Hi,
@orange, I'm a day younger than you hip-wise, but quite a bit older in real years
and agree with you about how helpful this site has been. Even though I have a UK nursing background, I still needed lots of support in the first week after discharge. Now I have to be very careful not to join the 'over-doing it' club!!
Like you, I'm only taking paracetamol during the day, with 30mgs Codeine Phosphate added at night, and managing constipation with prunes!!
I find that, being a morning person, that's the time that I can do too much pottering about to 'tidy up' as the 2 men in the house don't even notice the mess
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I also have 3 different places that I sit during the day- a recliner with a thick foam pad on it to make it higher for sitting and getting up, a chair in the kitchen with arms and a chair with arms near my computer table - I carry a round foam cushion on the seat of my wheeled walker between these 2 chairs!
I was sent home with 2 walking sticks and I use these around the house, the wheeled walker is left over from 2014 when my husband fractured his pelvis, as is the foam cushion.
I also go back to bed and read with my legs elevated for a couple of hrs each day--it's getting easier to stay awake during this time! (and I found myself desperate to lie on my side last night at midnight 'cos of restless legs, but the feeling passed and I went to sleep in my back)
I see my surgeon at 6 weeks post op so hope he will say I can side sleep & drive, then I will be getting back to my normal independence.
Onwards & upwards,
Christine