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Thank you, ByGosh, for the posting info. (You'd think by now I'd have gotten the swing of it, but I am a forum idiot.) Any luck on the groin pains? They are SO annoying and so unique in how debilitating they can be.

Hi, Jellybean ... I'm a little "PT shy" right now, doing minimal on my own, not eager to get back into it formally until the knee is better. Yes, an office/desk job, though there is a lot more walking around than people would think. Not eager at all to get back as it is long hours and very stressful and the people are quite nice but a little lalalalala when it comes to hip and knee replacements; everyone has a story about how "fast" people "completely recover." Lots of magical thinking. How about you?
 
Ooh yes know what you mean about people's opinions. I called the kids school to ask about the kids sports day, instead of having it at their school they are having it at the athletics track in the next town which involves a ten min walk to bus top, bus ride at busy time of morning and then ten min walk to athletics track, then who knows what when I get there the activities will be spread out and we have to follow the children around. Gonna be a great day for me I am sure, hubby will be at work that day. Am dreading it already. Of course the 'welfare officer' at school knew people who had miraculous recoveries and probably could have run laps around the athletics track the day after their op.
 
Peaches. Thanks. I think I read somewhere that by the third or fourth week all the precautions start to grate, and they sure do. If it wasn't against pollution control laws I"d like to have a bonfire for the toilet seat riserand mid leg pillow. I know it would smell awful, but it would be so satisfying!
 
Peaches,

I don't recall who posted about forgetting they're cane, but I recall it's a good indication that your about ready to go without :), the poster I recall had gone shopping and hung her cane on a rack so she could try a handbag on her shoulder that she was thinking of purchasing, and she ended up walking away without her forgotten cane...by the time she realized it 45 minutes later and of walking without it, she didn't bother going back to get it where she had left it.
 
Hello Peaches and jellybean and all - Oh, those stories of the quick recoveries annoy me. At 5 weeks post-op, I was standing on the sidewalk in front of my house when my neighbor drove by and asked how I was. When I mentioned that I still had some pain she said "Oh, I would've thought you'd be all better by now." I wanted to kick her, but would've hurt my hip!! LOL :heehee: At 5 weeks? After having both hips replaced? Pleeeze!?

jellybean The athletic day sounds like great fun IF you're up for it. My goodness, that's going to be a long haul for you! Can you at least get a ride to avoid the bus? Try not to do anything that's too much and that may start things acting up on you. I think I overdid early on, and am now 11 weeks and nursing groin pain that has stopped my recovery in it's tracks. Of course, everyone is different and I hope it works out well for you. I know there's a lot of mom instinct to be there for the kids, no matter what!:)
 
ByGosh. I posted elsewhere about a guy who sometimes plays tennis with my husband, who swears he was back on the court in two weeks. I have visions of slamming the racket down on his head if he mentions this to me!
jellybean. I hope the sports day isn't until the end of June? That sounds really difficult.
 
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LeeApril26, maybe you'll get the last laugh when he has to go in for a revision :rotfl: .
 
LeeApril26 I'm not meaning to sound sexist or anything, but ---- MEN! They just gotta brag! :) Some of them must feel that their masculinity depends on NOT being at home, recovering. IDK I guess we 'ladies' are just too Victorian (aka Pride & Prejudice) and delicate to start slammin' tennis balls down the court backhand! LOL :rotfl:
(I just had to say that after all of the talk about the English TV shows that was going on here. I'm still dreamin' and drollin' about Colin!..) LOL
 
ByGosh. Good theory. My other one is that women start doing too much in the house too quickly. I have been cooking since week two, with my husband doing the bending, and cleaning up as much as possible. We are already working out. And, I agree with you about Colin Firth!
 
Hi, jellybean ... just caught up with your recovery, too. Glad the nosebleeds are gone. Hope the backache is, too. That's great you are baking cakes and getting out a bit. I am in my 5th week post-op and am still doing bird baths, so hang in there. Knee is still bum, so I haven't done as much activity as I would have ordinarily. Will ask the PT today about it. Definitely am postponing outpatient PT till my 6-week checkup with the OS to see what he says. It's back to work in a little less than 2 weeks; desk job, but walk around the office a lot. Let us know how you are doing.......

