Hi all, thank you for all the very sensible and useful advice and thank you Graham for your website. When I am unsure about anything I refer to it!
Feel ready now. Finished work on Thursday. Doing last minute gardening and cleaning. After tomorrow my "boys" will just have to cope. Which I have no doubt they will. Looking forward to some lovely food. Yes they can cook!
Looking forward to watching Glastonbury on the TV lying on my raised sofa in the dry with a clean available toilet (with raise!) and chilled white wine. We were going to go! Youngest son is going straight after A Levels. Hope he and his mates have an amazing time.
I am so grateful to our NHS. I am having an expensive operation at a hospital and a surgeon of my choice. Was only told I needed a Hip Replacement 3 months ago. The pain has really ramped up the last two weeks, so I am at the point where I actually can't wait!
without the option of this marvellous operation my future would look very bleak. Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired!
Have bought myself an expensive sun bed (Jamie Oliver) and raises for it so if it is nice weather I can also sit in the garden.
Filled my pots with lots of geraniums bizzy lizzies and petunias. So all the boys have to do it water them. Downloaded books on to my kindle. Fitted raised toilet seats to an upstairs and downstairs toilet.
Have cushion to take with me. Thanks CelsB.
Oh and bought a "decent" nightie!
Think I am prepared.
Only thing I am worried about is the Spinal. Having actually watched a Hip Replacement when I was first qualified I know how brutal it is. That was nearly 30 years ago. BUT. Really don't want to hear see smell feel a thing.
I will talk to the anaesthetist tomorrow In my head I have to think that I go to sleep and they sprinkle fairy dust over me and that is it! Voila new hip!
Will let you all know how I get on.
K. X
Hi dearest Kris,
wow ... you make it sound like going to a Wellness Centre and Spa treatment -
well, come to think of it, it could be something like that ...
Sounds very very good and nicely prepared -
I chose GA for that reason - Took a deep breath, openend my eyes and was done! someone gave me a sweet icycle to suck on ...
Good luck tomorrow - sending light and healing to you, your loved ones and surgical team
Looking forward to your first post-op post ..
big warm hug
renee
hi Kris,
Like the fairy dust senario, I literally knew nothing after the painless spinal went in and then magic milk in the back of my hand I woke up in recovery voila all done. Yes and I was really looking forward to it to. You do sound very organised, great to find this sight and all the 'handy hints' it gives you. Good luck.
Hey , good luck to you. I had a spinal and a sedative and I was fine, your anaesthetists will support you with the right decision. The NHS is absolutely amazing, like you , two weeks prior to the op, I simply couldn't wait. Now I am 3 weeks and 3 days post op and can do loads of things, although the simplest of things do make me tired. Make the most of the inactive period. I am so de- stressed it's lovely, I forgot what it was like to feel normal. I must say though I have made the decision not to drink that lovely cool white wine, chilled cider or tasty fizz, until it have finished with those horrid blood thinning injections but also til all fear of dislocation is past!!! I would be mortified if I dislocated because of alcaholic incompetence.
Good luck, speak to you soon. X Malloo
Hi Kris I had my op on Wednesday also with a spinal block and sedation and I can state absolutely that I heard nothing and I felt nothing and that was despite waking up twice the op trying to wave the surgeon away. Even during my very brief awake periods I neither felt nor heard anything.
My next coherent memory was coming round in the recovery room.
That was funny, trying to wave away the surgeon! I had my pre surg hip class and a woman there was having her 2nd hip done. She said she woke up mid hammering, never felt anything, and told the surgeon she was going home now. She remembered saying it but nothing else.
Good luck Kris for tomorrow. I'm at day 11 & my biggest fear was the spinal - I would have it again in a heartbeat. My anaesthetist was a lovely man (Mr Shastry) & I really gave him an ear bashing before about making sure I was asleep. I didn't want to hear a thing (I hate the dentist because of the noise)! Anyway, half way through the op I woke up. Mr Shastry told me my blood pressure has dropped very slightly & he wanted to wake me up to make sure I was OK. I was aware of hammering in the background but to be honest I felt quite out of it (tipsy feeling) like the noise was happening over the other side of the room. I remember laughing with him & giving him another ear bashing about waking me up during the noisiest part and then we started talking about India & where he came from & me telling him about my Indian holiday. He then said something really funny & I found myself shrieking with laughter! Mr Shepherd my surgeon said 'we don't normally have this much laughter during theatre'. I then heard the staple gun & it was all over. I even asked to see the femoral head that he'd cut off!
I'm telling you this because I was petrified but waking up it all felt surreal like it was going on across the other side of the room.
Keep us posted x
Wow Kris - you really sound primed! Way to go!
Best of luck. Wishing your surgeon steady and patient hands and your nurses good humour and a FW days off before your surgery!
You are just about there.
L
Besides ... the first time I had half a ginger beer, I got looped from it !
Lol.
Thank you. That is very reassuring. Will all be over soon!
Thank you all for your lovely comments. Very. Reassuring about the Spinal. Even those that have "woken" up seem not to have been panicked by it.
Still going with the Fairy dust scenario. X
Of course it will & you wouldn't be normal if you weren't a little apprehensive. All I will say is go into this journey with a positive attitude & it will help you through. I was determined to only be in hospital 3 days & I was. I told the physio I was going home & she said 'come on then, we'd better get these stairs done'! I've had no pain at all other than when the spinal wore off my leg was really achey, like a dead leg. I felt like I'd been kicked by a horse! That was nothing compared to the OA pain before. Best wishes x
Hi kris,
will be thinking of you, darling -
have faith and know that all is well ...
you are in good hands
big warm hug and angel blessings
renee