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ssshhhh.... but just to tell you I think hip and I have bonded!

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rose0000
rose0000

I had a few ups and downs with how I felt about my fledgling hip....I hadn't expected to feel emotional about it. Mostly I couldn't wait for the pain to stop pre op, and didn't give too much thought as to how I would feel about it after if I am being honest, I was dealing with the practical side of it etc and logistics. Do tell me if you felt the same?

But hadn't prepared for how I would feel after...

Having had some time together, some highs and lows I have come to the conclusion that this little godsend of a hip is my little baby. I am going to nuture it, cherish it, put it before all else, because without this fledgling hip I would truly be in complete dire straights....so now I have bonded with my new hip, the sense of sadness has evaporated....I wonder if I am the only crazy person to feel this way....but had to say it out loud if you know what I mean....I love my new hip and new life, and thank god for modern medicine.

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  • tracyhipLA3UK
    tracyhipLA3UK rose0000

    Posted

    Hi Rose,

    when I had my THR done it gave me a new life - it was the best thing I have ever done. I went from being in severe OA pain with a limp to be ablt to do all the normal things in life like - walking, swimming, dancing and gardening again! Ok its now worn out 13 year son - but hey thats why I', doing it all over again - bring it on I say !

    Tracy

    • rose0000
      rose0000 tracyhipLA3UK

      Posted

      Wow that is such an inspirational post!!! I hope everyone else is reading it. This is exactly why we do it! We have a life again! Wonderful. Thank you for posting your message.

      When is your next one? smile

    • tracyhipLA3UK
      tracyhipLA3UK rose0000

      Posted

      Hi Rose,

      last appointment I has was 20 Feb, they said 2 -3 months. Got another appointment to see Mr Maguire on 15 April. Had MRSA swabs done and loads of other investigation test etc. Not had Pre-op yet - no doubt that will be next. But yes its all worth it I know that I don't want to be ill or let the worn out hip stop me from doing all the things we take for granted - Each day it gets a little worse its mostly uncomfortable/stiff/can be sore.

      Thank you Rose, for your lovely comment - we just have to remember why we are doing this as someone said on here I forget where I read it - its a barbaric operation! this is true, but hey no pain no gain.

      Tracy

  • Mabelsmum
    Mabelsmum rose0000

    Posted

    What a lovely post, I thought I was the only one who felt that way about their new hip. I'm so looking forward to my new life. I'll probably need the right one doing too at some point. Thing is I won't be scared. Indeed thank god for modern medicine. 😘
    • rose0000
      rose0000 Mabelsmum

      Posted

      Thank you for your post Mabelsmum ~ I need my left one doing (we will swap over!) too, and won't be nervous at all next time, I will also have lower expectations about the time frame too, I will also feel much more confident about the outcome....when the time comes we will be in a much better place won't we smile 
  • Kate53CornUK
    Kate53CornUK rose0000

    Posted

    I knew straight after the first one last June that I was facing the next one in six months. 

    Like you I had expectations that I would get over the first one really quickly, what was the matter, I am a fast healer?  

    It was a long haul and it took ages. Number two hip was dying and I was desperate to find some positives. By christmas I was in a hopeless place and my date had been pushed on a month. I couldn't even judge how the new one was doing because I had so much pain elsewhere, poor miserable me sad.

    And now? Oh yes, oh yes, yes, yes. I can actually feel it already. Three weeks in and things are changing. My new hip makes the leg heavy to lift off the floor but there is no scaffolding pole being shoved through my bum and no one is trying to wedge a sword in my groin.

    Now I know just how strong the first one is because it is holding up the newbie admirably.

    I am taking painkillers in a healthy way and not in the watch-the-clock desperate way I did. 

    Years ago I would have been measuring myself up for a wheelchair and now look at me.  I feel free, free to move on to a new, perhaps a more careful, but definitely a new life.

    No one can probably understand that sense of loss and gain like hippies. We have come through a mad, bad, brutal operation that gives us back ourselves.

    Love to you Rose, love to your hips and your new life and if you have to have the other one done you will have a whole different view about it.

    pee ess

    I reckon we should treat oursleves to this t-shirt and wear it with pride!

     

    • rose0000
      rose0000 Kate53CornUK

      Posted

      I LOVE that t-shirt!!!!!! Oh my goodness how cool is that - where did you see it??

      It is so lovely to hear how well you are doing, amazing given you are only 3 wks with your second hip x You are nearly done girl smile smile smile

      A new love and respect for our hips surely follows this surgery, and perhaps a whole heap of new respect for the rest of our bodies too....everything else that functions and keeps us going....

      It is a loss and gain feeling you are so right, I felt the loss keenly which was so surprising to me, but the gain feeling is very much coming now....after wondering whether this was a huge mistake....not that we have the choice but you know the feeling. So completely relieved that it has worked, it isn't just a mirage after all!!!

      Love to you Kate, I am always so impressed with your energy and your cheerful and inspirational posts, many happy days await you

      PS We are just back from Cornwall, St Mawes, so beautiful!! 

    • Rocketman_SG6UK
      Rocketman_SG6UK Kate53CornUK

      Posted

      Already ordered mine from Zazzle ...

      the  "thr_total_hip_replacement_shirt"  with my website address printed on it.

      Graham - 🚀💃

    • Kate53CornUK
      Kate53CornUK rose0000

      Posted

      St Mawes is about 25 miles from me - you should have said, I would have waved!

      My youngest son lives in Falmouth and we are off there tonight to see a slide guitarist - a slice of life awaits!

      Go you on the holiday - so looking forward to some sun again and some diving, definitely some diving.

    • Kate53CornUK
      Kate53CornUK Rocketman_SG6UK

      Posted

      Hey that's fab, RM, I think I might get a copy of my x-ray printed onto one with 'double fake' under it!!
  • shirley17649
    shirley17649 rose0000

    Posted

    You're right when you say thank God for modern medicine. I always remind myself of my grandfather's sister in the 1950's and 1960's limping around on a stick with an arthritic hip. She was like that for the last 20 years of her life and died at 90-odd in the end. What a shame. I am just glad I am in the 21st century and could have mine fixed.
  • kdm
    kdm rose0000

    Posted

    Rose, I'm with you! I was so obsessed with logistics pre-op that I did not give much thought to the 'foreign body' in my body. Very strange head trip it has been in addition to the on going physical challenges ... But have reached a tipping point and this little baby is now mine, all mine!
  • cindy48619
    cindy48619 rose0000

    Posted

    Thank you Rose!!! What a wonderful way to look at it. I will love and cherish my new hip, it is a wonderful thing for me to get to go back to a pain free life. I love your energy Rose. My THR is in less than two weeks. This forum has helped me more than words can say
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