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6 week check complete!

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linzh1974
linzh1974

Just got back from my 6 week check...

I can...

Drive

jive (attractac) 

have a bath

have a tattoo

go work ( not going though until 1st September)

swim breaststroke ( no medical evidence that it's bad for hip unless I'm an Olympic breaststroke swimmer and bend knees to my chest and legs at 90 degrees)

my penguin waddle will go with more walking

happy bunny I am!! 

 Before and after pictures below! 

Next appointment 3 months!

linzi xx

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  • mic71403
    mic71403 linzh1974

    Posted

    Sounds great...what tattoo do you plan to get? Mic x
    • linzh1974
      linzh1974 mic71403

      Posted

      Well, I've over 40 tats, I've got three planned, an extension on one I've already got which are hibiscus flowers, a Hamsa (eye tat in a hand) protection is the meaning, and one for my hip, artificial joint in Latin and the date of my op in Roman numerals.

      linzi x

       

  • jhb513
    jhb513 linzh1974

    Posted

    X-rays look good. Just came back from my 6 week appointment myself and all you have said I was told also. Really great we are oceans apart and have the same x-rays and same instructions. Really amazing isn't it? I need a lot of work on my walk though as it has been years since I walked correctly. So glad you wrote as it is encouragement for many still in the first few weeks that feel as if this could go on forever.
  • Howeller
    Howeller linzh1974

    Posted

    Hi Linzi

    I am impressed! I am 5 weeks and am back at the hospital on 17th; I am hoping to get the result you got today. There are so many bits of different advice from different consultants that I am praying mine will be like yours!

    Nice pix BTW biggrin

  • linzh1974
    linzh1974

    Posted

    Oh and I forgot to mention, airports! Yes I could set the detectors off, they don't issue cards now as airport security goes up and down with any  terrorist threat! So I need to inform them I have a hip implant and they may or may not search me,

    airports can adjust the sensitivity of the detectors...

     

  • neil5421
    neil5421 linzh1974

    Posted

    Fantastic Linzi!  Really pleased for you.  I know how you feel cheesygrin

    You can get on with everything!

    Great pics.  Here's mine .....

    Neil x

  • Guest
    Guest linzh1974

    Posted

    Whoop whoop Linzi 😁

    Cool tattoo ideas, am thinking of getting them done as well, with the addition of 'No. 1' and 'No. 2'

    Not sure yet about the numerals or dates, but something will go there 😉

    Had a tattoo done in Bali as well, day before we left. Had been itching to get another one done for years, this was the time for it!

    Can't help but notice the piercing in the 'before' pic though, didn't they harass you to get rid of it? They did me..

    • linzh1974
      linzh1974 Guest

      Posted

      I had to put a plastic retainer in my belly button piercing, I bet that was an experience to get tattooed in Bali! X
    • Guest
      Guest linzh1974

      Posted

      Ah good one, that is of coure a good option.

      Getting a tattoo in Bali indeed is somewhat of an experience smile

      I was lucky though, we had met a guy living there and covered in tattoos and when he heard I wanted to get a tattoo done, he actually went out of his way to make time at the place he always went to. 

      He wanted to make sure that if I were to go and get this done, it would be in a place where they worked sterile.

      And they did, it was almost the exact same as over here in Holland. Apart from one thing though, the price. That's about half of what you'd pay over here.

      After all, I had to have something to do while the ladies were doing stuff I can't do at the moment? ;-)

      Hug,

      Arjan

    • renee01952
      renee01952 Guest

      Posted

      what did you get ? can you show us ... and you Linzi ... or do you think Alan, our moderator will disapprove?
    • Emis_Moderator
      Emis_Moderator renee01952

      Posted

      Hi Renee,

      Not at all biggrin

      As long as images/pics are not offensive/advertising etc you can post what you like.

    • Guest
      Guest linzh1974

      Posted

      Show and tell will be a little tricky with the 3 pre-existing ones, as I'm at work and can't very well sit here taking my shirt off taking selfies! :p

      But, I can describe those:

      Left upper-arm: Crying closed eyes, soon to be covered up in a halfsleeve containing the image of the fish I included (or close to those anyway, still making that design work completely..)

      Right uppar-arm: Wolf howling at a full moon, bit artsy depiction, but by now getting old (and will be covered up at some point as well).

      Right shoulder: Face of a female (warrior) elf. Reminder to never let go of your imagination and stay young at least in your mind. smile

      New addition to the group is the dragonfly sitting on the leftside of my chest, attached as well!

       

    • linzh1974
      linzh1974 renee01952

      Posted

      Thank you! Yes I've got a few more that my daughter designed, I need to photograph these and up load them x
    • Guest
      Guest linzh1974

      Posted

      smile

      I'm very happy with it alright hahaha smile

      Like your dreamcatcher a lot by the way!

      Found how I want to commemmorate this year's scarring as well btw..

      Right hip will get: E5ACEF

      Left hip will get: 19D3D1F

      It's massiely nerdy/geeky, but they are the dates in Hexadecimal :p

      Binary would be a bit longer than the actual scars themselves smile

      All I need to sort now is the font I want them in as well as size

    • linzh1974
      linzh1974 Guest

      Posted

      I'm thinking these...

      again like you not sure on the font 

      linzi x

    • neil5421
      neil5421 linzh1974

      Posted

      Linzi

      It should be "iunctura artificialis"  - In Latin the adjective typically comes after the noun.... and iunctura not iuncturam (which is the wrong 'case').  Artificialis kind of means 'belonging to art' but the other word you might use, 'factitia', means more 'made up', so you're probably best sticking with the first idea.  (I did Classics at university.... & just didn't want to see you with the wrong thing on you like you sometimes hear about people doing!)

    • carol75411
      carol75411 neil5421

      Posted

      I wish I could be so knowlagable. Did you go to public school? Xxx
    • briskwalk
      briskwalk neil5421

      Posted

      Dear Neil,

      I did Classics at uni as well... and the right translation is :"Facticia coxendix". Coxendix=hip bone  facticia= made by a human being, not by nature. "Facticia" is the correct spelling, not "factitia".

      Instead of "facticia" you could say "manu facta"= hand made!

      Sorry about the correction, but I hate to see mistakes in Latin or Ancient Greek.

      All the best

      Ella 

    • neil5421
      neil5421 briskwalk

      Posted

      Ok Ella

      Happy to be helped wink

      Although Linzi had said 'joint'  - yep hip/coxindex is more specific

      Factitia, facticia - these are just alternative forms.  the one with the T is likely to be mediaeval.

      A shame I sold my Lewis & Short many years ago.... !

      Thanks

      N

    • neil5421
      neil5421

      Posted

      oops coxendix 
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