Hips
Thanks for the note and the Star Rider, I am a big ring tail fan. I just last weekend launched and safetly recovered my Tumbleweed. I am builing the Thrustline Sprite clone. My first rocket, I was 11.
I had the same but little different issue in 1985. I was on 16 asprin a day. My bleeding time was threw the roof. The doctor weaned / stopped all my meds a week before surgery. I only took Tylenol. and Tylenol/3. Now that was a bad week.
They will probably do the same for you, cut down or sop your blood thinner.
Also if it is any comfort the hips are easy, knees are the tough joint to heal and start therapy. Why you ask ? the hinge joint has many more ligaments and more difficult to get stabilized. A ball in socket has it own stability with out the connective tissue.
The hip is much much less blood. I only need a transfusion when the knees were done. The doctor, opens the hips and moves the sacks of muscles out of the way. With knees the doctor (up until very recently, new in Chicago) cut the quadriceps in half and open the knee like a butterfly then replace the components. I just saw this week that a doctor in Chicago has prefect a knee replacement with of cutting the Quad in half.
You go in a 7am and your are up and walking at 2 pm and home by 6pm.
Make sure you ask your doctor about the ceramic hip, not the titanium. Jack Nicklaus has one. They have been available for 5 years now and are the preferred way to go. It has a much better mean time between failure.
They will probable give you a at home blood pressure cuff, if you don't already have one.
They will probably keep you under close observation as you wean the cumiden.
Good luck, Al
I had the same but little different issue in 1985. I was on 16 asprin a day. My bleeding time was threw the roof. The doctor weaned / stopped all my meds a week before surgery. I only took Tylenol. and Tylenol/3. Now that was a bad week.
They will probably do the same for you, cut down or sop your blood thinner.
Also if it is any comfort the hips are easy, knees are the tough joint to heal and start therapy. Why you ask ? the hinge joint has many more ligaments and more difficult to get stabilized. A ball in socket has it own stability with out the connective tissue.
The hip is much much less blood. I only need a transfusion when the knees were done. The doctor, opens the hips and moves the sacks of muscles out of the way. With knees the doctor (up until very recently, new in Chicago) cut the quadriceps in half and open the knee like a butterfly then replace the components. I just saw this week that a doctor in Chicago has prefect a knee replacement with of cutting the Quad in half.
You go in a 7am and your are up and walking at 2 pm and home by 6pm.
Make sure you ask your doctor about the ceramic hip, not the titanium. Jack Nicklaus has one. They have been available for 5 years now and are the preferred way to go. It has a much better mean time between failure.
They will probable give you a at home blood pressure cuff, if you don't already have one.
They will probably keep you under close observation as you wean the cumiden.
Good luck, Al