Home from hip op

You are right - I must not overdo it - but so much that I want to do! It is I suppose a good sign that I want to try and do these things as before I was just tied up in keeping the pain at bay. The evenings are still the worst time, but I am consoling myself that this groin pain cannot be anything too serious or it would not fluctuate - better in the mornings and worse as the day goes on. If it were not for that pain, I would be really motoring here.

Hope everyone else is making progress.

Pleased to hear you are all improving and feeling better. I am 4 months on from my first knee replacement and feeling pretty good. Waiting now to have the other one done. Hopefully around Christmas / New year. I'm sure once that is done I will feel the real benefit.

Pompa, keep doing your exercises and that knee will eventually bend a little further. I used to sit on the edge of the bath and use the floor tiles as markers, so that I could see any progress. Each day I tried to slide my foot back a little nearer to the bath ( not sure if I have explained that very well !) It certainly wasn't without any pain or discomfort but seems to have worked well for me.

You sound much better Mishap, starting to live life again. As Janerowena says, careful you don't over do it. Remember it's not just your hip, other muscles have not been used to the full for a while and will be weaker than normal. I overdid it on Saturday, walking to Docs for my flu jab, suffered the next day, set me back a bit.

Overall I'm getting on well, reached a bit of a plateau atm, improvement is slowing down, but that is to be expected. Walking without a stick is improving my gait, knee still a bit unstable, feels as though it gives way occasionally. Finding bending my knee past 90deg impossible and can't lock knee straight yet, not sure I will until swelling goes down.

I overdid it last night, stood up too much serving tea and coffee and washing up, leaving my tea partner to do the rushing about but even so am paying the price today. So please be very careful on Saturday.

Little bits of improvement here - but it still feels slow! Pain is reasonable in the mornings but builds up as the day goes along - I am keeping a record of the painkillers I take as I keep forgetting when I can take next! But it does mean I can see from the record how things change from day to day. I succumb to the stronger painkillers later each day which has to be a healthy sign. I am pottering around, doing the exercises like a good girl, and making meals - oh and working on projects on the computer.

Tomorrow I have to take a rehearsal here in the evening - so I am planning an afternoon sleep first. Then that eisteddfod day that I have organised locally on Saturday - this is what has been keeping my mind off the pain! It goes on all day and I am performing in several ways in the afternoon. I do not think I will stay the whole course, but am determined to enjoy at least some of it. I will not be able to manage the portaloo, so my OH will have to drive the few yards up a steep hill home for me to wee!

How are you going pompa - how many Only Connect walls have you solved?

And I do hope that you are on the mend now janerowena.

Thank you for asking. I'm glad you are feeling better at last. Today is so much better, I have lost the stick several times but coped without feeling miserable, and haven't been desperate to take more tablets than I should. I can even carry heavier things, as my hand doesn't hurt as much. Taking the support off isn't as painful, either.

DBH is running me up to WI tonight. It's my turn to bake and I am so glad I had so much in the freezer, all I have had to do is make a spicy buttercream. I need to find someone else to serve teas and coffees, though, otherwise it will all be on the floor.

How are you doing today janer? Have things settled down a bit? I do hope so.

I had a much better night last night - woke several times as always (because having to sleep in an uncomfortable position) , but not instantly reaching for painkillers each time as before. I managed to go all night on 2 codeine. I have people coming round for a singing rehearsal this morning - first time I will have sung for nearly a month. I am prepared to require a snooze afterwards.

The shoulder bag is an excellent idea. I do have a new fabric shopper thing which will be ideal.

No, no x-ray, apparently they wait for three days to see how you get on. And it is easing up as the swellings go down, I can bend my left knee now which is making life so much easier. Even if I have chipped something, they would probably just tell me to carry on - I have done it before.

I keep leaving the stick behind and it's so hard to feel the pain and realise you have to go back for it. I have discovered that my old wooden airer makes a wonderful walking frame!

I can manage a mug now, but not a heavy full kettle, so DBH will have to fill it tomorrow morning for me as our kitchen is quite long and the tea-making area at the far end.

Yes, it is a potty design. It just looks like a pattern, not a step. So tempted to go and paint the edge yellow one dark night.

Any plastic bottle would suffice, it doesn't need to keep the contents warm, just stop them from spilling whilst to move about.

All I need is a flask that has not gone mouldy! I'll have a dig around and see what I can find.

I have a shoulder bag which does the rounds with me and contains my limited life. I even put plates/sandwiches in cling film/yoghurts and the like in there in order to transport my tea from the kitchen to the living room.

janerowena very sorry to hear about this, what a nasty fall. Did you get an X-ray? You ought to, it's easy to chip a bone like that. Do see if you can get some physio too.

