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@clifford That's great news that your operated leg is feeling stronger.The physio I saw yesterday told me that if I was not limping I didn't need a walking aid so no stick indoors for me anymore. She also started me on the step ups as well. How many are you up to and how many times a day do you do them ?
 
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Health cover is very expensive. We pay $280 per month.,that is family top hospital cover plusvextras like dental, physio, acupuncture etc.
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@MaeveOh my I wish mine were that kind of expensive. Your dollar is worth 4% more than mine, so let's call them equal for my poor brain. My family of 4 (last year) paid, for an individual health plan, $1500/month, $3500/person yearly deductible, but bright spot is $10,000 yearly family out-of-pocket max (for covered services, natch!). Prescriptions extra rider, no dental, free eye exam, free mammogram, free GYN annual for me. Medicare kicks in at age 65, but may not be around much longer, and has so many quirks and loophols that people go nuts trying to manage theirs. Current health insurance plans (offered by for-profit companies; even hospitals are free enterprise for the last several decades) are often offered by employers, and can include families. We had that decades ago, it was very nice indeed. But us self-employed types have to purchase an individual plan, very expensive as you are a " risk pool of one", each of you. OTOH our employer won't penalize us for eating Girl Scout cookies, which is just about where Obamacare has landed us.
Thus endeth the health insurance lesson for the day...... :wink:
 
clifford149 good news about your op leg! here is where some people overdo it, I'm thinking-- so save yourself and don't walk a 10K race just yet. Did you ever find your tinned plums? And how about the gym?
Kim22 you're sounding good too! :) will check your thread today, I sure hope :)
 
Hi clifford149,
Sorry it's been a while. You had asked if I had restrictions and well, sort of.....I had the posterior approach and the only thing my OS said regarding restrictions was WBAT. Now, I gave myself my own restrictions regarding the 90 degree rule but I often broke it because I wasn't really thinking about it and my hip didn't hurt but then I would realized afterwards that I broke "the rule" and vow that I would try and do better. The thing was, if it hurt, I didn't do it. Regarding sleeping, I am naturally a stomach/side sleeper. I would start out on my back with the operated leg elevated on the pillow. Then somehow in the middle of the night I would turn over on my side, reaching to pull the pillow with me to keep it between my legs. After about a week of this, somehow I ended up on my stomach, operated leg still on pillow and elevated. Remember, I have had no trouble sleeping so it was all done while I was asleep and I was okay. No pain, slept beautifully. Please, don't hate me because I sleep (LOL!). I have always been a heavy, sound sleeper. I don't even hear the babies cry in the middle of the night - it drives my husband crazy!
I do hope your sleeping issues get better! Did I read something about you had a nightmare about breaking the rules? I will often dream about what I was last thinking of before I fall asleep. I've had some crazy dreams that way too.
Hope your recovery is progressing upwards! Sounds like you are doing great. :dancy:
 
Hi zauberflöte...still waiting to buy the plums......went to the gym....but most of the leg machines are likely to breat the 90degree rule.....but did upper body and the walking machine.

@tea cat.....thanks..what does wbat mean? Otherwise making good progress
 
Hi Teacat

Very interesting I had posterior with 100% weight bearing allowed....but also had to follow the 90 rule....your i
Os. Appears to be more flexible...strange?
 
Teacat well, I DO hate you for sleeping like that, so there!:whistle: :loll: I have never in my LIFE slept like that.....
clifford149 yay gym. You have to promise to tell when you get the plums and what you did with them and post a picture please LOL
 
Hi zauberflöte and Teacat...

I must agree tea cat I am jealous....all that sleeping...its not fair....I am going tomorrow to aSda. owned by Walmart...surely I will get my plums tomorrow?
 
clifford149. Hi its the thread gatecrasher! So good to hear that you are making an excellent recovery. My op was same day as yours but I think I would collapse if I went near any gym . The very thought sends me running in the opposite direction (well walking very slowly and still on crutches). Lol.....anyway good for you well done .
 
