Christmas Holiday - will website be closed?

hi derek

Do we all belong to AA? - Arthritics Anonymous?

I think that my knee and hip will last me out:-)

My back is my problem and I am seeing a neuro surgeon on Friday.

What and who is the moderator..and very grateful I am that he/she is about..who started this amazing site does anyone know??

Alice A very grateful hippie

Sorry to hear that. All the best for Friday

Hi alice,

Don't worry alice I will be glad of someone to talk to when the family are all arguing amongst themselves

What  a lovely girl you are..I am not miserable and now so used to it..just bits of twinges of sadness when I see families..but I will have special food and nice bubbles to drink and watch what i want on TV.

Look forward to jokes and posts over the festive period  from happy hippies and even ones than aren't...

Alice

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Alice

Nobody has referred to me as "girl" for years - that has made my day as I am 68!

Alice, this is how I figured it out when my son died, there

are more sad people in the world than happy people..likewise

there are more people alone at Christmas than with families..

this thought strengthens you.

we do not want pity, but we do not want to feel alone,

and as we have this site we are not alone.. We just need

the moderator to tell us when he's off. I think his name is

Alan.

Cathie

I was in hospital recently and a night nurse I had been speaking to earlier came out and said that she had just been reading my notes and could not believe that I was 80. She hoped that she will look as good at that age.

 

I noticed when my husband was in hospital how lovely

the nurses were with him! You men are still charmers even

though 80. I'm 79 and didn't get that treatment!

how long is it since your hip op? It should help support

your spine.

to Derek from Cathie ( and husband )

That's nice to hear.

Cathie. How sad you have lost your son..I am not as sad about my husband's death now as it is 14 years ago but we had only been married a year and 2 days..very sudden and such a shock but nothing would compare to loosing your child.  Your post does indeed give me strengh and I am ok really...I will log into this site and speak to the hippies. 

Good for Alan and this site.

Alice

I am 67!!  I am def still a girl! ( in my mind)

Alice

Not had the hip op and probably never will,

I had perthes disease as a child and was told that I would be crippled with arthritis by the time I was 35. It has never happened although I do get the odd poblem and my X-Rays look bad but they are surpised by my range of movement and ability. 

One consultant in 1995 said that I would probbly never need a hip replacement. The next one said that I would one day but not yet. The last one two years ago said if he did a hip replacement I would be back to complain that it had not cured my problem.

 

If you've got to 80 without problems you'll probably

be ok. Xrays don't show pain, and something can look

bad on an xray without causing pain. I read that hip ops

are patient driven, meaning the patient dictates when he

can't wait either by lack of mobility or pain.

I don't know what Perthes disease is, does it stay with you

for life?

Hello Alice, I am sorry for your loss.

Mine was 34 years ago, and I survived, surprisingly. What

carries me forward is appreciation of what I had, and what

I still have,and though I don't have faith, I won't

dismiss hope as it implies possibilities.

Hippies are always there for support, it will be my first Christmas

on the forum, or any forum. I wonder if the other forums have

the same loyalty element.

Cathie

You can Google perthes disease. It is a childhood disorder which affects the head of the femur . In Perthes disease the blood supply to the growth plate of the bone at the end of the femur becomes inadequate. As a result the bone softens and breaks down .It is not clear why this blood vessel problem occurs in the femoral head. It is not due to injury, or to a general blood vessel problem. A child with Perthes’ disease is usually otherwise well. Over several months the blood vessels regrow, and the blood supply returns to the ‘dead’ bone tissue. New bone tissue is then laid down and the femoral head regrows and remodels over several years. This is similar to how bone reforms and remodels after any ‘normal’ fracture or break to a bone, but takes longer.

The treatment then was putting the leg into traction and that put me in hospital for two years.

Perthes disease is not really as a disease, but that was the name given to it when it was first discovered.

It is a shock when we catch our reflection in a shop window and wonder who it is:-)

 

My first Christmas on any forum too Cathie..what a marvelous thing!  Yes was sad ofcause when Dave died but what was sad was the such little time we had married ...only a year and 2 days..so it is the future we had planned and didn't have much past as only knew him 3 years. But was very lucky to have met him and married him.  I had been on my own since first marriage broke up some 20 years earlier. Watching Jungle Book and singnig along with 'The Bare necesities'....

​Alice

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One of my grandchildren who is in fact a twin was diagnosed with Perthes when he was 7/8 and now several ops later aged 12he is playing football with his brother in a high standard junior team. 

So for youngsters now there is real hope

 

That's the age it usualy happens at. I had an argument with a van the year before and dislocated my hip so when it  became painful and I started to limp a year later it was a first put down to that.

It is very different now.I recovered well but had a couple of years wearing a caliper after being in hospital. After that it did not stop me from doing anything. I read a lot of books in the time I was in hospital.