@Lerwick8 I hate to be the bearer of bad news.... you get a matched pair of boots, whichever hip you get done. You are way younger than I was for my first hip, I bet you'll be safe from any new creepies
sorry couldn't resist he is SO CUTE!
@MyAussieGirl Mag, bigger car is certainly better, but it's the fit of the seat that is all-important to me. If it's too scooped, I be miserable! If it's too hard, ditto. However, we have meds, and I made it home, 1 1/2 hrs, in a rental car which unfortunately turned out to be less comfortable than the one from home we were originally going to use. I do love to feed others, it's the cooking that seems to have lost its appeal. I think what I'd like is to not have to worry about half of the stuff that I worry about, and then I'd have time to enjoy cooking again. My sister is a year younger than me, and she has an empty nest, no pets, and cooks a very delicious meal daily, at the drop of a hat.
Today will be a regrettably-not-here-much day. Too many things to keep rolling re travel Thursday, and of course I've procrastinated while relaxing my nice hip which is bearing with me pretty well through all this! So, Near End Of Week 5 report:
-Last night I only used ice for a short while on going to bed, rather than the usual of putting it on for the last few hours of being in bed. No harm done, last night at least! It would be nice not to have to come downstairs to retrieve ice at 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning and get all awake-y.
-When I feel like it, I can walk nearly a mile (of intentional measured walks) per day, half in the cool of the morning and the other half before bed. Or weather is going to change drastically tomorrow, and Thursday (when I won't be here...) will be low 80's and drier. So far most of my walks have been sticky and sweaty, even though I only stroll so far. Last night I couldn't tell I had an op hip for the first several hundred feet of the walk!!!!!!
-I have this little overeating issue....keep telling myself, "tomorrow". Well we all know how that goes...
-The numbness that was so weird from August 2 onwards is still a little bit there in my lips specifically. I'm not sure if my brain has stopped paying attention to it or if it's really fading! It has zero effect on my playing, which is a HUGE relief! I was also having hand and finger tremors and twitches. They are not so bad right now.
-Twice the other day I discovered that it was easier to get into the car normally, only very slowly. Getting out remains awkward! My cane sits in my car, used for pulling the door closed.
-the hip feels very solid, gotta love that!
-I am still taking advil and tylenol interleaved for pain, not all of it in my hip, either....
-the most irritating left-over pain is a movable (didn't we used to spell that "moveable"???) groin thing, semi-sharp ache that either comes and goes or stays. Very strange. Outsied of thigh very tender/sore to the touch/light pressure. I gently rub upwards a few times a day, seems soothing.
-My tape is STILL married to my skin! I've cut off a total of about 1/2"sq so far. It loves me, and it wrinkles up the incision/scar which I don't think is beneficial.
-So, at the very top of the scar, the incision is still not totally closed-- I think I have to put a bandaid over it to protect it from the undies binding, which will slide around right there.
- This incision is about an inch farther laterally than the other, which is dead center. I mean to ask about that at next visit Sept 20-somethingth. I'm curious.
-And I looked at my xray again for giggles, and the cup for this one is much more closed than the other, which is not at all closed in shape. Huh. i mean to ask about that too. I know they are a different maker, but that can't be the whole story!
Long update but hey.
Take care everybody and enjoy your week as much as possible!!