You make your tea/coffee, pour it into a bottle or flask, then pour it out when you get back to your chair, necessity taught me that one.

So sorry to hear about your fall janerowena. Has it all been x-rayed and checked out? It is awful to have such a fall - I know that I still get flashbacks to when I fell from a boat and broke my foot - it shakes your confidence. These things happen in a flash and it is a real shock to the system. Poor you.

And as for these fancy pavements.........in our main town they did a fancy pedestrian precinct with stripes down it at the sides - what is not clear is that those stripes gradually rise in places into a kerb and there have been numerous accidents which the council refuse to recognise are due to this potty design.

I do hope that you make a speedy recovery. I endorse pompas recommendation of ice packs - and keeping the limb raised - this will reduce pain and swelling.

I look forward to hearing that you are a bit better tomorrow and so agree that those lucky people who have never been on crutches have no real idea of the limitations that they impose. You may be able to make a cup of coffee, but how do you get it to your chair/table?!

Hope you feel less sore tomorrow, janerowena. Take it easy.

Janerowena Poor you.

Sorry to hear about your accident Janerowena, you will have to take more water with it in future.

I'm past the sympathy stage now, at the "stop moaning" stage.

When I had my hip done and was on two crutches for 6 weeks (they did not glue it) I found a shoulder bag that I could carry things around in (DW was working then), such as a flask of water to fill the kettle and my tea in the same flask when it was made. Impossible to carry very much with crutches.

Ice (frozen peas) helps relieve pain and swelling, I am still using it twice a day.

I am strapped-up in sympathy with you and pompa at the moment. I had a nasty fall just after my last post on here. I went into town and twisted my ankle as I stepped down a kerb that I hadn't seen, one of those that gradually turn into flat pavement. I feel on the ankle, bashed both knees and one hand - the one I need to hold the walking stick...

A lovely, lovely Lithuanian family hauled me up and almost carried me to the Drs, they gave me painkillers and I sneakily took more from my bag, sat in my car for half an hour to get over the shock and then drove home, very slowly and carefully. I now have an ankle the size of a Bramley, left knee the size of a large grapefruit, bad bruising on my right knee and a black right hand. So I am just starting to get very, very frustrated as my stick falls on the floor and I struggle to get off the sofa, and I crawl up and down the stairs only once a day each. DBH will be back at work tomorrow so I am hoping for a miracle overnight. I find it's making me a little stroppy. He has never had any broken or sprained limbs so hasn't a clue. He knows I can make a coffee, but not that I can't carry the kettle from the sink. Little frustrations. And even an ankle bandage sock is hard to put on over a swollen foot, heaven only knows what a longer one must be like.

Just the book - don't get over-excited out there!

I am p***ed off with the slowness of the recovery from this op and each day hope for a breakthrough. If I could just take some proper pain relief without being pole-axed then I am sure things would progress better. I downed some codeine in the night as I was in pain and this morning I am like a sloth! I feel as though I am walking on cotton wool through a fog.

Maybe tomorrow will be the day!

Thanks for the smiles and flowers.

Hope you're feeling a bit better today Mishap and

pompa You seem to be getting into your stride now (see what I did there?)
Good for you!

I am following this thread with great interest.

Like janerowena I also worked in horticulture and remember digging out and barrowing away loads of clay, keeping up with the males! It makes my joints ache to think about it now.

I live in a small cottage with narrow, curving stairs, on my own. I am dreading having a joint operation. I have knee and hip problems on one side and chronic sciatica on the other.

Well done Mishap & Pompa.

You may well be right, I think it was a menthol cigarette.

Wasn't that 'Cool, clear Consulate', pompa?

When Linda asked what I would like for my 70th birthday, I showed her a web site for visiting Swedish massage which had pictures of the young ladies in their work! wear. She lust laughed, that laugh that says "it would kill you of I did". looks like I've lost it (if I ever had it that is).
Do you remember the cigarette advert in the 60's where a couple were walking along a mountain stream and the commentary was "we enjoyed our Peter Stuyvestant together" (may have been another make.) Our uni lecturer at the time said that give it a few years and they would be saying "We enjoyed our Durex together" how right she was. We see stuff advertised that we would never have imagined.
So don't be too flippant about sex being delivered via Tesco etc. You will be able to order you toy boy/girl for the week, to be exchanged with the next delivery. So long as they would do the housework & ironing my wife would be first in the queue.

I was just wondering the same? And can you get it on prime delivery? If we book it on groceries can we get it cheaper in bulk?
I think GNHQ should investigate on our behalf A!

(Good job the mumsnet crowd are safely tucked up in bed now )

Mishap Is the sex available on Amazon or just the Book?

I am glad you are feeling a bit more upbeat.