Well, POD 1 (Judy, I was actually post-op when I wrote the first post) and things are looking better. Omelette, coffee, yogurt, a walk around the ward, wheelchair ride to radiology. Boy does my x-ray look funny now with two metal hips! Can't wait to go the airport next time and try to explain the metal detectors going off right where a cowboy would have his six-shooters!
I dropped the narcotics for this surgery except for a couple of Lortab 7.5 morning and night. The Oxycontin last surgery was just too much - for my brain and my bowels! They are doing a new thing here now by giving Lyrica (a neuropathic pain agent - buy stock in Pfizer!) along with the Celebrex. I'm not sure if it's helping or not, but it's not hurting and it doesn't make me dizzy or constipated, so I'm all for it.
Not sure how rehab is gonna go with all the snow on the ground. Not very excited about using crutches in 4 inches of Utah powder. Maybe a walker with skis? Fortunately, the parents are coming to help out tomorrow, so maybe they'll drive me to the gym. Anybody else deal with this issue?
My surgeon is at our University Hospital in town and can operate in the University or at their satellite ortho specialty hospital. Let me tell you, the little specialty hospital is pretty slick. My nurse's aid just brought me lunch complete with starbucks coffee (how fancy for me). No shared rooms, no trauma patients coming in at midnight screaming in pain (or, as the case may be, cuffed to the bed with the sheriff at the bedside). Like a little vacation. I can even do drugs if I want! (I think that's what prn means. .)
On a side-note, to all you commonwealth folks out there, did anyone read or get sent the article by the Canadian guy at the Fraser Institute in the Wall Street Journal (my favorite right-wing advertisement. . . I mean paper) yesterday? It's titled "too old to get hip surgery". Riddled with misinformation and anecdotes, I found it quite entertaining and wonder what people with government healthcare think about their systems and access to joint replacement. My cousin in Nova Scotia got her knee done in what seemed a very timely fashion with good results.
Enough of my babbling. Time for lunch!