In hospital :(

[fossyant]

Hope its Titanium

 

[Bazzer]

Now the recovery begins.
You might be different, but personally I hadn't appreciated just how much the accident, surgery, drugs and pain took out of me. So when you go out on your crutches, don't forget you have to get back.

 

[Brian Stacks]

Just like to reassure you that it looks like a good repair talking as a nurse so keep u spirit up and carry on.

 

[fossyant]

Now the recovery begins.
You might be different, but personally I hadn't appreciated just how much the accident, surgery, drugs and pain took out of me. So when you go out on your crutches, don't forget you have to get back.

That's something I've had to learn too - don't go too far. I start walking like a lego man when I've done too much. I can't currently walk at my normal pace and lag behind the family.

 

[I like Skol]

That's something I've had to learn too - don't go too far. I start walking like a lego man when I've done too much. I can't currently walk at my normal pace and lag behind the family.

Isn't that just your age

 

[fossyant]

Isn't that just your age

How very dare you (probably) !

 

[Dave7]

My heart really does go out to all of you who have had similar surgery. I do know that the mental side is very important but you all battle so hard to get over it and back to "normal".

 

[raleighnut]

That's something I've had to learn too - don't go too far. I start walking like a lego man when I've done too much. I can't currently walk at my normal pace and lag behind the family.

I still do but then I spent 8 months with my leg not healing before they replaced the pin.
2 pieces of advice I was given (and followed) get up and walk/hobble/hop about regularly (I went into the kitchen to make my own cups of tea even though I had to get Maz to bring them through into the front room) and when you do start to walk again you have to walk normally, once you 'learn' how to limp it becomes 'muscle memory' and you can struggle to unlearn it.

 

[Bazzer]

That's something I've had to learn too - don't go too far. I start walking like a lego man when I've done too much. I can't currently walk at my normal pace and lag behind the family.

Oh yes. Ego/pride/self esteem, mixed with ad hoc measurements such as telegraph poles, ends of roads, blocks etc., can bite you in the bum, hands, etc., big time. And in my case there wasn't much of a tailing off. The slump and/or hurt and/or sore hands came in pretty quickly and given I am quite a bit taller and heavier than my wife, there was only person who was going to me back.

 

[Zeffer]

Good advice. Getting from the ward to my car yesterday was exhausting and unexpected (thought I'd have a wheel chair). At least it was A to B!

 

[Brian Stacks]

Hi hope everything is still ok now your back home. Remember slow and steady. Time is your healer. Keep up the spirit

 

[Zeffer]

Thank you! So much nicer than hospital but still lots of pain. Realising just how little I can do at the moment. But, I will recover, will just keep on doing as the Physio tells me.

 

[slowmotion]

A word of warning about your analgesics. My brother-in-law's hip was run over by the back wheel of a tanker when he was out on his bike. He was in a bit of mess but they got him to hospital by helicopter very quickly. Fortunately, he was relatively young and fit and eventually made a good recovery. He was on some quite heavy-duty opiates for a while and suffered a fair bit from withdrawal symptoms when the medics started lowering the dosage.

 

[Zeffer]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll do a bit of googling. That's the last thing I want.

 

[Bazzer]

You might have physio booked as part of the exit from hospital, in addition to the exercises the physio gave you in hospital. If not and you start to experience difficulties, get down to your GP straight away and ask for physio.

I was experiencing all sorts of weird feelings around my knee, itching scar and swelling around the wound some two months after my off. Apart from the sheet of exercises, I had no physio. Dr booked me in for physio, but there was a waiting list of 5 months, so I ended up going privately, partly self funded and partly using a scheme I pay into through work, to tide me over. If I hadn't had that option, I shudder to think how much additional pain and discomfort I would have gone through.

My paid for physio also found a blood clot, (yes I had been taking the stomach injections). To be fair to the NHS, they had me on Warfarin within 24 hours of the physio's suspicion.