...the hosp will give you a walker to take home with you and you won't be on it long enough to warrant the expense. You won't need a walker for more than a few days. After that you will be on a cane.
...the surgical team will put a pair of really tight white stockings on ya to prevent blood clots. I rather have blood clots. The stocking might look great on a stripper but not so good on an old wore out jar head. Besides, it's like putting a marshmello in a piggy bank.
...ya will also get a brace for the leg and some serious instructions on how far you can bend etc. The hip is a ball and socket kinda thing and it is held in place by the same thing that holds the original in place, nothing but tendons and muscles. If you bend to far this way or that you can pop it out. I didn't have a problem with mine, but those who have say it is a real vocabulary expander. Good news is that ya don't have to go to the hospital to get it put back in place, your local fire department paramedic can put it back in. Works the same as any other dislocated hip.
...pain pills? Don't take any more than you abxolutely have to. I took em at bed time for the first day or two and then took one right before physical therapy.
...sleep a real problem. Make sure ya got a recliner ya can get into and out of all by yourself. Ya may have to sleep in it for a day or two and ya will probably want to nap in it from time to time. Also get yaself one of them bottles ya can whiz in while sitting down.
...you will lose weight during the recovery process. Being unable to run to the fridge during every commercial is sommething you will give up without thinking about it. There is a lesson in there somewhere.
...feb 4th I will be joining you in misery as they are gonna replace the first of two knees that are bone on bone arthritic.
...another thing about the walker, it is just there for the balance issues. Ya not gonna need it for that for long.
...I will drop ya more info as I think of it. I really need to "Defragment" my mind one of these days.
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