Re: Thanks for All of Your Support

[Guest guest]

I am sorry for the family difficulty you are going through...but take today

for you...the old saying accept those things I cannot change, seems

appropriate right now. good luck at the doctors...you may not get the

answers you want or expect...but an answer is the beginning of a plan...good

luck to you today, you're in my thoughts...marge

[ ] Thanks for All of Your Support

> Hi All,

>

> I want to thank each and every one of you for your encouraging words

> regarding my in-law situation. As far as we know, today they did sign the

> papers and have apparently moved in.

> Ron tried to call his brother late this evening and when he finally got

him

> on the phone, he asked the brother several times if there were any

problems

> and all the brother would answer was, yeah, it was hot. Never said

anything

> as to the condition of his parents. Now somehow, mysteriously, the brand

new

> phone that they bought for their new unit doesn't work or the phone line

is

> bad (???), so Ron has no way of contacting them. Something doesn't sound

> right there. It is going to be another sleepless night for me. This

whole

> thing just breaks my heart. I have to go to the ortho tomorrow and I am

> going to have Ron come home early from work and call this facility to see

how

> his parents are. There has to be someone there who could at least give

him a

> status or something. This whole thing stinks like rotten eggs. I am sick

> about this and they are not even my parents.

>

> Tomorrow I should hopefully get some answers from the ortho, but I am not

> going to hold my breath on that one either. My tummy is getting worse, in

> that I can no longer lay on my right side or bend toward the right without

> feeling these adhesions. It feels like a mass of somesort. Almost

> everything that I put in my mouth makes me so nauseous. So I think I will

> stick to my egg drop soup. I think tomorrow I will try making my own!

Can't

> be too hard.....a little hot water, chase a chicken thru it and drop an

egg

> in it....DONE!

>

> I will let you all know how the ortho appt goes tomorrow. I dread these

> appts.

>

> Have a good evening and a new week!

>

> Gentle, tender, angel hugs,

>

> Debs in FL

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

good luck debs, and please have someone else chase the chicken....ok?? kathy

in il

[Guest guest]

Tim,

I am sorry that you are in so much pain...but it does deminish. The

first week or two can be very difficult, even with pain meds.

I know how frustrated you are. I had my first hip replacement in

1998. I am a single mom (I was 42 years old then) and my 2 girls

were 9 and 7. They were so worried about me that they slept in my

bed in my room while I was in the hospital bed next to them. (I had

the hospital bed because I had just had back surgery a few weeks

before the hip surgery).

When your kids come home from school, I am sure one of the first

things they do is run to see you. That should help brighten your

spirits.

Make sure the TV remote is close at hand and get used to daytime TV

(I got hooked on those court shows...) It does help the time go by.

If TV isn't your bag, make sure you have plenty of books and/or

magazines to read when you aren't napping (I did a lot of that the

first week or so).

Keep up with your PT (when you can), but easy does it. It is better

to go slow than hurt yourself and not do it at all. Do you have a PT

that comes to the house? I found that helpful and my insurance did

cover it.

ChgoDeb

(Three hip replacements and 2 back surgeries in 2 years!)

[Guest guest]

Tim: Sorry you are still in so much pain, are you taking your pain

medicine as perscribed? You may need to call your doc and discuss it

w/ him, may need to change your perscription.

The bruise is fairly normal, and may continue to show up further down

your leg. It is from the bleeding during surgery, it is just now

coming to the skin surface, and will be absorbed by your body in time.

If you had a clot you would have lots of pain, usually redness, hard

knotty feeling, and increased warmth in the area of the clot.

Keep up w/ your P.T. and try to increase your walking time in the

house. Try to go a little further each time you get up. Keep this in

perspective, it is only a few weeks out of a lifetime...hang in there.

Marilyn

timbo715 wrote:

Thank you for all of your replies. This is not a very fun time right

now. Sorry I haven't replied sooner. Am in alot of pain and am not

able to get comfortable at all. Am sure this is normal somewhat.

Still having pain in the joint area through to my butt, and around my

leg at the hip area. Just found a nice big bruise on the inside of

my right leg(this is the leg I had surgery on) that goes from the

inside of my groin around the back side of my leg. Am keeping an eye

on it.

Not sure what to watch for when it comes to blood clots. Also not

quite sure what hardware was put in me. I think it was the one that

is metal on metal with some cement to hold it in place.

I am not having fun now, I knew it wouldn;t be fun, but this is down

right aggrevating. Am still using walker and trying to do my pt.

Everything is so stiff and swelled, is hard to get motivated, yet I

do. Still using ice multiple times daily, and find that a hot shower

feels wonderful. Am wondering if I should rotate heat and ice

throughout the day?

This is just so much tougher because all I have is my wife here to

help and she works. Don't have really any friends, have only ben

here a year and can't wait to get out of here ( flint michigan is

what I am refering to, is where my wife is from) My kids do what

they can, daughter being 9 going on 29, and my son is 6 and sweet as

ever. But that is limited also. So I feel like I am stuck, but know

only I can do this and no one else can for me.

Thanks for letting me vent somewhat. Looking forward to chatting

with some of you.

Tim