I have to come back to finish this post as I need a little more shut-eye. I was again waking up all night long, which I guess is par for the course. Which reminds me, LeeApril26, about your hub's tennis pal. I guess men can't be expected to do much around the house since they are too busy "jumping onto the court at 2 weeks post-op" grrrrr .... I will help you bash the racket over that guy's head if he says one word. :)
 
Re: stairs. In my apt. bldg. there's a fire stairwell, and that's where I practice toddler-style steps. I do a half-flight (6 steps; these are somewhat high steps, IMO) up and then down. It's kinda dark and I don't like going up another flight, as going down is scary to me (even pre-op I have always been wary of stair steps, especially like these and in the subway; don't know why ... fear of falling, I guess). Anyway, I can easily and painlessly do a flight up and a flight down two times in one fell swoop. I do that twice a day. I've been doing this for about 2 weeks. Yesterday I tried to do 2 steps up like a grown-up, holding on to the rail and my cane with white knuckes. I could do it, but when I tried to come down, my right knee on my op side hurt like hell. So I think I have knee problems unrelated to the hip and those problems have been reawakend. I am not doing anything exercise wise till I talk to the PT. And am icing it. Sometimes I think even a novice like me can tell the difference between pain from doing something new (like those bed exercises they give you in the hospital) and pain as in "something is not right." I am lucky to not have stairs I really have to deal with at home, such as the rest of you.

TeeEm ... jogging indeed. Please. Yes, @bottomhollo's "revision" retort is perfectly apt!

I wonder if these people think they are being helpful when they talk about all the stuff they could do in the blink of an eye ... or if they are just so thrilled (despite maybe being a little declusional) they don't realize how detrimental it can be to those who are not on the same exact road to recovery they are on?

The phone rang yesterday and I could not get to it fast enough (and my apt. is small), so it went to voice mail. And my friend, whom I hadn't heard from since surgery, left a message saying "I assume since you didn't pick up you are out and about and trotting around the city." :}
 
Peaches said:
"I assume since you didn't pick up you are out and about and trotting around the city." :}
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Peaches Yeah, trotting around the city, my foot. Give her a virtual slap for me. JK LOL
Peaches - Even in your dilemmas, I find your outlook to be refreshing, humorous and always interesting to read. Dark stairwells give you the heebie jeebies? Gee, can't imagine why! Fear of falling, sure, but I'm more like fear of lurking, as in who else may be here?? :shocked:
Your right knee must be taking the brunt of your weight when you come down the stairs like a grown up. Keep up the toddler style until you get it sorted out. Probably strengthening the quad muscles at the front of the thigh would help the knee. But that's up to the PT or OS to determine.
Ice is always a good idea. At least it numbs the pain, also reduces the inflammation. Also elevate the knee. Is it swollen? You're still early on, you can even take the pain pills yet. No harm in that!
Keep posting, I like hearing what you're up to..:) Hope your knee feels better soon. TTYL
 
I have both forgotten and misplaced my cane. Last night, I had to get up to go to the bathroom and I could not find my cane. It was frightening. After I have been sitting or in bed for awhile, I am wobbling and stiff. My cane was in the bathroom, not by my bed. I did lil hops on my good leg to get to the bathroom. I also keep a cane in my car, and never go anywhere without it. We never know, when fatigue, pain, spasms, etc will strike.
 
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Peaches I don't like going downstairs on long staircases such as subways etc. Its a combination of balance problems and not liking heights.
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Im like that too. Makes me wonder if the feeling of going to lose balance and fall was caused by my hip being unstable long before I knew there was anything wrong with it.
 
Peaches, Elosarabrab TeeEm. I just returned from my first outside PT session. I told him I could go up the stairs normally but did the downs stairs toddler-style and have been since a couple of months before surgery. He explained that going down the stairs normally takes enormous muscle control, and as the hip muscles strain to support the declining hip you lose the control though you're probably not aware of it-you just feel unstable. So, he said we will work in those muscles. teeEm, it sounds like our hips were having problems before we had active symptoms.
 
LeeApril26
LeeApril26 said:
He explained that going down the stairs normally takes enormous muscle control
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That's interesting to hear him say that. And it sounds perfectly correct, that we feel unstable. I can remember hanging on for dear life when going down the stairs pre-op. And that explains so simply why the stairs are such a challenge to us post-op, too. Those muscles that have been weakened by a bad hip and traumatized by surgery, aren't that strong or stable afterwards. It takes awhile to build them back up and get our balance right again.
So don't fret Peaches, you'll get there - 'big girl style' both up and down when you're legs are ready.:)
 
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