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Never thought I would see the day...

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rose0000
rose0000

For all hippies waiting and for those recovering this is a message for you. I had virtually all but given up hope of being healthy, fit and well again, and at my age it was really painful to think I would not live a normal life again, BUT I am nearly there if not ACTUALLY there! You could strike me down with a feather, but this operation really DOES work.

This weekend I had my skinny jeans on again (couldnt wear them too tight on the scar) hiking with my girls around the beautiful cornish coast, on the beach in the spring sunshine without a care in the world - hip was fantastic! No limping at all!!!! 

Heels on in the evening going out with my family for dinner, and no one would even know I have just recovered from a hip replacement! AMAZED can be the only word I would describe how we all felt sitting there! Brings tears to the eyes just thinking about it.

Is it all worth it? After months of highs and lows, you bet! Keep going everyone....wherever you are in the journey...at some point soon it will all be a distant memory and you WILL get your life back!!!

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  • helen56309
    helen56309 rose0000

    Posted

    Well done rose it's great for you to share your story with us all I am 3 and a half months post op and doing great no sticks no limp but I still get a bit tired after a while but I am putting that down to age and not the op lol ☺

    I must admit never thought I would have been able to be normal again

    dont know about socks though never tried that yet maybe that's the

    ultimate test.Still better weather will soon be here and we won't need

    socks for a while ha ha I know it is hard to believe when you are a few

    weeks after the op that life will ever return to normal (well depends what all our normals are )but it does. good luck to everyone on their journey to

    being normal again as you will get there 😀

    • rose0000
      rose0000 helen56309

      Posted

      Helen, so true, I still feel tired at times, really tired too, so it isn't your age. I think we are still healing on the inside.

      I began to think I will never get rid of my limp, it worried me more than anyhting else for a long time, but we get there don't we!!! It has given me real faith to get my other hip fixed at some point. I have much more confidence in the results and the experience now.

       

  • KarenFisher4074
    KarenFisher4074 rose0000

    Posted

    Aww Rose that is fantastic and i am so happy for you.

    i am 5 weeks tomorrow and i feel so good already.

    I cannot wait to be fully recovered and feel the way you do and i know its coming.

    Your message is perfect for everyone waiting or recovering Thank You

    Karen xx

    • Lallydye1
      Lallydye1 KarenFisher4074

      Posted

      Hey Karen I am 5 weeks tomorrow too.  Doing great and am hoping to be fully back up to speed very soon. Let me know what is said at your 6 week check. I am hoping I can get the go ahead to drive and ditch those socks and relax restrictions.  What approach did you have?

      Best Alison x

    • KarenFisher4074
      KarenFisher4074 Lallydye1

      Posted

      Hi Alison,

      Mine was Lateral on right hip. I will let you know what my surgeon says. I am hoping he will be pleased and take off most restrictions. 

      i am down to one stick now and working half days. I am lucky as we have our own business and i am at a desk. We set up a rest place for me in upstairs office so works really well for afternoons. I am ready in the afternoon for a rest so i know i need to be patient and not over do it.

      I am hoping to he will say yes to swimming even is just walking up and down pool will be good but in order to really do that i will need to drive so we will see.

      Glad to hear you are doing well also how was yours done and when is your check up?

      Karen x

       

    • Lallydye1
      Lallydye1 KarenFisher4074

      Posted

      Hi Karen mine was posterior approach which was not great but I think I am doing well. I would have much preferred lateral or posterior. I will let you know what happens at mt check.

      BW

      Alison

    • rose0000
      rose0000 KarenFisher4074

      Posted

      Thanks Karen! I am glad it made you feel that way. I had moments in the recovery when I just thought is this is ever going to be okay, and reading positive posts gave me hope and I clung on to hope like a limpet at times!!! Not daring to imagine the alternative...

      This operation is really amazing....I am really grateful...

      I am pleased you are through the worst now Karen, every day gets so much easier now you are at that stage....you will be running around before you know it!

       

    • Lallydye1
      Lallydye1

      Posted

      I mean I would have preferrred lateral or anterior.
  • sue1957Geo
    sue1957Geo rose0000

    Posted

    I w, before the operation I could not see myself walking, standing straight sitting the lot, as far as I was concerned I was broken.  Then the wonderful man kep his promise and put me back together again, nearly 4 months on and I am walking with a slight limp which seems to be getting better, crawling around on the floor with my goddaughter and my dog, taking my do for a walk that was something I could not do for over a year.  Yea I get back ache if I sit to long, but compared to what it was its ok.  So looking forward to the summer, when I can get shoes with heels and walk tall.

    Yes hippies, at first it is a struggle as you cannot do what you did, but it will come take a week at a time, good luck to all new hippies to be.

    Suexx

    • julia83198
      julia83198 sue1957Geo

      Posted

      great isnt it Sue, I had mine a couple of weeks before you and life is so much better can run around after my two small grandchildren, walk every day without the bone on bone pain almost forgotten what it was like before.
    • rose0000
      rose0000 julia83198

      Posted

      I have actually forgotten how bad the pain was if I am being honest, it is only flashes of memory or when I do something now I couldn't do before it comes back to me.

      I guess the body naturally expects to be well.....and I have adjusted well to life without pain and can feel relaxed again and sleep!! And laugh.

      My husband says I do not have that etched look of pain on my face any longer, as I result I think we look better and perhaps younger.

       

    • rose0000
      rose0000 sue1957Geo

      Posted

      Surgeons deserve a medal that is for sure, well all of the hospital team, because the surgeon can not perform the operation with help and support. I think I will be forever grateful to mine that is for sure. I sent him a present and a card last week. I can not express to him adequately in words what he has done for my family and I.

      It is a long road the recovery for all hippies, with ups and downs, but there is an end thankfully, and that end finishes with being able to live a full life. 

    • sue1957Geo
      sue1957Geo rose0000

      Posted

      I can smile now no pain walking tall.

      i saw my surgeon when I visited my mum, i just showed him i can walk and thanked him for giving me my life back.

      sue

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