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Pretty sure the bandage on my back stayed there for about 5 or 6 weeks, even with getting wet in showers. After I was home for about a week I realized they didn't give me any instructions on changing it, so I called and asked. They took it off at my post-op visit.Quote:
Originally Posted by loghousenut
I have to say, I am sooo darned glad I had this surgery. It is less than three weeks and I am going wherever I want you with the aid of a cane. I am sleeping in a bed for the first time in a year or more. I can walk up stairs using both legs, also for the first time in a year or more.
Until last week, I have not been able to lift my left leg for a high step without pulling it up by hand. Heck I can walk like our President now!
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Good to hear you doing great. It be long before you get rid of the cane.
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Well, in two days my bionic parts will be two months old. Holy moly, what a game changer this has been.
It's about a week since I have used a cane. I can practically hop into the telehandler. I climb into a car like a human. I CAN PUT ON MY OWN SHOES AND SOCKS! Yesterday I was up and down two ladders for several hours on a little project... I am considering applying for membership in the "Useful Members of Society" club.
I will start PT in a week or two but my range of motion and pain level is imitating my good hip (though my good hip has been at about 85% since I broke it in 1973).
I can climb stairs while holding two bowling balls (I'll never tell why). The hot tub feels like a long lost friend. And everywhere I go, folks ask where's my cane. This is wonderful.
I still can't figure out how they did all that dislocating, cutting, reaming, screwing, glueing, and tweaking, all through a 3" cut. Kinda like gutting a fish through the mouth I suppose.
Anyway, I know this crowd is wise enough to not worry too much about me, but I want to say thank you for all the thoughts and prayers. It is all working out to be a 100% dream come true. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...d839a7ea02.jpg
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Good deal. I spoke to a relative on Thanksgiving who said they were having hip replacement surgery this week. I told them about you and told them to ask if they could keep what was cut out for a gear shifter!
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It's really cool. I have it in one of the compost bins getting scrubbed and licked by grubs n bugs. The cold weather has stabilized things in the bacteria pit. I think I'll bring it in and soak it in peroxide til spring.
Like all of life, this boneheaded gear shifter thing is an experiment and an experience.
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It is amazing what can be done these days. Do the therapy anyway. It will help keep the internal scar tissue from tightening down. There is an ointment called Mederma, you can pick up over the counter at a pharmacy or Walmart. It is wonderful to reduce the scar tissue. It is not about making it pretty. It helps keeps it from tying things together that aren't supposed to be tied together. Glad it is going so well.
Somehow I've missed this thread until now, but I had my rotator cuff rebuilt, turns out I had 2 full tears of rotator cuff tendons, a tear on my bicep and a significant bone spur in my shoulder. I'm about 3.5 months post op and feeling pretty good
I worked recovery room for a bunch of years. We hated when we had shoulder pts because it was impossible to get them pain relief. Shoulders were really worse than almost any other surgery.
Then they started doing blocks before surgery and it was a miraculous thing for pts and nurses. If you didn't have surgery without a block you have no idea. When I was thrown from a horse and tore up my right shoulder I cried not from the pain but from what I new was coming. After 4 surgeries and 4 miserable post op recoveries my hospital finally decided to start providing nerve blocks for shoulder surgery. Didn't help the me patient but did help the me nurse a whale of a lot.
I had a shoulder block, watched them put it in with the ultrasound, the anesthesiologist explained everything he was doing, was very interesting. My arm was numb for a day
Yup, it is amazing how that blocking the pain initially generally makes it so that even when the block wears off you generally never get that excruciating post op pain you get without it. Usually can be managed with moderate pain meds.
I have foolishly resisted each of my rotator cuff surgeries (two shoulders, 3 surgeons). It was while I was still working for a living, but fortunately working for an outfit that allowed me a position that did not require the use of both arms at one time.
Two different times, for about 6 months each time, I wore an arm sling to allow a rotator cuff to heal. That meant shaking hands left handed, etc etc but, in the end, I have avoided shoulder surgery.
No, I will never again throw a 90 mph fastball. But I can shift the 5 speed and I do suspect that my healing may have happened faster than if I'd had surgery.
As for this hip... All I can say is WOW!
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You might be wise on the rotator thing. With my injury I had little choice. The landing tor muscles loose and complete ac separation as in I could not lift my arm, like, at all. After the four surgeries ( have you ever heard medical people aren't good patients)? I did physical therapy for months got som return of rang of motion but not great, then I visited this evil massage therapist. She could make a person scream UNCLE. She was awesome. Took her a year of weekly torture sessions but she got me back to full range of motion. If you were gonna be a sissy she'd tell you to go somewhere else. 25 years ago and I can cringe just thinking about it.
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Originally Posted by loghousenut
Now that is funny, let the dog clean off all the meat, then when its all cleaned off, tape on a shift pattern and then coat it with some Stone Coat drill and tap to fit your shifter.
When I first saw that, I thought they cut the wrong item out and now you would be down to just one. ;)
Won't need to see the shift pattern. I have had the pattern memorized since I was your size
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