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Title: Getting there slowly.
Post by: tizaala on May 01, 2014, 10:37:03 am
Just a quick update , after two years constant pain I finally had my hip replaced last Wednesday, all went well apart from a touch of pneumonia after the opp so they kept me in 5 days instead of the planned 3.
  I have some impressive bruising to display and a little soreness and still very stiff in the Quad muscles , but the constant nagging pain is all gone and I have been able to cut back on the strong painkillers that were making my life a misery. Only a matter of time now till I am fully functioning again.   :thumbsup:
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Post by: SallyintNorth on May 01, 2014, 10:46:24 am
Brilliant news, tiz  :thumbsup:

Keep doing the exercises and you'll be giving Gaby a run for her money again very soon  :-*
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Post by: Sbom on May 01, 2014, 11:07:17 am
Brill! My mum has had both her knees done and it has literally given her her life back. Enjoy  :)
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Post by: Rosemary on May 01, 2014, 11:07:41 am
That's great news :thumbsup: Constant pain is SO debilitating. So you'll be leaping about like a young thing in time for summer  :sunshine:
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Post by: Q on May 01, 2014, 11:09:58 am
Good news. 

I expect you will be frolicking in the fields in no time.

All the best.
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Post by: clydesdaleclopper on May 01, 2014, 11:57:09 am
Excellent news  :thumbsup:
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Post by: mojocafa on May 01, 2014, 12:16:45 pm
Delighted for you, have missed you posts of late  :thumbsup:
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Post by: MAK on May 01, 2014, 12:39:28 pm
Great newsTiz !
3 days planned stay after a hip op sounds like you went private  ::) - my brother only got 42 hours inpatient stay on the NHS last week.
i hope the chest has cleared up and that your are well enough to crack on with all the exercises - gardening soon then !?!


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Post by: Bionic on May 01, 2014, 12:54:24 pm
Glad you have finally had the op Doug. You will feel like a spring chicken in no time  :hug:
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Post by: madcat on May 01, 2014, 04:02:28 pm
My mum had hers done and is doing just fine . You will be frolicking like a spring lamb next year.
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Post by: in the hills on May 01, 2014, 07:38:14 pm
Doug, loads of new hips in our bit of Wales.

Had an accident in November and fractured mine ..... screwed back together and so far so good.

My neighbour had a replacement in October. He is well into his seventies and already back training his collies, catching moles, sorting ponies feet and so on. He felt better almost straight away and looks really well now.

Another lady farmer was knocked over by a feisty cow (the moo moo kind) and is back to night shift lambing .... climbing hurdles etc etc .

Get better soon ...... I reckon climbing all these Welsh hills soon strengthens the legs back up!!!!  ;D
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Post by: jaykay on May 01, 2014, 08:18:40 pm
Really good to hear  :thumbsup:

A friend's just had his second (other) hip replaced and is back to climbing mountains -what a difference it's made to him.

Hope you're doing the same soon  :)
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Post by: Mammyshaz on May 01, 2014, 08:37:03 pm
 :bouquet: wishing you a speedy recovery back to the grind  :hug:
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Post by: Lesley Silvester on May 01, 2014, 11:19:00 pm
Soon be back to running around trying to catch escaping animals.
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Post by: tizaala on May 02, 2014, 11:27:50 am
To answer a few, Thanks for all your good wishes, already feeling good , just helped Gabi move the mares to a fresh pasture as they trashed the small paddock last night after the rain. I can categorically say there will be no mountain  climbing during my lifetime, never appealed to me, I am quite capable of falling off smaller items. It was an NHS opp hence the two year wait. Agree about the Welsh hills knackering  strengthening the legs, there is some flat land in Wales but I forget which museum has it. :innocent:

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Post by: john and helen on May 02, 2014, 09:22:13 pm
wishing you a speedy recovery Doug…  :thumbsup:
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Post by: plumseverywhere on May 03, 2014, 08:32:58 am
All these images of Tiz frollicking with lambs....  :o   with his wings on ..  ;D

Good to speak to you earlier in the week Doug, you sound so much better in yourself. Really, really pleased its all over now xxx
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Post by: goosepimple on May 03, 2014, 10:06:12 am
Tell us how you go Tiz - oh and the colour of your bruises  :D :hug:
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Post by: benandjerry on May 03, 2014, 04:44:23 pm
Speedy recovery  :)
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Post by: tizaala on May 06, 2014, 08:28:38 pm
Well , the district nurse came this morning :o  ( stop sniggering at the back) to change my dressings. and she decided it was looking so good that no further dressings were necessary, and if I keep having  a few small walkabouts everyday then I can do without the pressure stockings,  ;D . so it's all good news.
Thanks for all your good wishes ,I appreciate them.
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Post by: Mammyshaz on May 06, 2014, 08:38:10 pm
How did you frighten the district nurse away so quickly? On second thoughts....don't answer that   :roflanim:

Glad you are on the mend ( guessing the nurse was  :relief: too ).
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Post by: cloddopper on May 06, 2014, 09:19:45 pm
Good news to hear Tiz  ,

Did you have to have anti clotting treatments prior & after the op ?

Bells rang for me when you mentioned pneumonia ... I still trying to get a life back using warfarin to stop blood clots after a recent blood clot broke away from my groin  and reached my lungs .
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Post by: midtown on May 07, 2014, 11:29:52 am
Good to hear of positives following these ops. :thumbsup:
Unfortunately, I know of of two people who weren't so lucky. :(
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Post by: in the hills on May 07, 2014, 12:09:07 pm
Is that those injections in the tummy?

I asked the nurses in the hospital if it was the same as injecting sheep. If it was I'd be okay. She looked a little  :o. Told them that my daughter could administer if need be. Daughter said she wasn't doing them cause sheep were okay to do as they didn't moan.  ...... Moan ..... me??????? ........ Never.  ;D
Title: Re: Getting there slowly.
Post by: tizaala on May 07, 2014, 06:28:29 pm
Yes , the anticlotting injections were on while in hospital, now on Rivaroxaban 10ml  for a 35 day coarse. they have moved away from wharfarin these days. the only tabs I take now are Amlodipine for   my BP and the rivaroxaban , I don't need the painkillers at all for the first time in 2 years such a relief  :relief:
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Post by: Lesley Silvester on May 07, 2014, 11:37:48 pm
That's good news.