marcopollo your wife won't be doing a whole lot she wasn't doing anyway, unless you are the main chef, house cleaner, and laundry-doer. Help with showering, maybe, and with dressing, maybe. I had an anterior approach, which is a little quicker recovery in the early weeks, and was confident to let my husband leave town for 2 days in the second week, and 3 days every week so far after that. I'm feeding cats, fixing my own meals, doing a little laundry once or twice a week, have done a little very light cleaning, all at 3 weeks and one day. I could if I had to cook a full meal, but would have to take a nap after for about 3 hours! Read all about "Energy Drain" in the library here-- it's very very real. If your wife thinks you're cute when you sleep, tell her to keep her phone handy LOL. You will do a lot of it!
Please tell your wife for me that one of the most important chores she will have is to keep track of when and how much pain meds you take, especially while in the hospital. My husband did that for me, and took notes when people stopped by for whatever purpose, and it was invaluable. The rest will not be difficult at all. Support, decision making when your brains are fried, etc. And a nice massage here and there
We have some casual friends where he just had both his hips resurfaced (second 3 weeks after first) and he is about six weeks post op. We have talked a few times and Beth and I think we should have them over to talk turkey. Demystify it for both of us.
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think I have read on here that resurfacing is totally different than THR, so your friend's turkey might be your, um, marigolds-- not at all alike. I'm going to tag
Josephine for you.
Stick around and play while you're waiting-- it will take your mind off
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