wife goes in for hip replacement surgery

Good luck to her, ZN. My sister, who actually lives in Portland, ME had to have her hip replaced 2 years ago on an emergency basis; she went for a walk in a nature area and slipped on a log and fractured her hip. Thankfully, she was found within the hour of it happening and was transported to the hospital where they did the procedure the next day.

After a month or two of rehab, she is as good as she ever was.

Maybe, while your wife goes in, you should have that knee of your done…

Zooey wrote:

Is this your dog?

Seriously. Best wishes. Sounds undesirable.

That dog needs wheels.

Well, that sucks.

Keep us updated.

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zn wrote:

Zooey wrote:

Seriously. Best wishes. Sounds undesirable.

I wouldn’t want to go through it, but, what I have learned talking to a lot of people and going to a seminar is that hip replacements are lightyears ahead of where they had been. It used to be you didn’t leave the hospital for weeks and then took a while to get up to speed again. Now you go home the 2nd day and with the new rehab techniques are functional again within 3-4 weeks.

Yeah, but I’m just thinking, you and your knee, Margo and her hip, there just comes a time when you look around the room, and ya think, “My dream of playing in the NFL has passed me by.”

At least you don’t have CTE, though. Not that you would get that from playing football, but…you know.

Good one, BNW!

Viva Viagra!!

Been there done that. Twice! Right total hip replaced at USC 25 years ago and left total hip replaced 5 years ago. I don’t understand the statement that she will not be able to cross her leg. My right hip does give me a problem but that was 25 years ago and only because they had to back in after measuring the rod before sewing me up and then had to shorten it because it was not identical to the normal left hip bone-otherwise you risk back and neck pain because of the lace of evenness. The more recent left hip replacement present no problems whatsoever as far as crossing my leg.

As an aside I just was released from USC following a simple prostatectomy. Six hours surgery standing on my head while a robot assaults you. Six days in the hospital post surgery and now home for a few months of recovery.

Give my best to your wife. I assume the surgery is needed due to arthritis and I can assure her the replacement surgery will remove that. But if it goes right she should not have any difficulty crossing her legs-especially if she sticks to the PT>

My only suggestion is to get her up and walking as much as possible. I know she’s a nurse so she is aware of the need for the blood to circulate around the prosthesis. Not sure what the weather is like there but just waling around the house for as long as you can is extremely helpful. You don’t want her falling on ice or snow outside. Your right the replacement surgeries today are one day surgery and the next day home. The one I had 25 years ago I was in the hospital for a week and then came home with a huge bottle of vicodin. The most recent one-no pain medication. The difference is that some surgeons actually cut through the muscles to get to the big bone that holds the ball. The other and most recent methods is to merely separate the muscle without cutting through. The latter is less painful and faster recovery. I’m no surgeon but have gone through this same surgery twice. My mother actually went through it 3 times-one being a recession-with the last taking place in her early 90s.

Hip replace surgery today is much simpler than ever before but still her pain is very normal and actually is part of the healing.

My only regret -and its a small one-is that every since the first one I’ve never been able to ski with any degree of confidence. Always afraid I would fall and the damn prosthesis would come out.

She is going to be just fine and I would not hesitate for her to take the pain medication because she needs to be pain free to be able to go through PT and walking around as much as possible.

If you have a very enlarged prostate gland that causes bladder retention (my case) you may need surgery to reduce the size of the gland. Most surgeons studied under the open surgery model and are uncomfortable in learning a new method. Those that have studied robotic urology surgery are more comfortable BUT you need a surgeon that does the procedure 2-3 times a week. If you have prostate cancer of the aggressive kind then the robotic method is better when it comes to post surgery issues such as incontinence, lack of sexual functions, etc. The reason is in the former the surgeon removes the prostate gland completely and in the open method is reaching down in a pool of blood to cut away at the various vessels to remove the gland. In the robotic method the entire procedure is shown on a huge 3D screen where the surgeon can see precisely where he is cutting.

Now that I’ve made your night really comfortable you can go to sleep.