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Hattiecat I couldn't get out of bed at all the first day of my RTHR in September. Kept getting dizzy just sitting up. Had to either go to the loo on a commode, or go by commode chair to the loo....awful! I remember watching my roommate going to the bathroom on her walker and wondering if I'd ever be able to do that. Once I got up the next day, I was terrified of putting my foot down...was just toe touching! My roommate and the PT kept telling me to put my heel down...it was hard. Then I felt so uncoordinated trying to figure out the sequence of move the walker, then the op foot, then the other foot. Amazingly, slowly and steadily it starts to come along. Sounds like you are slowly on your way. Hope that the nausea is being helped with some meds.
I also had a second hip in waiting. I had my first op in mid September and my second just over a week ago, Nov 16. I tried hard not to think about the second surgery, and gave my total focus to my first surgery. It is hard when that second hip is painful. Hopefully with the pain meds for this first hip getting the surgical pain under control, you are also getting some pain relief for the second hip at the same time
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I worried a bit about how fast first hip would heal and all that. I worked on relaxing and not thinking about that, as it was making me anxious. It helped to put second surgery at arms length, relax, get the rest (elevating and icing), doing the walking only (no PT exercises for me), to allow the soft tissues structures to heal. Although a very active person, I really took the slow and steady approach to healing, and it is amazing how it unfolds...if we just let it. Doesn't mean to say I didn't get impatient and frustrated (all normal), and thanks to everyone here, and the information given to us once on the healing side, it has been a better journey for sure.
Be kind to yourself and know that slow and steady does work!
Wishing you a restful night