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

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My goodness Charleygirl you don't have your troubles to seek. What a rotten time you're having.
Even going private you might need to book in for an op after April. There is now a lot of pressure for operating theatres and after care in private hospitals.
Good luck with everything though.

silverling unfortunately it could change. The worst part is going from acute hearing to being unable to hear a doorbell or a telephone. Somehow my hearing has improved but I am now wearing hearing aids and they have to be rechargable because I am partially sighted due to Macular Degeneration, so almost ready for the scrap heap. I could do without the hip problem.

Hasn’t stopped me putting on weight though…..

Oh my goodness Charley. That’s a lot to deal with. Hip and tumour, thank goodness it’s benign but hope you get a date soon.

I have also been waiting since April for an operation date. . TMJ stuff. Cant open my mouth more than an inch. Awkward.

As I am 81 now and living in London I will not get on a NHS for years so I will have to go privately. I am sorting it out mentally and want to do some more research on the surgeon I have chosen. I would not want surgery until at least April of next year.

I also have a benign brain tumour and have been on a list since May so I know the hospital but as yet I have no surgeon or hospital number. I have given up mentally with that one.

Definitely not!

Obviously glad about that as I wouldn’t wish necrosis on anyone.

Charleygirl, it’s possible my trouble was the necrosis I had, I asked but got no answers other than “ it’s in the bin” and it still bothers me at times.
How and why did it happen. How common is it, I don’t think anyone on all the nearly 4,000 posts we have had has said they had necrosis.

If you can't even lie in bed then surely you need to start things in motion Charleygirl.

silverlining please do not remind me- I cannot have a lie-in because hip pain drives me out of bed. Being 81 I was hoping it would "see me out" but as the near future is not an option I will have to do something about it but not this year.

Things are getting better Redcar, or if not now, then soon. Honestly.

aveline I do know what you mean - and that’s what I was thinking. Don’t really need as many painkillers now, which is good.

Well it's exercise Redcar and you will feel the benefit both ways (if you know what I mean!)

Having a less positive day today as I’ve been in and out of the downstairs loo all day! Good thing I’m not at my own house, as I don’t have a downstairs loo there. The laxatives are working, sort of! I’m getting more exercise though, which must be helping. ftm420 my DD has a dogwalker who takes the labradoodle out for an hour at lunchtimes. Yours will need to walk on hard surfaces to keep her claws short.

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Do you have a dog field nearby? We take the granddog to one which is securely fenced, for 30 minutes run around when we have her to stay. She is a rescue and her recall is hopeless.

Charleygirl5: I don't mean now as it's too soon, but when? My DH has taken over dog walking duties but does the absolute minimum and the dog is used to running and walking a lot with me. His claws are starting to get a bit too long!

Redcar: glad you're back. I need my other hip done at some point & had issues with painkillers too. I would not wish my 1st 24 hours on my worst enemy, so really hope they do it differently next time.

In a way it’s a bit like childbirth, you think you will never forget the pain, never do it again, but you do forget because you have the reward of a sweet baby, or in this case , another new hip hop.
It won’t be long before you are hip hopping along. Congratulations 🥳

Redcar So pleased to hear that it’s all been done. Every day is one closer to getting back your pre hip pain life and yes I think we all think we did well at the start. I did too until last week when I found a diary I kept pre and post surgery.
I had it in mind I recovered quickly, walking after a week, marathon after 3, you know what I mean….until I found the diary. It all came back to me,.
How could I have forgotten the medical team which came hot of foot to my door after I had symptoms of fever and swollen feet and ankles and other stuff….
The team consisted of one young man on his motorcycle. He was very kind yet I had wiped this whole drama from my memory.
Take it slowly and you know you will be fine. Well done.

Hello lovely dancing ladies. I came out of hospital yesterday lunchtime and am now at my elder daughter’s house, feeling a bit like a beached whale. I thought that I was much better last year when the first hip was replaced, but as I shuffled to the bathroom in the night it all came back to me, that I wasn’t better last year at all. Pain relief still not sorted, I can’t take OxyContin and don’t like Tramadol, so it’s just ibuprofen and paracetamol, and just grin and bear the pain. It will ease in time. Need to sort out the digestive system, but I know that will also take a bit of time. I’m walking along the hall several times a day and feel a bit more positive for doing so. Thank you for your concern charleygirl and silverlining.

Oh I have just seen that the dog is quite large at 30 kg.
Personally I wouldn't risk it.

I suppose it depends on the size and strength of the dog . Even if small and well behaved you would not want to get tripped up by the lead in the first months.

No, but common sense says no. My reason is if he is on a lead, and sees something that he/she fancies, he may bound away with you attached, wrench your new hip from its socket and then at worst fall face down. Very unpredictable.