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I have a hollow too.....outside of left thigh.

Great update Alan, by the way my son has his first season ticket for Forest.
 
Give it a little time.....it will fill up. Wish I cold tell you it will fill with rock-hard muscle. But....alas....that's probably not gonna happen.:th_heehee:
 
On the other hand, it'll be a great place to rest a can of Coke when you're lying on the settee watching football! :th_heehee:
 
Hmmm... I feel like I'm just touching bone! But, I never had any muscle there to begin with :DOH:...

Can't help you there Alan, although I'd be happy to donate a few pounds of the "other stuff" to help you out! Got plenty of that, LOL!
 
So, at least 3 of you have a hollow at or near the operation site.

Dave from Central USA, my sympathy for your hollow is tempered by your infelicitous typo of my alias. It 'snot funny. As for how it happens, the replies were not that helpful. My theory is that the muscles either side of the cuts have not properly reunited yet, and may never do so. In the meantime, it has not been possible to exercise the interrupted muscle and as a result it has wasted away. So only complete healing of all the wounds is likely to bring about any sort of improvement in the surrounding muscle structure. I'm with Jamie on this one. It aint going to happen, not fully anyway.

Sorry about your hollow too, Lisa. Your son's season ticket reminds me of my brother's first grandson. "always smiling, he is; such a happy little fellow."
I replied:"That's because he's too young to understand that he is a Nottingham Forest fan. Things will change when he realises the dreadful truth." I was wrong: he converted to his local team, Reading. We had some fun in our early days. At the age of 12, I walked with my brother from Sutton in Ashfield to Nottingham more than once, because we couldn't afford the bus fare.

And Janet, I am overwhelmed by your offer to become an adipose tissue donor. Thank you. I am really moved. But I don't know what East Midlands Airport customs officials will have to say when they see the package.

As for your suggestion, Jo, that my hip socket should be a football drinks holder, very good, except maybe lager would be more appropriate, and only whisky can mask the pain of watching Nottingham Forest.

A piece of good news, at least I hope it will be good, is that I am to become a grandad for the fourth time in a few weeks. That should take my mind off 'orrible operations.

All the best,

Alan
 
Alan,

Congratulations, No4! Wonderful. I have two very different scar sites, with a long hollow on the right side which fortunately looks like muscle definition. My surgeon, wonderful as he is, is obviously not much into dress-making as the scar on the left side starts and finishes in different places, and does not have a hollow! This is fine if you examine the scars individually side on. I reckon that all this scarring along with ever increasing deep lines elsewhere are things to be proud of (and utilise for lots of purposes - drinks holders included!) as they are maps of our experiences. I like maps a lot, particularly detailed ordinance survey maps, as they map the history of the land. We are all history maps in the making! :biggrin:
 
Alan, I think Dave's error was a simple typo which I have now corrected.

As for my comment, perhaps it was a bit flippant but I was trying to encourage everyone to make light of it! Actually what happens is that the surgeons might tie a suture over tight or unevenly or have removed a piece of fat for some reason. Hollows and lumps do occur for no particular or serious reason and certainly not because the internal tissues aren't healing together. They're much too careful with the suturing for that to happen.
 
Thanks for that, Jo,

Actually, I think you are very good at pitching the support towards the perceived personalities of the people who are looking for help and advice. Thank you; it is appreciated. When I was 15 I spent a whole year off school with rheumatic fever. I learned how to cope, mostly by trying to laugh at the situation. Now, 55 years later, I don't know any other way.

From what you say, it seems that my humps and hollows are harmless enough. They merely mean that my days as a glamourous male underwear model are drawing to a close, not surprising, this, in view of those days never having got started in the first place.

Anyway, people never seem to notice anything amiss about the way I walk. Only I know that I am not completely symmetrical. My left foot drags along the ground when I am tired and things start to feel sore after a long effort, or time spent on the feet. But I do manage to do a lot.

As for the forthcoming baby, 8 years ago E was born to our second daughter, unfortunately at more than 11 weeks early. So her introduction to the world was through the sides of a plastic incubator box. R was so frightened by the experience that she has waited all this time to try to add to her family. In the meantime she has converted herself from a geology lecturer to a junior doctor working in paediatrics. Just about the time of my THR her 2nd attempt miscarried at about 9 weeks in. So you can see that we have been, and still are, very nervous about the outcome of this 3rd attempt. It's supposed to be early October. We shall wait with all fingers and anything else crossed.

Watch this space.

All the best,

Alan
 
Alan, have you ever had any physio? I think maybe that's what you need to help you build up muscle strength and co-ordination. Speak to your GP and get yourself referred for some.

As for your daughter's sad experience, I do hope she has a happier outcome this time. When there's such a history, we always called subsequent arrivals "precious babies" and with good reason.
 
MONTH NINE

At the time of the operation I fully expected to be completely fit by now, but that is because at the time I didn’t have the benefit of the wisdom and accumulated experience of you good people on Bonesmart. So I am emphatically not cured yet. G asks me how I am today and I express the answer as a percentage figure. It took me 6 months to get to 80 % and today, just over 9 months I am on 89%. The highest I have been is 93%, at the beginning of August.

There are a lot of things I can do, but still a few things I can’t. I help G to keep her mother cheered up by doing her garden. It took some doing. In the autumn (fall) I tidied the garden comprehensively, knowing I might not be able to get onto it again until some time after the THR. This wasn’t easy because by late autumn I was using a stick to get myself around the plot. By April, still using a stick, but with an operation in between, I was back in the garden, pruning, planting and tidying. Movement got easier but is still not completely smooth. I am immensely proud to have created a really nice garden in such unfavourable circumstances.

