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Billy Ny
03-18-2006 07:37:53
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Re: OT: Hip replacement in reply to Stan in Oly, WA, 03-17-2006 06:33:20
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My mother had them both done in '98, reason for the first one was 6 years prior was hit by a car, broken pelvis in 8 places, broken leg, shattered knee, broken hip which deteriorated causing a replacement, she may have had this replacement done initially after that serious injury, can't recall, but over the years even prior to this accident, and to date I cannot even begin to recall how many times she's been in/out of hospitals, operations, procedures, physical therapy, etc. The pain at night was getting worse so she had them done in '98 and I think it's parallel to what others posted, it took a fair amount of time but the pain from that was finally elininated. One thing in her favor was that she was a physical education teacher for 39 years and exercised religiously, it was a very noticeable benefit to her recovery time and minimizing some of of the side effects that others may not have recovered from, another person in poor physical shape may not have done so well. On top of that, in Aug. '04 she either tripped or I'm not sure what happened, but on the way down she grabbed a hold of what a lot of people make use of as shelving, concrete block and pine boards, 3 blocks high, the top one she grabbed somehow landed just right on her and broke both her legs, not the femur but the tibula or the other one, thankfully not compound but she was bleeding quite a bit. These are dangerous things to use as shelves, I don't recommend the practice of using them for this, not meant for shelves, meant for walls. She then dragged herself up the stairs, bleeding quite a bit and put some laundry in the dryer, put the groceries away, then crawled into the room where she smokes, lit up, then called a friend to bring her to the hospital, I got a phone call while up to my knees in concrete and went home immediately, place looked like a murder scene, then to the hospital. I've never seen someone have such tough "breaks" and now the hip pains she had is replaced by the effects of these broken legs, she's up every other hour at night, smoking,( tried numerous times to get her to quit, I hate cigarettes with a passion ) due to all the aches and pains from all of this, hell of a way to enjoy ones retirement. Through all of this, those hip replacements never gave her any trouble though, I've been there to help her through all of it, she's done lot of recovery time and physical therapy over the years.
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