Laughter's Cure
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OK I'm not sure that this thread will be allowed to run, if it is it will be doing better than any of us at the moment, but here goes.
If it raises a laugh or even makes you smile that would be good, they say that laughter is the best medicine to make us feel better and I agree.
So if it can stay then I think a thread that you can post funny anecdotes of some part of your pre op process or your recovery then cheer us up and get scribbling, I'm sure there are loads out there.
Nothing too painful :-)
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kate32837 AlexandriaGizmo
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Does throwing us over a persistently annoying hospital physio count?
i kept saying I felt sick and she kept pushing me to 'walk through it' then without warning I chucked up all over her shoes!
Six months on and and still finding sitting a pain in the bum, excuse the pun! But I can do so much more without pain, so mustn't grumble.
kate x
AlexandriaGizmo kate32837
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And we do and they say, no really hurts.
I could do just that
anna87839 AlexandriaGizmo
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Hi I remember coming round in recovery and asking my nurse if everything was alright ,or had I
died ,no your fine Anna, what a winkle,and yes
Kate I still have rock in bum nearly 5months heho
Love to all. 😷 😱 🙌 🎄
AlexandriaGizmo anna87839
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Rocketman_SG6UK anna87839
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toy29952 Rocketman_SG6UK
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Yeah someone should've said keep your bottom lubricated......it would've been a little easier!!!!!!!
AlexandriaGizmo Rocketman_SG6UK
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beth2509 AlexandriaGizmo
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It's perhaps cheating because I already posted this one before as a tip - dropped the grabber on the floor... how do you get the grabber off the floor when you can't bend down to get anything and are supposed to be picking things up with the grabber? I spent 20 minutes trying to toss it up, shuffle it up, push it around etc... then I bent over and picked the damned thing up!
AlexandriaGizmo
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Well I have just read them and had a good laugh.
Mine isn't so funny, went to a particular outlet today to buy a sit on your chair cycle because physio said there great for improving muscle tone.
I think great twice a day 5/10 mins soon have the thigh's of a goddess,
Hubby gets it out the box looking puzzled.
Do you get the peddles with it he says????
No peddles in the box, maybe someone is trying to tell me something.
toy29952 AlexandriaGizmo
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I agree I have laughed through most of my pain and people think I'm crazy!! but I Laugh to Keep from Crying to keep my spirits up to fight through the pain I'm 11 weeks out I stop smoking to have the surgery then I started smoking again and I believe I set my healing back because it's more uncomfortable now steal I laugh
AlexandriaGizmo toy29952
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But better still stop for good, did you know smoking supresses your sense of humour
toy29952 AlexandriaGizmo
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AlexandriaGizmo toy29952
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beth2509 toy29952
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I'm recovering well but I have to admit that everyone thought I was crazy with the amount of really bad jokes I developed about my condition before the op. But you know what used to get to me? Really get to me? I am parked in the disabled space by the office door and it takes me a good five minutes to get out of the car with a struggle, walking with two crutches the minute distance to my office, struggling through doors - and every single person would ask me how I was this morning!!!! I eventually deveoped a good line in "Well I woke up breathing, which I consider a plus"... but what is it about Brits that we ask such a daft question ?every single day when we know that we desperately do not want the person to answer the question truthfully??!
AlexandriaGizmo beth2509
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OMG that has hit the nail on the head, I am asked most days either by phone or text. Are you walking yet, what part of I want walk don't they understand, I now say yes and watch there face next time they see me.
I love your answer, will have to try it
beth2509 AlexandriaGizmo
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My other technique was to answer the question.
"Well I have osteonecrosis in the left hip on top of osteoarthritis (fill in details of pain etc); the right hip has osteoarthritis (fill in more details); the spine has spinal stenosis due to..... and this means....; and the left ankle is....."
?Twenty minutes of that and NOBODY ever asks again!
hazel14263 beth2509
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AlexandriaGizmo hazel14263
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5 minute's of fame :-)
hazel14263 AlexandriaGizmo
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Too right ... Went to a works Xmas meal last night with one crutch to about 20 queries of How are you ?
Been thro hell and still in pain repeated 20 times resulted in general stunned silence 😜😜😜
AlexandriaGizmo hazel14263
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Rocketman_SG6UK beth2509
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Best one yet - I must try that line 😺 🙀 🖐
ihavenonickname beth2509
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