When will I be able to dig an allotment?

I cant answer your query I'm afraid, but will be very interested in the responses! I have big garden which I love, but my ability to garden has been affected for the last few seasons, and I am hoping that this will be a better year.

Same age too!

Here's hoping 😊

Dear Wendy and Gertie..Welcome to this forum of everything on hips pre and post op and all inbetween!  I am now just over 4 months.  I a 67 and was tol d I could not do gardening for 3 months at least.  I was grateful we were heading towards winter when I had op done as less to do..or so they say but i still can see masses that need doing!!  You cannot bend to do this and you must stick to the rules as boring as it seems,  I got someone in to put garden to bed for the winter but still I wanted to be out there doing things.  I postponed my hip op as was scrared but am pleased now to have had it done and look forward to a better 2016..as you will too.  I am still careful and have not yet got onto the floor as worried I won't get up..but many on this site have posts of doing things earlier than me..it is diff for each of us.

Best Of Luck,

Alice

If i remember rightly, absolutely not before 3 months, after that you may be allowed to, but not be able to do it.  It all depends on how well you respond to the physio.

It seems that how well our battered bodies respond to the physio is really the key to how fast we recover.  Our bodies really are are battered and bruised with this operation believe me, I have had it and heard it twice now. 

Graham - 🚀💃

Thanks for the replies, I thought it would be  a good few months before I could work on the allotment.  I currently have two hens on my allotment, in a wooden raised coop set in a walk-in covered run.  My OH has said he will try and clean and feed the hens but he is a bit worried about it.  I have seen a rat in the run on a couple of occasions (apparently they are coming from an allotment behind mine) and he hates rodents.  Although it is a walk-in run for me (I am 5 ft),  it isn't for him and he will need to keep his head bent or crouch slightly, the other problem is that he broke his ankle in 2014 and he still has some issues with it on uneven ground.  How soon can I expect to walk on uneven ground with crutches or would a zimmer frame be safer?  The gate into the run is raised about a foot off the ground, I currently lift my good leg in and then bend my bad leg behind me and enter that way, will I be able to do this shortly after the op?  We had considered moving them home but we only have a small paved yard and two dogs who will probably bark at them all the time.  We have tried to rehome them, but they are quite old.