Surgery scheduled for 3/14/12

ctb · March 27, 2012, 04:02:45 PM

I'm still trying to master the claw thingy, I can't imagine building a chicken cage two weeks after surgery. :o

hernanu · March 27, 2012, 04:15:01 PM

You have to get the optional chicken cage thingie. ;D

ctb · March 27, 2012, 04:19:44 PM

Quote from: hernanu on March 27, 2012, 04:15:01 PM
You have to get the optional chicken cage thingie. ;D

Haha - I wonder if I could have substituted if for the blue thing. Still not sure what that is for.

imgetinold · March 28, 2012, 09:13:37 AM

The blue thing is the world's worst designed shower aid. Lather it up, try to wash the bottoms of your legs, and it just pushes away from the skin so only the edge is touching. Really awful. all I ended up using it for was to wash the bottoms of my feet. I would later it, drop in on the floor, and rub my feet over it.

Later, I'd ask my wife to pick it up! Ha. It really is pretty useless. I'll probably remove the sponge head and use it to wash my car (after the pollen season here in the Atlanta area is over.......)

Aerial · March 28, 2012, 10:18:24 AM

Your pollen is still going strong? We had tons of rain this past weekend and it seems to have washed the pollen away in Columbia, SC.......yippee, I finally washed my car and stopped sneezing. Plus I have a convertible and can put th stop down again!

Jbennett · March 28, 2012, 10:32:08 PM

CTB they didn't send you to that group animal husbandry class the PT's taught? It was right after the class on how to go up and down stairs on crutches.

Jbennett · April 05, 2012, 07:16:13 PM

Yesterday was three weeks. Been working mostly 1/2 days since about 10 days post op. Haven't touched a crutch or cane in a couple of weeks. Actually never used a cane at all. Not helpful. Walking a mile or more with ease. Really want to get on the elliptical but thats 3 weeks away. Although a 70 something year old orthopedic surgeon I know who is a nut was on the elliptical at our club the other day. 14 days post op on a THR!!!! I was shaking my head wondering what his surgeon would say. lol :-\ I was telling him about my hip and how I couldn't get on the elliptical until the 6 week mark and he just smiled and said I'm 14 days on my second THR. This is the same guy who has already had to be defiberilated at the club one time but continues to run in place in the steam rom and jog around the tennis courts in a sweatsuit in the heat of Memphis summers. I'm sure his cardiologist would be just as shocked as his ortho. He was on there for over a half hour file I did some upper body weight machines. Seeing him sure tempted me but I'm going to follow the rules as best I can. I already seem to find it hard to comply with the 90 degree rule and I violate it pretty frequently.

Jbennett · April 17, 2012, 03:16:33 PM

I broke the rules and got on the elliptical a week early. Just did 30 minutes and it felt easy and natural. That same 70 something orthopedic surgeon who is 4 weeks on a THR was on the machine next to me for a full hour. He was reading an article on guess what....MOM HR. Ughh!! The guy was editor of AAOS journal a few years ago and said they were working on a response to all the stories about MOM to publish in the journal. I get the feeling he's not in the pro MOM camp from our previous conversations.