5 weeks post op

Thank you Dot, will certainly wait until I see my consultant before I actually drive, but it did feel good to sit in the drivers seat and press the pedals lol xxx

Thank you brisk walk, all the best to you xxx

Thank you Ann and yes I am resting now xxx

I too am on day 10 I managed to walk round a discount store called lathams I am now tired just watching ghost adventures on really on sky and I am going to record a program called my ghost story as I think I will be in bed by 10pm

I will take some cocodamol when I go to bed

Hi Jill, thanks for your good wishes.  Ahhh another Nadine, there are more of us nowadays as the name is a bit more popular.  Thats is brilliant that you are on one crutch around the house, I didnt manage that until 3 weeks. 

Hope your good progress continues

Nadine x

Hi Hailea,

Sorry to hear you are struggling.

As I have a tummy problem I can't take strong painkillers, so was only taking paracetamol for a couple of weeks and only had the odd one since, so no problems there.

Hope you improve soon.

Take care

Nadine x

Thanks nadine.

I am only struggling because I need my right side doing as well  and both my knee and my hip have become extreemly bad since having to compensate for the left side being done. I have to wait till september till my consultant will do my right side. I am hoping he will get me into hydrotherapy before much longer. I won't see him again now till June the 8th which is 8 weeks post op so will have to see when he says then.

Hi Anne, sounds like you are doing fine to me.  Once I got to this week I seemed to improve much more, so who knows what you may be doing by next week.

Thanks you anyway, my partner keeps saying he is really proud of me (she says blushing slightly) lol xxx

So he should be- I think mine will be glad when he has to do less cooking and feet washing!

You did well with pain killers too - I'm still taking paracetamol and separate codeine 3 times a day. Still that's one dose less than last week!

Hi Anne, two weeks post op and I am now back doing the cooking.  My other half has trouble doing beans on toast!  Only had help with drying my feet for two days after leaving hospital as I now manage to shuffle around on a towel after showering.  He still has to put the stockings on me and does take the dogs for a walk twice a day so I am trying not to complain!  having read others experiences I feel I am very lucky in how I am doing and not even taking pain killers anymore.

That's great. I've now done a meal but finding the standing makes my hip ache so I won't be rushing to do lots just yet. I can't shower as mine is in the bath so am stuck with strip washes and a perching chair. just over two weeks to go to my post op meet with the surgeon and I hope I will then be able to bend to do my own feet and tie laces! I hope I make sufficient progress in those two weeks.

I was wondering when - if ever- I'll be able to tie my own shoelaces and cut my own toenails!  Seriously, though, I couldn't manage to do my own toenails before I had the op but I found a very nice chiropodist who does home visits and I'll contact her when I need my toenails done probably after my follow-up visit with the consultant at 6 weeks. 

I can't see myself putting the special stockings on without help or doing the injections into my stomach, But what are husbands for? Mine has been brilliant, even puts up with my moaning and ferries me to coffee mornings and book group meetings - not areas he has any interest in.

Hello Mary.  I have just managed to to both week 9.  Still not comfortable but just about manage.  I could do them pre op

xx

My toenails getting a bit longer too but hopefully will last till after the consultant visit on 9th june or I will be having to have a chiropodist like you. My partner will wash feet and change compression socks but i don't think I can ask him to cut toenails!