Hip Update
 

Just a quick update to my good friends here, I just recently seen my surgeon and he said xrays look great, i got a full range of movement, i can throw the crutches away on Tuesday as i can put 100% weight back on that leg again, i start physio that day for rehab exercises and i get reviewed again in 3 months time.
I have NO PAIN what so ever anymore its really unbelievable the difference its made, my protheses was put in directly in the femur bone [no cement] its designed for my bone to fuse into it.
thanks so much for your support.:)

Yeah why not, rock & roll wouldn't be a bad start :D :D

That Is Truly
 

GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm mentally doing a 'jig', trying the real thing...well I'd fall over!

:trampoline: - j

That is great!
 

You must be a mind reader, as I was just wondering how the hip was doing! :)

Yes, love that news--
 

--although I wouldn't recommend any Australian Rules Football just yet.

(As an aside, I love watching that game. I'm not sure that I understand quite what's going on, but it looks competitive and heartfelt. We often have far too many athletes in professional sports here in the US who look like they're just going through the motions. Maybe due to the size of the contracts.)

WoW!
 

Wonderful news Brian!!! I'm so excited for you and so glad. Time to have a party to celebrate!

Here's a hug for your good news and you.:hug:

Billye

Y'all know how to do the "Hokey Pokey" down under?
Y'put yer right-hip out, y'put yer right-hip in,........:D
Way ta go, mate!

Wow, Brian: Way to go!!!

Now all you need are some of my muffins!!!!!

Seriously, good news!!!!

Melody

Great news, I am so happy for you
Lupin

Thank you everyone, your a great bunch of people.

Dahlek - loved your little comical joke :)
Mrs D - I'd like a dollar for every time i have been told i have been told i have ESP, its a bit scary really .:eek:
Glen - Yeah, i might give football a miss this year anyway :D This site will give you a good idea about the game itself http://www.upfromaustralia.com/ausrulfoot.html
Some of the players here are on million dollar a season contracts.
Billye- I am so glad its all over & done with, the results are worth celebrating
too :)
Bob - thanks for the laugh [once again] i'm still thinking about the wooden leg :D
Mel - I'll get one of those muffins one day :D
Lupin - Thank you for your well wishes, they are very much appreciated :)

Brian :)

Brian

My landlord (who lives next door to me and owns his house and my house), has one leg. Not the modern prosthetics people have today, but he's had it (who knows how many years). It does not bend at the knee and when he goes under my sink to fix something, let's just say, it's a bizarre sight to see where he puts the wooden leg. He's had this since he was six years old.

He also smokes at LEAST 4 PACK OF CIGARETTES a day. I have lived here for 15 years and I've never seen him without a cigarette in his mouth. He is not allowed to smoke in my house. I actually make him put out his cigarette before he comes into my home.

HE IS 80 YEARS OLD, doesn't look a day over 65 which is the age he was when I moved to this neighborhood.

He weighs 147 and eats PASTA every day. His mother died 10 years ago at the age of 105. Oh, his son just got married (for the first time)at the age of 53 (he doesn't look a day over 35) and the wife is expecting!!!!

GENETICS ANYONE?????

lol mel

Most excellent
 

news Brian! I'm very happy that your recovery continues to progress so well. May you have many pain free days ahead.
Best to you
Alkymst

Wow, that is amazing Mel and 105 isn't a bad effort at all.
Get this one, my mother is soon to be 77, now i am 53 and people that don't knows us often say " and your wife " :eek: when i tell them she is my mum they do a back flip, great for her but doesn't do much for me at all :) but on the other hand that don't believe i am my age.
There is an old bloke i see every now and again who i see taken his dog for a walk, he said to me one day to treat every day as its your last day because one day it will be :D :D

Reminds me of a story about my Aunt Marion. My grandmother who was 4 feeet 11 had 10 children after she came here from Sicily. (And they weighed between 10 and 12 lbs). my mother weighed over 12 lbs at birth. All were born at home and no one died at birth. Imagine 10 live births in a 4 foot 11 inch woman and they all weighed between 10 and 12 lbs. jjeeeeeezzz!!!

Anyway, the eldest was my Aunt Marion who had to be the most gorgeous woman on the face of the earth. She had jet black hair and never, and I mean never looked her age. She lost 6 children (all at birth) and finally gave birth to my cousin Chippy. Now remember, my Aunt Marion looked 20 years younger than she was.

So one day when she was walking with my cousin who was about 25 years old, (so that would have made my Aunt Marion about 50 at the time), well, she was walking on the street with him and a truck driver pulled up and started honking the horn at my Aunt Marion, telling my cousin Chippy how BEAUTIFUL HIS WIFE WAS!!!

My cousin got disgusted and yelled at the truck driver "SHE'S MY MOTHER FOR GOD'S SAKE!!" The guy almost died.