Dear clarabo.......thank you for your comments.....my op was one of the textbook easy ones....hence the relatively smooth recovery....so please don't go near a gym....this was my second visit...in the first I was wary only getting on the walking machine at 2.5 km per hour.......I avoided the cycle and leg machines...today the cycles are still too daunting...easier break the 90 degree rule but I did manage the leg machines...I put all the weights on minimum = 5 lbs....and then slid on the seat...they all slightly reclined so no breaking 90....so managed glutes...hamstrings and quads...the good thing using the walking machine is you can easily hold on and set a very low speed with no worry of tripping over....
 
My op was a wee bit more complicated I think . Having old metal n stuff in there that needed to come out . probably needed a bit more hammer and chisel work maybe that's why I am struggling a bit with excersises in comparison with yourself and others. Think the gym can wait .
 
Dear clarabo......so you have had a revision/replacement....that surgery has got to be more intense.....so please be patient all the folks here will support you........clifford
 
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Kudos for going to the gym! Don't think my OS would clear me to go just yet. I'm just looking forward to outpatient PT. I'm with zauberflöte, I want to see pics of the plums!

One thing about my deep sleeping is I will often have something like night terrors. I don't remember them at all and it usually happens when either I'm under a lot of stress or if my husband rolls over in the bed at the precise time I'm in a certain cycle of sleep. It sounds worse than it is; I'm not screaming or anything. But I will sit up, eyes wide open and will see things that are not there. Usually it's something I'm afraid of like bugs, snakes, creepy crawlies, sometimes a figure of an unknown person and I will be telling my husband how afraid I am and asking doesn't he see it/them (a couple of times I have tried to get away only to wake up in the bathroom). He assures me nothing is there and I lay back down & close my eyes. I am asleep during this whole process and I don't ever remember it. It usually happens once or twice a month. It's weird because I never did this before I got married. I know because I had roommates and no one ever said I did anything like this. When I was a child, I used to sleep walk.
 
Teacat it is SO comforting to hear that you don't remember your sleep terrors. My younger son had them till he was 9. As a baby, he'd scream for 45 minutes at a time, often twice a night, and his breath would smell strange, he'd stare at me with (almost literally) demon-possessed eyes, and the muscles in his back would crawl under my hand as I held him. As he got older, they quieted down, but he still had them into his teens, as mumbling fits while asleep. Once I went into the hall closet to get a towel, and there was a puddle of pee on the floor. We finally figured out that he'd gone one door too far in the night, and thought he was in the bathroom.... that was kinda funny, but he didn't remember it at all of course. According to a very good book I read on the subject, you can make a child with night terrors into a sleepwalker just by setting him on his feet during a terror-- so your behaviors are related. I feel for your husband...
 
zauberflöte I can't imagine having to watch my child go through a night terror. It must have been so hard on you! It is so fortunate that we don't remember them! Although I've never screamed (and I've read how some people do) my husband says my heart is racing and I'm visibly unnerved/shaking. He says the pitch of my voice is different; almost child-like. At first he was completely freaked out but when he figured out that I was still asleep during the process (even though my eyes were open) he figured out what was going on. Then he would try to engage me in conversation during an episode which would seem to frustrate me. Now, he is more annoyed that I have woke him up.
 
Teacat yes, it was till we found out what it was, and then the only really hard parts were the losing even more sleep (they would happen shortly after I'd gone to bed (if I stayed up waiting, nothing... till i gave up and went to bed...), and then again about 45 minutes after the first one finished.), and the hoping big bro would not wake up. Big bro doesn't remember them-- he slept well as a child, but now they have switched sleep roles LOL. Younger one sleeps like a rock, older one has primary, secondary, and probably tertiary and quaternary insomnia LOL.
 
Maeve said:
Without Health cover the op, hospital etc are all free. medicare covers everything except rehab but no choice of Dr, date, hospital etc.
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This didn't apply to me Maeve. I went under medicare, and the only thing I had no choice about was the date. I was put on the waiting list on 28th November 2012, and had op 5th March 2013. Naturally I couldn't go private hospital, but I had a choice of two hospitals and went to the hospital close to where I live.
 
Thanks for that info Allycat. The wait wasn't too longbwhich is great.
 
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