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Should i spend money having a ramp built for 4 steps?

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active74513
active74513

I haven't had my thr operation yet but I understand you can usually hancle a few steps maybe two wekks after   But might the absence of the ramp--the necessity of walking up four steps to get into the house and then perhpas another four steps up to another part of the house cause me to have to stay in a rehab place for a week?  Did nost of you who did not have a skilled nurse in the family , have to spend a week in rehab?  

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  • Wardrobe_mistre
    Wardrobe_mistre active74513

    Posted

    Are you in the UK or the US as sometimes things are different depending on where you are. Unless you have other disability issues you won't need a ramp. This operation is will help mobility not hinder it. My surgeon was glad that we didn't have a downstairs toilet as it meant I had to go up and down stairs each time. It was good for me he said. They will teach you the correct way to do this before you go home. 

    My husband took a few days off when I went home and then I managed alone ( with a bit of ingenuity). It is scary but you will be fine. I would say go home from hospital and recover in your own home. Take plenty of rest but also do the exercises 

    • active74513
      active74513 Wardrobe_mistre

      Posted

      Thanks.  ONe thing I'm trying to do now--one skill I', M trying to master --is just how to successfully send a post such as this one.  I seem to have been invited, in a more user -freinly way thatn usual--to send this reply to you.  But when I do NOT get the invitation "reply to wardrobe mistre" and also don't get that nice white arrow on a green background that I now see--I don't know how to "SEND" --i dont' know how to "submit" ... Here goes Mistre, hopw e that this goes though to you!! 

    • active74513
      active74513 Wardrobe_mistre

      Posted

      YOu ask if I'm in UK or US .  The answer is I'm in the south  of United States. IS someone else who repliled to my questions mentioned  (above ) she is from CANADA.  It is interesting to wonder how many posters here might be from still other counteries --New Zealand--AUstralia--which are countries we knoq are English-speaking--but then there are places all over the workls that have many english -speaking people no  doubt. 

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      Rocketman_SG6UK active74513

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    • active74513
      active74513 Wardrobe_mistre

      Posted

      ALl this advice that yo good people are giving me is very reassuring and useful Thank you!!
  • lors23
    lors23 active74513

    Posted

    Hi

    I had both hips done 6 weeks apart the physio helps you with stairs 3 days after op as they would not let me out hospital until l was able to do stairs as like you l have 5 steep steps up to house and 13 in the house. Just take your time and you will be fine. Don't waste money as you heal quite fast. X

    • active74513
      active74513 lors23

      Posted

      Thanks lors23 you are always helpful I appreciate that. incidentally i was born in brandon manitoba canada and now i live in mississippi
  • renee01952
    renee01952 active74513

    Posted

    hi again active , 

    I just responded to a previous post - 

    I understand that your surgeon wants you to go to rehab after THR surgery - 

    I don't think it is related to the 4 steps out and inside your house -

    As you can read in previous posts, you won't be discharged from hospital before you can do steps - 

    Did your doctor not explain why he wants you to go to a rehab facility? 

    Could you ask him again?

    please come back here to let us know how you are getting on, okay 

    big warm hug

    renee

    • active74513
      active74513 renee01952

      Posted

      Thank you tors23 and thank you renee1952 and thank you everdocy else whom I have failed to respond to because of my uncertainty about exactly HOW to post --how to SEND--how to "submit" .  I think I am learning that a certain amounelapse whie somone ein charge of all these messages  -in charge of the system--cedicides whether our posts are in good taste.  

    • active74513
      active74513 renee01952

      Posted

      Renee you are wonderful !!How come you can be everywhere at once?  ANyway I have been quite occupied with trying to make sure I don't fall tnthrough the cracks in therat race --the hustle -- of corrdinating all the diffrent aspects and entities invaolved in getting ready for an operation--hip replacement anterior left hip. I think it's almost three weeks since I was on PATIENT. 

  • brenda92532
    brenda92532 active74513

    Posted

    Hi

    I had my hip replacement 9 months ago. I don't have steps to get into my house but I do have stairs to go up.  In the hospital they showed me how to get up the stairs using crutches before they let me home.  I think you should be ok without having to go to rehab.

    All the best Brenda C

    • active74513
      active74513 brenda92532

      Posted

      Very interesting now that I have half -way abosorbed someo fthe stuff many of the above posts are telling me.  On the question of qhether reahab, (as oppsed to the more inclusive (or at least different)  term rehab facility) is 'necessary", I notice that I have a sheet that is addressed to a physical therapist (that's the term we use in the United States)telling them(it's called an order sheet)( specifially "PT/ATC/OT ORDER SHEET " ) --requires that I have four weeks of pt etc. at a rate of theree sessions per week. What do you spuppose the ATC means? And another question occurs to me?are there any OTHER forums like "Patient"  

    • renee01952
      renee01952 active74513

      Posted

      hi active, 

      Not sure what ATC means - perhaps you can ask them ... 

      I am sure that there are other forums like this one, eventhough this is the best cheesygrin--

       

  • active74513
    active74513

    Posted

    eeeverybody--al 21 replies to my question about the steps helped me GREATLY by giving me so many different aspects of the situation. THANK YOU!!! I'v been very much occupied with trying to insure that all the fdiffrent aspects of appointments and fomrs and so on get done. So I think Ive been away from this forum--patient--for about three weeks. 

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