Re: Hip replacement
Stress going up even more now Mags and No, we haven't got anybody to help us really.
We've got family close buy but they won't be any use!
My wife finally had her assessment last week then they said she had to go back again today!
It's all very well getting advice and I was expecting some of this thanks to what people have already told me here but I'm getting more worried now because I really can't afford to keep taking any more time off work unpaid and I don't really want to use more of my holiday time but it's looking like I might have no choice though now.
They're telling her she'll need my close attention and help for 6 weeks and I was prepared but it's all those dos & don'ts................!
I get the impression that my wife' s case is a little different because she's getting quite a lot
more dos & don'ts that others have told me and she's also got to wear compression stockings for weeks too - very awkward to get on and off apparently.
She's been told that our bed is apparently fine for after the operation - surprised about that 'cos it's only about 16 inches from floor to the top of the mattress but, as we expected, our settee's too low and can't be adjusted in any safe way as it has bloody-great bear-paw front feet but small, round back feet - I mean, who thinks up these "design features" on modern furniture?!!
We've got a solution for that already though but we need a booster cushion to get it a bit higher so that her knee remains below the level of her hip at all times.
We were told before that a booster would be provided or we'd get a chit for one but apparently not now - dunno now who said we did - so I've had to order one - but they're quoting 28 days delivery now!
I've had to send a desperate e-mail but I'm also going to have to try and borrow one from work now.
The physiotherapist today mentioned to my wife that she noticed that she has a tendency to turn on her hips as she turns her head; (I've told her that for years!); a legacy I think from 20 years in Catering, but she's been told she MUST stop doing that immediately!
The reasons are obvious - it'll strain the new hip and possibly cause serious damage but they really emphasised it very strongly - my wife's worried sick now!
Another blow today was the good quality wheelchair my job said I could borrow seems to have a foot support missing - the left one, and that's the very one we need most!
Dunno what I'm going to do now so we'll have to ask the physiotherapist or something because I couldn't tell my wife at the hospital when I picked her up could I?
She was a bit stressed herself at the time!
Hoping it all gets a bit better but never the less, dreading the 17th of June when it all kicks-off now, or we hope it will. stevmk2