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THR Sarak - There's Life After a Hip Replacement

I appreciate your suggestion, but what you've suggested won't work for me - I can't sleep unless I'm so warm I'm about to start sweating. And if the covers aren't firmly attached, I'll twist and pull until I wake up cold because they're not covering me anymore. The key for me last time was to gradually get back into it (I'd slept in a recliner for over a year the first time around). Gradually I'll strengthen all of the muscles so that turning over is no big deal and hope I go back to sleep quickly in the interim!

I'm glad things are going so well for your recovery! My incision's btwn 3 and 4 inches long and completely covered by panties (at least hip huggers or granny panties). I looked at anterior but changed my mind when I saw info on SuperPath - just liked the logic of the approach - and had someone here in St. Louis that does it. I know I probably am lucky to some degree - I either have a high pain tolerance or am usually just too busy barreling through life to notice it unless it gets really bad. I'm kind of like the puppy that runs around and around until it drops and begins snoring midactivity.
 
I had posterior a week ago and 4 laps down hall and back and im done, and I was pretty fit starting. sounds like quite a procedure .
 
Hey you :hi:
As long as you're getting sleep, the bed will wait. I slept in a recliner for the first three weeks.
It wasn't bad but after I got back into bed, that wasn't bad either :sleep:
Hopefully you're feeling rested today. You had a looooong one yesterday!
@SaraK
 
@Layla - as I told someone recently, after sleeping in this recliner for most of the last two years, I haven't decided whether to burn or bronze the recliner. The spring broke on it just before the first surgery so it won't stay closed. I almost got rid of it but was glad I didn't when I needed to start sleeping in it again. In either event, tonight should have shorter periods of being awake each time since I wont have to fiddle with the cuffs to avoid tripping over the cords.
 
So much talk of snow and ice (the bad kind, not the good kind) on here lately, I thought I'd share this chart for those in the US. While St. Louis is Midwest, it's probably in between the South and the Midwest. I did live outside Augusta Georgia for a couple of years and remember getting out of school for 2 days for what I'd now consider a minor ice storm. I also remember careening down twisting uncleared mountain roads when we lived in Germany.
 
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Not a world record but made it 3 hours tonight. Surprisingly, the most comfortable position I found and first and got the first hour out of was sleeping on the front part of the operated hip. That worked for about aan hour. A pillow between the legs isn't a good long-term solution because I'm so active at night (surprising, huh?) But it did work to buy another couple of hours. Now back to the trusty recliner for a little more sleep!
 
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Are you getting enough sleep throughout the night that you feel energized during the day?
You know that's really a silly question come to think of it because you seem to have enough
energy for three of us!
How's work today? Hopefully CHILL.....
Nice quiet night planned on the couch, off to bed early.....right :rotfl:
@SaraK

PS there is some truth in the snowfall reaction comparisons!
 
I never have been good at getting enough sleep - especially during the week. Sometimes my Energizer Bunny routine keeps me from falling down!

I'm a night owl in an early bird world. So I try to avoid too many morning commitments on the weekend so that I can sleep in then. (I see my trainer at noon every other Saturday and have to get up "early" to do that!)

You'll be happy to know I decided the band Fri isn't hip-worthy (Sat is another story) and, now that I can start the night in bed, I can go to sleep before my teenager's 1am deadline to get off the computer on Fri and Sat nights.

Work today not too bad. Plenty to do but nothing screaming at me!
 
WHOA! Saturday just called and is afraid of what may be unleashed!! :rotfl:
@SaraK
 
@Layla - and you don't know the half of it yet! But I'll beg for forgiveness rather than asking permission!
 
I'm listening to Benatar sing "Hit me with your best shot." Been a long time since I've heard it; I forgot how much I liked Benatar. Perfect, I especially like the line, "Knock me down it's all in vain, I get right back up on my feet again." I'll take it @SaraK. Are you like my husband and know all these words to the songs?
 
Great call on the song @SaraK

After reading the above post and seeing her photo
I'm convinced @zinnia is a 42 yr old masquerading as a 82 yr old!
We're onto you now you hot mama :loveshwr:
 
@zinnia - No, if I'm lucky I remember snippets of lyrics and can then Google to find the rest. The irony is that I'm on my 6th MP3 in 10 years but have never had a song on any of them and I very rarely listen to music on the radio. Of course, that also explains why few, if any, of the songs are recent.
 
Last day of not so "part-time" work before I get a weekend to relax. @Layla, don't laugh so hard, I do sometimes relax in between my bouts of manic activity. Sandwiched in there this weekend, I plan to get a mani/pedi, go to a friend's holiday party (she's only made 70 dozen Christmas cookies - about 10 different types - and I hope to sample each one) and bingewatch the Crown! And I'll find something to do on Sunday as well, I'm sure.

I feel utterly human (in a good way) this morning. I slept for 5 hours in my bed and another 3 in the recliner - heaven! Of course, the last hour was because I messed up my alarm (Freudian?) but I at least woke up in time to get my son up for finals and to get on my 7:30 conference call. Swelling and stiffness also seems better this morning.

I hope everyone has a peaceful, pain free and relaxing weekend!
 
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Happy Friday! @SaraK Loved that song too in its day.
Mani / Pedi at the salon.....relaxing and feels so good to re-fresh.
I hope you have an easy Friday at work and a fun time at the holiday party with friends
shoveling down cookies and binge watching The Crown. I'll have to start watching that,
you're the third I've heard mention it this week. I think Berber and Dana before you....
Yay on the decline in swelling and stiffness! Sleeping for 5 hrs in bed, an improvement
also. Things are looking up!
Enjoy your day :flwrysmile:
 
Hope your weekend is super sweet.
I'm picking up Walmart donations and then I suppose or to make some amends with hard headed father. Was a little sharp with him few days ago, and he's not happy with me. Been a long long week.
Thank goodness there will be sunshine. I'm going to find me some.
Hope you do too:SUNsmile:
 
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