RTHR (anterior) on Tuesday 4/23, surgeon said it went “perfectly”. A little excitement in recovery as I suffered an extreme drop in BP, it took about 4 hours there and a trip to ICU to get it stabilized. My poor husband was in the surgical waiting room for 6 hours with not much info, thanks to propofol I guess I don’t remember much of it. Anyway, i got stable and transferred to the regular Ortho floor by 8 pm, even got out of bed and did first PT that evening. MorePT and OT yesterday morning, discharged by 10 am and home by noon. Kind of a whirlwind adventure!
I’m on a walker for 2 weeks per doctors orders. My hip feels perfect, some bruised feeling in quadriceps, and a distinct sharp burning pain about 1” lateral and parallel to my incision when I walk or completely straighten that hip joint, or doing my butt-clench exercises. The dressing over the incision and visible skin looks fine. Internal stitches pulling? I slept great last night at home in my own bed, napping a lot today. Icing and exercising between naps.
I’m on a walker for 2 weeks per doctors orders. My hip feels perfect, some bruised feeling in quadriceps, and a distinct sharp burning pain about 1” lateral and parallel to my incision when I walk or completely straighten that hip joint, or doing my butt-clench exercises. The dressing over the incision and visible skin looks fine. Internal stitches pulling? I slept great last night at home in my own bed, napping a lot today. Icing and exercising between naps.