I got a new hip

[Kulindahr]

I did, too. Whilst in the hospital, they were administered regularly. When I was released and got the prescription, it was 'as needed for pain'. I turned in about half the bottle for disposal at the drug store. I hated the side effects, which, funnily enough, didn't include the itching you've been plagued with.

The itching side effect hits enough people that it's standard to give benadryl along with the oxy, because it counters the itching.

 

[DonQuixote]

Glad to hear everything went smoothly Kuli.

My reference was about the raft conversation - and you not wanting to use a splintery wooden raft.
I'll chalk it up to coming out of surgery drug mental cloud.

Welcome home.

 

[LeicsDom]

Congratulations on your final step towards pain free mobility

 

[gsdx]

The itching side effect hits enough people that it's standard to give benadryl along with the oxy, because it counters the itching.

Actually, I think I might have preferred the itching rather than being blocked up for a week (and off and on for weeks after).

 

[Keeland]

How are you getting around? Crutches again? A walker?

Could the Bams convert the truck transmission to an automatic if you read the instructions to him?

I wish you a speedy and (more than, considering what it was before) full recovery, Kulindahr.

 

[medic1]

You were released less than 24 hours after major surgery, wow, here you would just be getting out of bed and sitting in a chair. Your pain tolerance level must be very high indeed. I wish you a speedy and uneventful recovery.

 

[DonQuixote]

How is Kuli doing today/tonight?

 

[Kulindahr]

Glad to hear everything went smoothly Kuli.

My reference was about the raft conversation - and you not wanting to use a splintery wooden raft.
I'll chalk it up to coming out of surgery drug mental cloud.

Welcome home.

I don't like splinters in me bum.

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Actually, I think I might have preferred the itching rather than being blocked up for a week (and off and on for weeks after).

Oh, there are meds for those side effects, too.

 

[Kulindahr]

Congratulations on your final step towards pain free mobility

From your thoughts to the Creator's ears!

 

[Kulindahr]

You were released less than 24 hours after major surgery, wow, here you would just be getting out of bed and sitting in a chair. Your pain tolerance level must be very high indeed. I wish you a speedy and uneventful recovery.

My doctors -- hip surgeon and pain management doc -- both say my pain tolerance is high. The surgeon says that he has never had a patient going about even on crutches with the amount of deterioration in either of my hips, and from looking at the Xrays my pain doc says it's almost inhuman how little pain medication I get by on. I guess they know what they're talking about.


"Less than 24 hours" -- looking at that makes it scary. It also gets scary: I have no control at all over the right hip, so I have to pay constant attention during any movement to what will happen if I just let physics run the show.

Um, it's already been "eventful": so exited I was back, Bammer jumped up on the bed and crashed into my hip. The only way I managed to keep from passing out was slamming a crutch between him and me. Now he isn't allowed to join me on the bed till I've got that barrier in place.

 

[Kulindahr]

How is Kuli doing today/tonight?

Since it was about time to get up for another canna cap and oxy, and replenish my drink supply, I took a few minutes to check in here. It's a serious process to get me into the recliner where the laptop is and get seated -- took me almost forty seconds from reaching the chair to actually getting settled enough to start the laptop. Yes, I could use it on the bed, where my options for positioning are more numerous, but it's massive enough it could be a serious obstacle at times -- a book I can just drop and ignore; dropping the laptop isn't so easy. In a few days I may be ready to risk it.

Bammer is right here practically in adoration; he has his chin on my chair edge and is looking at me dreamily. Of course, he may be scamming for a second dental stick.....


So long as I've kept the right hip under control, my pain today hasn't passed a 6 on the scale (mine goes beyond 10; 11 is when the pain is so harsh vision starts closing in, 12 is when it's enough to pass out [which I did a couple of times while the other hip recovered]). The highest pain at all was only about a 9, which is a relief, since yesterday 11 wasn't uncommon.


I keep trying to recall where I left Austin, but it's elusive. I need to know in order to get the newest Fit for Life chapter done -- assuming my thoughts are coherent enough to dare finishing and editing.

 

[LeicsDom]

It's a serious process to get me into the recliner where the laptop is and get seated -- took me almost forty seconds from reaching the chair to actually getting settled enough to start the laptop.

Look upon it as occupational physiotherapy

 

[gsdx]

Oh, there are meds for those side effects, too.

And I received all of them whilst in hospital, including the 'anally-invasive' one. Still, that wasn't even as bad as a foul-tasting liquid they made me drink.

 

[DonQuixote]

Kuli,
If you're down into the 6 range, that's a great step.
The hip needs to set in and your musculature and ligaments and such learn to dance together again.
And, I know, they have to learn to crawl and walk, first.

 

[bankside]

I keep trying to recall where I left Austin, but it's elusive. I need to know in order to get the newest Fit for Life chapter done -- assuming my thoughts are coherent enough to dare finishing and editing.

You had an entertaining period of variable lucidity with your last hip - or rather with the painkillers that went along with it. By the appearance of your posts, there doesn't seem to be much of an effect this time. Do you have a different pain control methodology this time?

 

[Kulindahr]

Kuli,
If you're down into the 6 range, that's a great step.
The hip needs to set in and your musculature and ligaments and such learn to dance together again.
And, I know, they have to learn to crawl and walk, first.

Crawling is a pain. With the yellow crap they painted on my right leg, moving that knee across anything, including fresh smooth sheets, is like trying to skate on sandpaper in rubber boots.

 

[Kulindahr]

You had an entertaining period of variable lucidity with your last hip - or rather with the painkillers that went along with it. By the appearance of your posts, there doesn't seem to be much of an effect this time. Do you have a different pain control methodology this time?

My pain control methodology so far is sleep, wake up, take enough pills to get sleepy, then go back to sleep.

I'm definitely having "variable lucidity" -- I recall yesterday staring at Bammer and repeatedly telling him he was "the dog"; and more than once I've found myself in the kitchen and had no clue why I was there.

I suspect my variable lucidity last time was more on display because it didn't hurt so bloody much to just sit in this chair. I've been in it now for maybe twenty minutes, and not only does my hip feel like it just got hit with an axe, but my knee hurts like it's broken and the calf below it is screaming like it got shattered.

Must be time for pills and sleep again.

 

[gsdx]

I'm surprised they didn't keep you until they were sure how you were going to be able to deal with the pain.

 

[bankside]

My pain control methodology so far is sleep, wake up, take enough pills to get sleepy, then go back to sleep.

I'm definitely having "variable lucidity" -- I recall yesterday staring at Bammer and repeatedly telling him he was "the dog"; and more than once I've found myself in the kitchen and had no clue why I was there.

I suspect my variable lucidity last time was more on display because it didn't hurt so bloody much to just sit in this chair. I've been in it now for maybe twenty minutes, and not only does my hip feel like it just got hit with an axe, but my knee hurts like it's broken and the calf below it is screaming like it got shattered.

Must be time for pills and sleep again.

Ahh well. As long as you weren't arguing with him about who was the dog...."No, you are... No, you are..."

 

[Keeland]

I'm definitely having "variable lucidity" -- I recall yesterday staring at Bammer and repeatedly telling him he was "the dog"; and more than once I've found myself in the kitchen and had no clue why I was there.

Maybe you were going to give him food and water. Are you alone with Bammer? Does he have enough?