👯‍♀️👯‍♀️Hips and Knees part 4 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️

You'll need two picker ups. The extra one is for when you drop the first one!!

I am neatly 2 years post hip surgery but still use a long handled shoe horn; they are so useful. I actually have a small collection, plastic metal long short medium even a tiny one to fit in my bag if I am looking for new shoes.
One for the car ( after walking) one upstairs one downstairs by the front door snd another by the back door…. I think I must have more than anyone I know. I really don’t need anymore but do recommend as very useful.

AmKeeping these and my two picker uppers because I know they will be useful in my fast approaching older age

I had my THR nearly two years ago , I’m very short so I get get my shoes on pretty easily but the picker upper is so useful still for things that fall under the table or in corners so tricky to reach .
I am about to have an injection into my other hip late Feb hopefully it will help more than the one I had in my other hip. 🤞

Hi Susie I am very short too but still find the shoe horn collection useful.
Good luck with the injection, I wasn’t lucky with mine either but that spurred me onto deciding about the operation.
I have had 3 quite heavy falls over the last few months and my newish hip isn’t as good as it was. Had an X-ray recently which was clear which was a relief, but the hip has not been the same since the falls, (or should I say trips?). I am seeing a physio next month to discuss.

silverlining the problem is that an xray will not show a minute movement of your new hip which could make such a difference to you. The cement-like stuff holding it all together also gets slight movement and at the worst, a crack.

How do they test/check for the scenario you mention charleygirl?

Woukd that be mri or scan?

No show on active, third try.

Giving up for now. ‘‘Twas ever thus.
Have a good day all

When I was working scans and MRIs had not been invented so it was surgery but only when the surgeon decided to revise the hip. Nowadays I do not know but the physio may be able to help you.

The main thing at present is to stop you from falling. I am amazed you have not dislocated a joint.

I am too, two of the 3 falls were really heavy.
I will talk to the physio who seemed very nice.
I have said this before I know but in this area we can self refer for physio which is really useful, might be worth checking if anyone here thinks it might help.

I have also fallen 3 times silverlining - we do seem to have similar events , I remember we had our hips done within a week or so of each other . My last fall was pretty awful and I really damaged my face and wrist . I went to A+E because I thought I may have broken my wrist but all OK just badly sprained. But the doctor told me that my new hip joint was probably the strongest joint in my body now. Interesting why we have both had bad falls though…

Yes Susie our ops were close, and strange about the falls. I had them all in the space of 2 months on two holidays abroad. Also managed to break two toes in one of the trips, not falls. Rather spoiled my holiday S happened on the first day,
Although the hip X-ray doesn’t show anything untoward it still doesn’t feel right to me but luckily isn’t stopping me walking etc (I do love a good walk),

There are Falls Clinics in various parts of the country. I am unlucky there is not one here but maybe if you ask your physio or ring the GP surgery they may know.

A friend of mine is inclined to shuffle, forgetting to lift her feet.

I cannot walk far when I am out but when I am out I walk slower than I would like but this has saved me from falling in and out of doors. I make sure there is a wall or something to grab on to- I no longer like the great outdoors.

I had a THR in December and am now walking quite well, despite a problem with my back. I was in hospital for 3 nights. I also have two picker uppers and when I go out I leave one in the porch, because I dropped my door keys the other day and struggled to bend enough to pick them up.
I have a gadget called a leg raise, a bit like a dog lead. I hold one end, my foot goes in the big loop on the other end. I didn’t think of using a scarf! I also have a gadget like a pair of braces which clip onto my knickers/trousers and can be pulled up easily. God bless Amazon!

Glad all went well Redcar and hope your back gets better soon.
Don’t overdo things as it’s early days.
Your gadget for pulling on trousers etc sounds interesting. Glad it’s helping,

Redcar I look for the simplest and cheapest first!

One thing I learned the hard way was not to leave keys in the front door lock. I fell, broke and dislocated my ankle and I had mega problems letting the ambulance staff in. They could easily have opened the keysafe box outside if they could have inserted the key in the lock!

I also dropped my keys when coming home struggling with a crutch, bag and keys soon after I had my THR done and couldn’t bend down to pick them up! Panic set in and then remembered soon after DH died, I had a key safe put in. So I was able to open the safe, get the spare keys , open the front door and got my picker up and picked up the keys I had dropped. Then I put the keys back in the safe, shut the front door and collapsed in the chair with a cuppa!!

I was able to bend post THR if I used what was called a 'golfers reach'. That is operated leg straight out at the back and lean forward to pick anything up.

Aveline you took the words out of my mouth- that is exactly the way to pick up a dropped item, but be careful if you tend to veer to either side like me. This old age lark is not for wimps!

My balance is shocking I plan to stand on one leg at the sink etc or while the kettle boils but always forget.

I would stand at the sink on one leg but please not close to a boiling kettle in case anything goes wrong and it is the first thing you grab out of panic as it is easily done.

That’s true….

Just bumping this a bit as we are sliding down to the bottom of the health forum, where we may just disappear altogether so greetings to all hipsters and kneeknockers hoping all are doing well.
Have a good weekend everyone.