Hip replacement

[vickster]

I'm in no rush to have it done and there's no way I'll be paying thousands for a private op'! I can easily limp around for the next 6,7,8,9,10 or whatever months while waiting. I've been limping now for nearly 2 years, so a few more months won't make much difference.
If as suspected it's what did you call it, bone on bone arthritis?🤔 that should then qualify me for that blue badge I've been after for ages.

Nope, you need an assessment to say you qualify I should think.
Millions of people have arthritis, most don’t have a blue badge.
Presumably you’ve read the information about how to apply? 🤔
https://www.gov.uk/apply-blue-badge

 

[PaulSB]

I'm in no rush to have it done and there's no way I'll be paying thousands for a private op'! I can easily limp around for the next 6,7,8,9,10 or whatever months while waiting. I've been limping now for nearly 2 years, so a few more months won't make much difference.
If as suspected it's what did you call it, bone on bone arthritis?🤔 that should then qualify me for that blue badge I've been after for ages.

No it won't. Your diagnosis doesn't influence whether or not you get a Blue Badge. The deciding factor is mobility and getting one isn't easy these days.

As for the taxi business you're just making life difficult for yourself.

 

[fossyant]

My BIL has his hip replaced late 30's. He hung on as long as he could tollerate the pain as he was rather young and replacements have a 10-15 year life span, and abut 3 ops max. Accy, if you are managing without bad pain, then sick with the waiting list.

 

[gbb]

I sometimes wonder, sometimes long, for hip replacements
If it took away the never ending aches, the occasional deep bouts of pain , id have it done tomorrow

 

[Drago]

When I weighed my maximum (~114 kg/18 stone) my knees hurt so much that I could not walk forwards down a flight of stairs, I had to turn and let myself down slowly backwards. I also had great difficulty getting up from my armchair. I thought my knees were wrecked by arthritis.

I lost 1/3 of the weight and the pain went away, just like that!

Pffftt, lightweight!

@Accy cyclist if you want to know about applying for a blue badge then feel free to pm me, me olde mucker. I have much experience of this over the years for Mrs D.

 

[Accy cyclist]

As for the taxi business you're just making life difficult for yourself.

Like how?

Pffftt, lightweight!

@Accy cyclist if you want to know about applying for a blue badge then feel free to pm me, me olde mucker. I have much experience of this over the years for Mrs D.

I'm gonna PM you later @Drago.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Transport is booked for next Monday's appointment. I have to be ready from 11.30 for my 1.30 appointment.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

if you are managing without bad pain, then sick with the waiting list.

Was “sick with the waiting list” an intentional one?

 

[fossyant]

Was “sick with the waiting list” an intentional one?

Oops, nope !

 

[Accy cyclist]

I forgot to mention, they asked if I needed oxygen for the journey. I don't of course, but I wouldn't mind some of that gas and air stuff to inhale on the way there and for the journey back!

 

[KnittyNorah]

I forgot to mention, they asked if i needed oxygen for the journey. I don't of course, but I wouldn't mind some of that gas and air stuff to inhale on the way there and for the journey back!

When I booked my first transport for the eye stuff, NWAS asked me if I was SURE I could manage in an ordinary car ... the only record they had of me was from a few years previously where the notes stated 'two man lift' and 'wheelchair - cannot walk' until I laughed and said oh, that was after I'd torn my achilles tendon ...

 

[ColinJ]

I forgot to mention, they asked if I needed oxygen for the journey. I don't of course, but I wouldn't mind some of that gas and air stuff to inhale on the way there and for the journey back!

I had to go back to hospital for tests a week or so after being discharged. At the time, my lungs were still riddled with clots so my walking range was only about 20 very slow and painful metres. A hospital minibus picked me up to take me 8 miles to the hospital. It took about an hour because we toured the area picking up other patients on the way. When we arrived, the driver stopped in a crowded car park, about 60 metres from the hospital entrance. Everybody else got out. I couldn't so I waited, assuming that somebody would help me. The driver got quite ratty and asked what I was playing at! I told him that I would need to be taken into the hospital in a wheelchair. He asked if thought that he looked like a porter!!!

Once it became obvious that I wasn't going to move, he reluctantly went into the hospital and found a porter for me. The porter turned up a with a wheelchair a couple of minutes later.

I was very surprised that a hospital driver would be surprised that a patient would have trouble walking, and annoyed that he got annoyed about it!

 

[Landsurfer]

So Julie is at the 5 week point after having her hip replacement .... she’s dancing through the poppy fields
Pain free and with more mobility than she’s had for over 7 years ... lots more ...
From first visit to the hospital, to operation, to successful recovery in just 4 months .....
She was expecting it to take years to get the op .... wrong .....
It’s been years since she could get her legs apart ....... she can now

 

[ColinJ]

So Julie is at the 5 week point after having her hip replacement .... she’s dancing through the poppy fields
Pain free and with more mobility than she’s had for over 7 years ... lots more ...
From first visit to the hospital, to operation, to successful recovery in just 4 months .....
She was expecting it to take years to get the op .... wrong .....
It’s been years since she could get her legs apart ....... she can now

That's great news!

I'm not sure about that final sentence though...

If only my dad could have been persuaded to have had his hips done. He was already crippled by arthritis by the time he he was 10 years younger than I am now, and lived to be 17 years older than my age so that was 30+ years of suffering. His eventual death was brought on by falls and immobility so it probably took 5-10 years off his life too.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Just got back from my hip related hospital appointment. The doctor says I need a CT Scan to determine whether I need a new hip, which if so will be determined by me having 'serious arthritis' on my hip joint.