Pussy, a good prang never hurt anyone.....well, maybe Diana! Stop you whining and get on with trolling these boards.
Mmmm ..... my hip hop was not so drastic but still had the transfusion due to excessive blood loss during the op, the nurse brought the pack of blood and noticed it was out of date so had to change it. But stuff I wasn't prepared for was the anaesthetic I chose spinal and when they injected me the whole of my body from the stomach downwards was numb I couldn't move a thing. So I was manhandled onto the operating table where a guy with a felt tip pen marked the hip where the cut was going to be. After the op I was given morphine which didn't agree with me at all and caused me to vomit all over the place much to the disgust of the 2 nurses who had bathed me and put me in clean clothes. Then the rehabilitation is something else especially having to sit on an elevated toilet seat with handles so as not to sit down too low, I have heard of the new hip popping out but not snapping, jeepers.
Not what I wanted to hear Ref ! I need an op on one of my hips (I've been stalling for years because the surgeons don't like giving smokers general anaesthetics, so the spinal tap option has been offered instead). Your story is giving me pause for thought, lily-livered bugger that I am.
Well you know how it goes I hope your's is doing ok it certainly does the job now... The hip that snapped had been in there 22 years. so had served me really well. If I can find the image I will put it on here. .. The bog seat and stuff Honestly fella YOU will be fine go for it. I stayed awake for two of mine. Much preferred choice.
Chaps, I wish you well with your new & new to be hips. Please forgive me in cracking a small smile at the mention of a little pain. My mother in law had one replaced on Monday. Hurting to ****, I hope.
Thanks thanks for the positive vibes mate. I'm choosing my playlist gradually to drown out the chainsaw & chisel noise - Led Zeppelin at full blast may do it. I know a few people who've had the op & they pretty well say the same thing. Can't wait to start playing football again and get rid the that hateful motorized golf cart. After 60 years of smoking it's tough to give that up.
My mum had her hip done last year, she was dreading it and put it off for years, but now she's all sorted she wishes she'd had it done years ago.
Go for it TC it was just a weird sensation likened, I have been told, similar to a woman having an epidural during childbirth. The anesthetis was quite a comic when told of the choices I asked what else was there and he said they had a ruddy great mallet under the table lol. But despite everything the whole episode restored a quality of life that had disappeared due to the pain in the hip the transformation has been amazing and most welcome. I was also amazed at how common this procedure is, along with the knee equivalent, people I have known for ages confess that they have had their hip/knee open done year's ago. But I think some of the myths are a bit far fetched I was told that I would set off the security alarms at the airport when I first went abroad again after the operation so I told all the security people when I was being frisked. What happened? Not a thing no alarm went off, but explaining the hip at the Spanish airport resulted in blank stares until someone understood. There was no pain associated with the spinal option TC just the weird sensation of not being able to move a thing from the waste downwards, as I say go for it.
Agree OLM, I was, in effect, a cripple before the op but the strange thing was that it was the knees that were giving me the problem and it wasn't until I saw the specialist that he explained that it's not the knees that's the problem it's the hip and he showed me on the x-ray.
Good for her. I don't know if anyone remembers him but I had my first I've done by a Mr Sargeson I think that is how you spell it. It was at the old De la pole hospital.
I had my first hip done some 30 years ago when I was in my 20s so yes an oldie. I don't know when De la pole closed though.
This seems odd to what I understand is the situation today, most of the people I have talked to say that they only do a replacement on people in their late 50's/60's so for you to get one in your 20's is not something I have heard of today. In fact one or two people I know, in their 40's have been refused replacements until they are older which seems cruel as if they were in the pain I was life will be most uncomfortable.
I was given two choices ... Either they drill a screw that immobilized the joint and let it fuse together. Our the hip replacement. When I find them I will show the images of the broken joint that was over 23 years old and the replacement. But I agree it is rare.
