My Hip Replacement...
Just to let everybody know, I had my hip replacement this past Monday, the 25th, and came home Tuesday night. The hospital itself was on the most part great, other than the trainee nurse who was properly mindful of my surgical leg but didn't realize my right knee is almost as bad and didn't need her bumping into my right foot. Or the PT nurse who tried to put the safety pillow between my thighs without checking whether my Foley catheter was still in or not (OWWWW!!!). On the plus side, other than the procedure itself being somewhat more intense than the usual because of the greater extent and severity of the damage (which I was unconscious for, so Eh.), my hip replacement has gone fantastically well! Came right out of anesthesia fully lucid, very little drainage from the site, the incision itself looks great- -no swelling, redness, leakage, etc. PT is annoying but not dreadful, so as long as the actual healing proceeds smoothly and not at a crawl, I seem to be doing quite well. I most definitely CAN say that the pain is GONE; it's just the stiffness/weakness and the healing incision now, the actual bone-on-bone and locked musculature pain from before is GONE, which is fantastic. My mobility hasn't really been impacted at all, my sense of balance is just fine even though a chunk of me has been replaced by inert material...all good signs!
Hopefully the healing process proceeds apace and doesn't take forever...it could, because of my diabetes, but everything else is going quite well, so hopefully that part does, too.
THANK YOU to everyone who wished me well or thought about me at the time; it certainly seems to have helped! *g*
Hopefully the healing process proceeds apace and doesn't take forever...it could, because of my diabetes, but everything else is going quite well, so hopefully that part does, too.
THANK YOU to everyone who wished me well or thought about me at the time; it certainly seems to have helped! *g*