Now fast foward to when she was about 75 and retired in Florida. What did she do??? She joined a theatre guild and began doing stage plays. She WAS IN HER GLORY!!!!

I used to look at this amazing face and say "jeez, she doesn't look a day over 30". She ultimately got Alzheimers and aged practically overnight. Though she is no longer with us, my cousin Chippy still is, he's about 75 and looks 50. Amazing.

At least she got to go on stage!!!!

mel

Great news Brian. I never doubted you would make it back to "civilisation" again.

I will answer your PM aS soon as I can. Have not been too good lately.

Best wishes mate

Tony

Great news Brian
 

I am really glad that it was a success. And may I add things sound as if they have been scurrying along quite nicely despite all the problems with our health system?

Ahhhh to walk with no pain!:D

As for me pain or not, I've been raising some h*#@ at the Sydney Royal Easter Show. I can't even tell you how much walking I did. I am still recovering,but well worth it for the kiddies. Hope you had a wonderful Easter!

Jeeeeez alright, i think back in them days it wasn't unusual for people to have a lot of children, even my aunt had 13 :eek: ,she was only a small person too.
Your Aunt must have been one beautiful lady by the sounds of it, i could not even imaging how your cousin must have felt when the trucky done that.
Genetics is really an amazing thing Melody.

Brian :)

Alkymst - Thanks very much for your kind words :)

Tony - Thanks mate, its great to be back in civilization too, i hope your health improves very soon for you.:)

Thank you Aussie & yep, our health system is shocking, the doctors and nurses do a great job considering the pressure their under, one patient told me she had been waiting 7 years to have her hip replaced.
Easter is wonderful for the kiddies, i hope your feet recover soon.

take care all
Brian :)

Brian, I don't know about others, BUT...
 

I for one am gonna wanta KNOW about your 'therapy adventures'! Good, bad and UGLY! Honestly, we can probably all learn from it!
Thinking about it all as you 're-learn' how to do things right, and articulating it as I am SURE only you can, will benefit all of us. It's surprising what bad walking, balancing, even getting-out-of-chair stuff we do 'learn' to avoid pain. THEN we've got to re-learn it all again the right way! It can be both a scary thing, or as I prefer an AWSOME thing. For you I wish it to be the latter and then.....when you'll be doing audtions for the Aussie equivalent of 'Dancing with the Stars' or the like. Heck, I've high expectations, even tho it's vicariously.

Go for it! - :Head-Spin: GOT IT? Hugs - j

Brian I am so happy for you; you'd been dealing with that pain for so long that you deserve to really have a good time now. Kick up and enjoy! When others throw away their crutches, you, Brian, can throw away your magnets!

Hi Brian
 

Well, I thought I had already posted good wishes, but cannot find them, so maybe it did not take. Congratulations! I know you are glad to have this behind you.

Now, you just need to take a trip over here and meet us all at Melody's and Alan's and partake of some of her magic muffins. That might be kind of an expensive breakfast, but it would sure be fun!

Anyway, glad to hear your pain is better.

Cathie

Thanks Joan, but that is a real tall order :D :D :D ,actually we do have a show running over here called " Dancing with the stars ", its ok, but there's been no possibility of any wooden legs flying off into the audience like in the US :)

As for anything that may be of value to others here, i'm afraid there is not much i can think of that would be of help to anyone here, because it was just basically using a walker for the first day after the op, next day i started on 2 crutches and told to make sure i never put anymore pressure than 50% of body weight on my operated side whilst walking with crutches and that went on until i released on the 5th day, i used to do lap & lap around the whole ward all day long, little i knew that they were right onto me as they had been reducing my anti clotting medication every day, as being active helps to stop any [DVT's] dangerous clots forming & going to your lungs.
In hospital i only went to the gym once to see a physio who said i was doimg great & only give 3 exercises to do, squats, leg lifts & pushing my leg outwards from my side.

I have just had my first phsyio appointment today since leaving the hospital, no more crutches now and i am walking unaided around the house, but she give me a loan of a walking stick to use for a little while just to help when i need it like for stairs and uneven ground,also given another 10 exercises to do twice daily which are very easy to do anyway.

Body positions are very important for the first 3 months post op, as the cut muscles heal and re wrap themselves tightly around the actual hip joint again itself which can dislocate if you move in wrong positions, like bending past 90 degrease or even when sleeping i must put a pillow between your legs to stop any chance of crossing my legs which can cause the prostheses to dislocate from the Acetabulim cup [hip socket ].:eek: ouch, thats about it so far.
take care
Brian :)

Thanks Liza, i am just so glad its over and done with now, i keep on pinching myself to see if i am just dreaming, & yep, finally the magnets can retire :D :D
take care
Brian :)

Thanks very much Cathie, the difference is really unbelievable & that get together at Melody's would certainly be a great time, defiantly a lot of laughs that for sure :)
all the best
Brian :)