Good morning everyone, Visgirl well done for passing your seven week check with flying colours!
I had mine on Monday and now have photos on my phone of the X-rays they took of my new right hip and pelvis. The thread on the screw going up into the bone in the pelvis is very clear!
When I went in to see the doctor (not my surgeon, one of the surgical team) there was my new hip on the screen.
He said they were keeping an eye on me, and my other hip, so I will be seen again in six months and beyond. That was reassuring.
However, I was somewhat surprised when he said I would have to keep my knee lower than my hip when sitting down for ever and would always have to sleep with a pillow between my knees when sleeping on my side.
He said you won’t be able to put your socks on or tie your shoe laces unless you can manage to put your operated side foot across your other thigh.
When I had time to think about this after my appointment, it all sounded very restricting and rather depressing. As if none of the hip precautions will ever go away. I am hardly going to go mad, I’m always a very cautious person!
A couple of days ago my Physio came on her last visit to bring me a new walking stick, which she adjusted,
and then got me to go for a short walk on the pavement outside.
I mentioned what the doctor had said on Monday. She said you won’t be be able to bend over and pick anything up from the floor, you must always use a grabber. The 90 degree rule will always apply. She then demonstrated that, if I had to lean forwards, I must stretch my operated side straight out at the back, as it were. She told me I would never be able to kneel or go down on the floor, not that I was planning to do either.
I have spent the week feeling somewhat deflated with what seems like all these ‘permanent’ rules. That is why I haven’t felt like posting before.
What about all those bottom shelves, spaces and cupboards in the house. Will they be out of bounds forever? And am I stuck with raised toilet seats forever? Is helpful creaking DH for ever condemned to do all the bending that goes with running a house? The thought of him sorting out my shoe cupboard is doing me no good at all!
I am in need of some reassurance this morning. I thought that after the first twelve weeks, life might start to get crack to normal, Thank you.
Best wishes to everyone on this thread. Pinch, punch, it’s October! Have a good weekend.
for creating the first thread (which I’ll link to shortly)
