barbara, you're sounding really good! I'm practising not cussing the cats out at feeding time. MY feeding time! They like to lurk about 3 inches behind my right ankle while i am in the frig....I'm sure you know that drill! Maybe we need to keep the walker, and swing it wildly around when in the kitchen :)
 
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Quinn is a rescue cat we had him since 2008 they think he was about 16 months old then so that makes him 6 and a half. He loves coming onto my knee to get his ears rubbed but at the minute he unintentionally sits on my newly operated hip so I have to shove him off. He has the uncanny knack of being exactly where I am going to put my foot down, when seconds earlier he was asleep in one of his boxes. He is not afraid of the crutches, he flops down in front of me and wont move even if I give him a nudge with a crutch.
I woke up a couple of times last night with a dry mouth I must have been snoring. Luckily Ed sleeps through it.
My hip only hurts when I press on it, (I know don't press on it then :heehee: ) I avoid doing that as much as possible.
 
I have had the dry mouth, too. I am keeping water on the bedside table so I can take a sip wen I wake at night or first thing in the morning. I am usually not a back sleeper, but since I'm stuck in that position for now, I guess I'm snoring, too. (My husband mentioned it in passing yesterday.)
It sounds as though you are coming along well!
And yes, don't those cats often step right near the incision area?! lol
 
Our cat is about 14 years old and loves my husband. My husband has never liked cats but cats seem to pick who they like. So it's funny to me whenever my husband sits down our cat, or his cat wants to be sitting right on him. I'm 10 days ahead of you and I have been able to lay on my operated hip for short periods of time. I have fallen asleep on it but I do wake up because it's aching. I would say in this past week, it has become less painful though.
 
Songlady Elosarabrab re dry mouth-- in the US we have a "dry mouth mouthwash" called Biotene.
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It's great stuff, I use it every night on recommendation of dentist. I'll bet there's some equivalent in the UK. Image source www.cvs.com
 
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Our cat is about 14 years old and loves my husband. My husband has never liked cats but cats seem to pick who they like. So it's funny to me whenever my husband sits down our cat, or his cat wants to be sitting right on him. I'm 10 days ahead of you and I have been able to lay on my operated hip for short periods of time. I have fallen asleep on it but I do wake up because it's aching. I would say in this past week, it has become less painful though.
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I have just been allowed to lie on my operated side this week and I fall asleep on it but always wake up on my back . Our cat Susie lived until she was 20 and what a character she was. She always seemed to know who didn't care for cats and jump onto their knees.
 
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I love cats---and they can be amazingly perverse like that. I had a Siamese--my father adored her--she would let him almost touch her head to pet her and then take off. My mother who did not care for animals--the cat would rub her ankles and try to sit in her lap. She also would sit in the den window of the lady who lived behind us. It was the room our neighbor spent most of her time in and she was terrified of cats. I know she knew exactly what she was doing and was doing it deliberately.

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Apart from Henry our dog, we also have 2 cats, Tiberius and Kat the cat!! Tiber is about 12 and is insistent about sitting on me. Kat, short for katrina, came from a rescue place, she was 12months when we got her and had been in there for 6 months! Such a pretty little girl but she would bite anyone who came near her in the shelter so of course nobody wanted her. We took a chance on her and although she will sometime turn, she is a lot better and does love a cuddle, she rules the house now!! :kittykiss:
 
We can't trust our cat and he wasn't a rescue cat, we got him when he was 6 weeks old. He pretty much bites or tries to bite my husband on a daily bases. Our oldest granddaughter thought cats only hissed until she was about 4 years old. She would even imitate our cat hissing before she could talk. We also have a dog, Casey, she's a our spoiled brat. She gets whatever she wants and pretty much figures she deserves everything. The kids love her and she's so gentle that we can totally trust her with them.
 
Quinn loves Ed and he follows him everywhere. If Ed goes to the kitchen Quinn is right there. I go into the kitchen he doesn't bother to follow. If you want the cat on your knee he doesn't want to know. On the other hand if you are busy he wants to be right there. It is difficult to read or knit when a cat is sitting on it. Another weird thing is he doesn't like to sleep on clear spaces. If I put the remote down or my mobile phone he likes to sleep on it. It took him months to trust us and would bite at every opportunity. He would want to be up high out of the way on top of the book case. We gradually earned his trust.
On the subject of my recovery, I am still doing well. I have water beside my bed for when I wake up with a dry mouth. The scar is feeling a bit tight but no real swelling. My heels hurt in bed so I tried the trick someone suggested filling surgical gloves with water to rest my heels on. It helped a lot.
 
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My heels hurt in bed so I tried the trick someone suggested filling surgical gloves with water to rest my heels on. It helped a lot.​
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Elosarabrab When my heels in the beginning hurt I just let my heels hang over the pillows I had propped up worked like a charm. I'd be afraid of a surgical glove springing a leak! :rotfl:
 
Nurse just been to change dressing and check wound. Everything is fine. There was a little dried up ooze but she was happy with it.
I noticed my left foot no longer turns in.:happydance:It was caused by hip dysplasia that wasn't diagnosed till 2012. When I saw my surgeon re OA he said straight away what it was. I had operations on my foot as a child but they were looking in the wrong place.:doh:Oh well its fixed now.
 
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