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joy92223
joy92223

Am actually feeling pretty fed up!! Fed up with not sleeping properly, fed up with hurting everytime I move wrong, in fact, pretty fed up with the the whole hip thing!!

Is just too long a journey to reach new lease of life!!

Fed up!!!!!

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  • Guest
    Guest joy92223

    Posted

    But it's worth it Joy, the further you get through the journey the better you will feel. The trouble is with this joourney it is such a big learning curve too, and you keep getting knock backs and ups and downs...... but it's still worth every minute of the journey and when the end of the journey is in sight you will have achieved the biggest hurdle you have ever jumped.

    Be fed up scream shoout bang your head, put it all on paper, get it off your chest......  you will feel a lot better and then you will take another step up the ladder... tomorrow is another day smilesmilesmilesmile

    Love and Hugs ((((((((hugs))))))))) Gill xxx

    • joy92223
      joy92223 Guest

      Posted

      Ty, I think Ive prob been home far too long!!!! Finished in July for summer hols, op on 1st sept. Extended school hols!!!!.
  • annone70291
    annone70291 joy92223

    Posted

    I'm 8 weeks out from a THR too. I can sympathise with the not sleeping properly. It's a real problem. But I am trying some Panadol Night Pain which is helping as it contains something to help you sleep. And, like you, I'm wondering when I'll manage putting my sock on again without using various odd pieces of equipment!

    I'm sure it'll get better! And although there's some discomfort sometimes that awful pain has gone. Onwards and upwards.....

    • joy92223
      joy92223 annone70291

      Posted

      I am being compared to people who, somehow managed to get back to work after 6wks!!! God knows how, just makes me feel like I'm playing on this horrible time!!!!!
    • annone70291
      annone70291 joy92223

      Posted

      Just remember that you've had major, major surgery. A friend was told that it would be 3 months until she felt reasonably OK and 6 months at least until full recovery. And some say 12 months. We need to cut ourselves some slack and be kind to ourselves.
    • joy92223
      joy92223 annone70291

      Posted

      But, nobody tells you this before!! I would have struggled on as I was, had I known it was going to take so long!! I suppose only thing I can be grateful for, is, I'm getting paid. Must be so worrying for those who aren't!!!!
    • heather717
      heather717 joy92223

      Posted

      Some people go ack to work because there maybe work in a office etc. I was off 14 weeks and I have just returned full time in the last couple of weeks. Still have problems with crouching down on the floor and not aloud togoup ladders and that is part of my job. But it will come so I keep saying to myself ha ha ha. X 
    • alice85142
      alice85142 joy92223

      Posted

      You are right.  !!  I asked someone why she hadn't warned me how low I might get and she said she didn't want to put me off...and another lady came to see me last saturday as is having her hip done today..and I didn't tell her either....i did say it is hard the first few weeks but she has a husband and daugher at home...and I also didn't want to put her off...!!

      ALi 2

    • kath98588
      kath98588 joy92223

      Posted

      I used to compare my recovery to others and it is so wrong.  You are unique and you will get better at your own speed.  I try to hard to do things and end up oin pain, taking it easy is hard but worth it.  
  • alice85142
    alice85142 joy92223

    Posted

    Hello..I was on this site prior to my hip op and now 8 weeks on.  I have not logged on for a couple of weeks but when I read your post I had to reply.  I get bad days too and a lovely nurse said it is the 'hippie blues'..It seems never ending..the sleeplessness the not understanding from others who say..'my you are doing well'..they don't see the frustration dropping things, trying to get shoes on etc etc.  It will get better for you.  How far along are you?  Many people on this site have been so supportive.  I am pleased to be back on the forum!

    Ali 2 

    • joy92223
      joy92223 alice85142

      Posted

      I thank you. I guess just feeling a little down. I'm seen as a hard faced strong women, but, this operation has knocked the stuffing out of me!!

      9wks tomorrow, I'm crawling up the stairs on all 4s, can get halfway in normal step, climbing over the bath to shower, in a crawl position, as for putting on socks??? Don't even go there!! Just fed up with it all!!!!

      x

    • kath98588
      kath98588 joy92223

      Posted

      Joy, it will come.  I use my grand daughter toilet step-up to get over the bath for a shower, I use my grabber to help with socks.  This op is so life changing and bloody frustrating at times, I am seven weeks post and the first few weeks I sounded like I had tourettes, my language was foul, I was never having the other hip done, but it does get better, just take it slowly and stop expecting too much too soon and you will get there, slowly slowly catchy monkey x x 

       

  • michael48232
    michael48232 joy92223

    Posted

    Hi Joy,I know and most of the Hippies know how you feel,we have been there and you think it must be you but wait and see how many reply to you and that is what it's all about caring about you.I would try a different routine at night,keep yourself busy,if you have an I Pad get your favourites on when you can't sleep,have a few nibbles and drinks at the side of your bed,keep exercising I know you don't want to but it will help you,get that chin up it does get better these days come to test us,so good luck and god bless Michael.
    • kath98588
      kath98588 michael48232

      Posted

      Michael that made me smile.  My son moved my bed the weekend for me and saked what was all the plastic bags under it.  lol,,,, I had to tell him they was for biscuits or snacks to carry to bed on my crutch for in the night.  I had magazines and a big jug of water and a bottle of squash for those sleepless nights,,, JOY,,, do the same x x x

       

    • joy92223
      joy92223 kath98588

      Posted

      My name is not working at the mo ( ask my partner)  wine is my choice at the moment!!!! Lol

      xx

    • kath98588
      kath98588 joy92223

      Posted

      I don't have anyone here Joy so I can cuss all I want.  My kids catch me sometimes when I am on a downer, but they cant do anything other than make me a cuppa.  Tell you something, I dont drink as a rule, but I have taken to having whiskey in my cuppa, only ever had it Christmas morning.  Now I have had it morning, night time, in the night time and in my hot milk at bed time.  I have had to stop as near a bottle has gone.  

       

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