As well as swimming fairly long distances I also take G caravanning and I have just returned from a week in the Portsmouth area, with her mum along for the ride as well. While there, I had all the fetching and carrying and tow driving to do. G does all the rest, she being a brilliant driver but nervous of the caravan. So I was proud of what I was able to achieve there, too.

So what about the missing 7%, you may ask. Don’t know, really; I just feel it is missing somehow. I can walk but I can’t walk briskly or normally, though we do manage to cover fair distances at pensioner pace. The operation site still gets sorer than I would like after the activities, and G says why not stop doing it then? Answer (a) I am stupid and obstinate, and (b) if I don’t do stuff, how will I know if I am getting better or not?

So you see from all the above that I am not well qualified to dole out advice to fellow strugglers, and yet I still do it. I suppose the reason is that I so appreciated the help that I got, that I feel a need to try to help others who are further back. Please understand that my only qualifications are that I have been through some of the journey myself and that I come from a background of being physically very active, with all the experiences that spring from that.

HIGHLIGHTS

Swimming in the sea last week. Tried with the wetsuit but at 17 degrees C, it was rather too warm so tried again later just with shorts. The waves were short and steep and I was rubbish at getting from one buoy to another. You are supposed to raise your head to look at the destination, but every time I did I was in a trough and never saw it.

Actually ran, well, jogged for a hundred yards or so. First time for more than 2 years.

LOWLIGHTS

I have depression in my medical record. It caused me to lose my job and take early retirement. At the beginning of this month a group of people I was coming to trust did something that upset me and I couldn’t pick myself up. My head wasn’t straight so my body wasn’t straight either. Mercifully it didn’t develop into a deep trough of depression, and I think I am nearly over it. But it was unpleasant and it brought back some unhappy memories. Enough of that. I don’t want to think about it.

While running, the following happened: when bouncing back up into the air some of my flesh was still coming down; when I was supposed to be coming down some of me was still moving upwards. Not good for running style. OS said I wasn’t allowed to run, except perhaps to catch a bus. As things stand at the moment, I will miss that bus. Weight must be removed!

Finally, sorry to those I haven’t been helping much. Now that I am back from caravanning, maybe I shall be able to do more.

DD2 has got 34 weeks into her pregnancy, which is 5 weeks longer than her first attempt, so fingers crossed that all will be well. The premature granddaughter is fit and well and gives her grandad the run around. If only he could run.

All the best, Alan
 
Hi Alan

Focus on the highlights and you will get there, nice to hear your new grandaughter is doing fine.
My daughter gave birth to a boy and he has developed problems with reflux which has caused a bit of concern but like you I have all fingers crossed that everything will turn out fine.
Jogged for a hundred yards that I can't do yet,I have attempted to play football with my other grand son and he kept on asking papa why can't you run anymore.

Anyway on to a more serious matter that all us blokes like to talk about.


As for your suggestion, Jo, that my hip socket should be a football drinks holder, very good, except maybe lager would be more appropriate, and only whisky can mask the pain of watching Nottingham Forest.

Saw this wee paragraph above and was just wondering if you were interested in taking Calderwood back. :hissyfit:
 
Alan

I think you are still doing really really well!

Blimey!

Swimming in the sea (in England!) Playing with grand children, driving the caravan etc......If I can get that far after my second hip I will be well pleased

Regards

Dave
 
I agree, Alan! I think you are doing really well. It's nice to see you back on BoneSmart. We have plenty of new members since you were here last that you can dazzle with your wit.
 
I'd be with Cappy! :beer2:

You sound like you're doing really well Alan. I think you are tough on yourself. I hope you manage to keep the 'black dog' at bay, he's a most unwelcome pet!

Love your description of running - you have such a great way with words.
 
Thanks, everybody, for your support.

Forbsie,

I think you maybe misunderstood me. I have an 8 yo granddaughter who was born prematurely by 11 weeks. She gives me the runaround.

Focus on the highlights and you will get there, nice to hear your new grandaughter is doing fine.

The new grandchild is not due for another 6 weeks.

No thanks to your Calderwood offer. We already have a numpty of supreme incompetence. McClaren.

Dave, Good luck with your second hip. I envy you and don't envy you, at the same time. Mine is yet to come but the left hip is OK at the moment.

Others, I love swimming in the open air but don't like feeling cold, so have trained myself to adapt to the cold, (a) by bathing in cold water as often as I can, and (b) by taking regular cold showers after gym and ordinary showers at home, This means that I walk straight into the sea without thinking about it. Anything below about 14 degrees C and I am as mardy as anybody else, hence the wetsuit.

All the best, Alan
 
Alan,

You are doing really well -- much better than I was at that point! I am at 14 months now, and I still have soreness if I overdo. We just returned from a trip to England, and I did a lot of walking in the Lake District. I had some tenderness in my hip, but I think some of it was adhesions breaking up because it was more surface tenderness. I also have that hollow you mention, so my modeling career is over before it even started.
 
Sorry Alan

Hope everything goes well in six weeks time.and the new grandchild gives you the run around as well. :th_heehee:

And I suppose I will have to look elsewhere to empty Calderplank.:sigh:
 
"Anything below about 14 degrees C and I am as mardy as anybody else,"

Alan, I haven't heard 'mardy' used for years - I love it!

Cheers
Steve
 
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