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Pain meds not in your chart?! They just sliced through flesh and bone...I‘m shocked.
Thankfully the Aleve is doing the trick, but what are you to do once you're at home if your pain ramps up? I hope today is the day they cut you loose, Jojo, but with the time difference between us, wondering if it’s too late in the day for discharges.
Maybe you should start making a nuisance of yourself by wearing out the call buzzer and they’ll let you go :heehee:
Keep in touch, we’re here for you. :SUNsmile:
@JojoOso
 
I agree with Layla, @JojoOso - not having orders for pain meds so soon after major surgery is a BIG problem and needs to be remedied before you go home! In every hospital I've ever been in nurses always have had ways to contact patients doctors/surgeons to get updated orders or report problems.

While Aleve may be OK for now I suspect (having been there, done that, got the scars to prove it) you will need heavier medications at home.

Yup wear out that call bell and insist the nurses contact your surgeon STAT!
 
Hi guys. Thanks for your concern. I did manage to talk them into giving me pain meds so I'm all good now. I'm going home tomorrow so I'll talk to the surgeon before I leave to discuss pain management drugs. They don't give narcotics here at all so I don't have to get any prescription. All other meds are over the counter here so I can get anything else I need without an issue.
But I have to say, I actually did okay yesterday, just using Aleve so we'll see.
I'll keep you posted. Thanks again for your support.
 
Feeling good today. I'm ready to leave. One of the older gentlemen patients stopped me while I was doing my corridor circuit training :heehee:, gazed into my eyes and said "You're young, you're tiny, you're skinny and you're beautiful - why are you here?" . I'm 50, grey haired and limping along as fast as I can go but I'll take a compliment like that any day of the week. Ooh yeah. I'm fancy.
 
Ah the oddities of Russian life. They've stopped giving me knives and forks, only spoons. Call me crazy, but I definitely feel like meatballs deserve to be eaten with a fork. Maybe I'm considered a hostile patient because I asked for pain meds and they're eliminating any potential hazards. Curious.....
 
It's the People on medication must eat with blunt instruments Rule:rotfl:

Maybe all the forks are dirty?:shrug:

Hope you will be on your way home soon.
I laugh when you said your husband was nervous when he thought your discharge was to be sooner ...I'm the one who cried when they had me go home two days after bilateral....I never knew my husband to be overly nurturing, but they do worry for us especially since this was the first time my husband has seen me physically vulnerable in that way.
It's a recovery journey... For all involved.
 
@Mojo333 Yeah I totally agree. I have spent my extra days in hospital coming up with a roster of duties for them. They are going to get the shock of their lives. My husband is great with the cooking but the housework leaves much to be desired. I've two strapping young teenage lassies to do that. My youngest told me on the phone yesterday that she forgot they had to do things like laundry, cleaning, vacuuming etc. So I guess they think we live in a self-cleaning house. They're precious
 
@JojoOso If anyone invented a truly self cleaning house, they'd be a billionaire by the time the patent was finalized :rotfl: I hope you have a comfortable trip home and arrive to find the household troops have gotten things all tidied up for you!

Bless the older gentleman for his lovely compliments to you - such a day brightener I'm sure :)
 
I feel like I'm waiting for that particular bus that comes about once every Easter. They took bloods this morning so I guess they're waiting for the results. I'm packed, dressed and ready. Locked and loaded, baby. "We gotta get out this place, if it's the last thing we ever doooooo...." sing it with me!
 
Got my marching orders. I'm outta here, baby. Got all my prescriptions for pain meds sorted out. I don't know what that nurse was in about because every other nurse has given me pain meds on schedule. Anyway, I'm ready. Now just waiting for my husband to come and collect me. I can't wait to get home.
 
Glad to see you are on your way home today.:egypdance:
Now your song is stuck in my head:) :-) (:
 
Man, it's kinda hard to get settled at home. In the hospital your entire life is squished into 10 sq. m and is so easily accessible but everything is so spread out at home that if you forget one thing at one end of the apartment then you either do without or trek on back again to get it. The family are trying to help but I feel like I'm already pissing them off. We had at least 4 family meetings to discuss my situation before the operation. I tried to make it abundantly clear that I would need pretty much constant help but now that the reality has hit, I don't think they're ready at all. But I'm digging my heels in because I refuse to hinder my recovery because of their ineptitude. They will learn. Poor things :heehee:
 
Oh dear - that's all you need just post op. Can you put things that you need within reaching distance?

It does get easier once you establish a daily routine. Just a bump in the recovery road. Hang in there!
 
I feel it’s difficult for our loved ones to view us as vulnerable. Some of us are nurturers by nature, others, not so much. I second, Jaycey’s, idea about gathering much of your most used items close by, within reach. I used the end table next to my recliner for my water bottle, iPad, phone, chargers, chap stick, magazines, etc Also kept my walker within reach and my grabber to grab anything I dropped, which was a lot. I never felt as clumsy in my life as I did during early recovery and seemed to drop everything! I think once you get a routine mastered, you’ll find you need less and less help. Take heart, it seems to happen more quickly than we imagine. Hang in there, brighter days are on the way. :SUNsmile:
@JojoOso
 
Thanks guys for your support. I will move the side table from the hallway beside my chair and stack all my necessities there.
I'm definitely the nurture type but my kids were always brought up doing household chores etc so that's not new. My daughter told me that it's very stressful for her to realise that I do, in fact, need constant help. While I recognise this, I do feel it's a bit more stressful to have one's leg cut open, bone sawed off and implant hammered in but hey, that's just me. Ahem. Anyway, I set them free for an hour so hopefully their drooping spirits will be revived once they've had some time with their pals. It's just me and my dog now. Actually, the silence is rather nice. And I'm feeling quite good, despite my only pain relief being Celebrex.
 
@JojoOso I think for most kids having Mom laid up is a major eye opener. No matter how well you tried to prepare them for reality after hip replacement, they seem to think there's a Mom rule that says something along the lines of "Mom will never, ever be sick for more than an hour or two". They probably translated your "I'll need constant help" to mean "constant help (every couple of hours maybe you'll need someone to get you a beverage) for a day but then back to normal". They also are getting a reality check of just how much you have always done for them! They will probably grumble and will also manage just fine for the duration of your recuperation.

Yes stock up your recovery spot with essentials as best you can. And/or figure out a carry system that works with walker or crutches - I had a bag that attached to the front of my walker that worked well ( I did not have kids at home but did have my cousin with me for a week after surgery and a housemate who was home in the evenings).

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