Re: THR whole leg is actually turning in

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> Posted by: " lindy " everyothername.istaken@...  

> everyothername.istaken

> ... has anyone else, whose needed THR found that they whole leg is

> actually turning in -- what i mean to say is, more and more, my right

> foot is pointing inward when i walk and if i try to straighten it,

> OUCH!

> lindy

Yes Lindy,

That happened to me both before the original TLHR and before the

revision. I mentioned the leg pointing in to my surgeon who was very

calm and said he would fix it (like it happened to everyone) and he

did. He also fixed the difference in the length of my legs created by

the hip joint collapsing.

It was very nice to see two big toes pointing up straight and wide

apart when I woke up after the surgery and for both my feet to

naturally point forward when I walked. Very nice indeed!

> oh ouch. how much of the femur is actually cut off? of course i knew

> this but reading this made me cringe, again. ;-)

Did you ask to see the prothesis while you were at the surgeons office?

If you have not gone yet, I encourage you to ask to see the cup, ball

and femur prothesis. For me at 5'3 " they were quite small. The femur

part was the size of my pinky. I thought they would be large.

And, I requested to get my femur back! Yes I wanted to bury it. It's

the tradition in my religion to bury body parts. They thought I was

nuts but they gave it to me in a jar filled with formaldehyde. Anyway,

what I got was a very small glass jar with several slices, very thin

slices of bone. It was kinda cool to see. They barely took any of the

femur off.

Lindy, I encourage you to concentrate on the positive. Consider

spending 80% of your time thinking about how good you are going to

feel, how fun it will be to walk without pain, what you will do once

you're back on your feet, (run, dance, hike, skate?) what will be

available to you that you have missed being handicapped, and how you

are going to pamper yourself and keep your mind uplifted during

recovery. I invite you to consider that we can easily drive ourselves

nuts with fear, but that does not aide our bodies going into the

surgery. Consider that we want to be as healthy and calm as possible

going in to get the greatest out come.

Sincerely,

Beverly in Austin