RE: What is normal??

[Guest guest]

Chris:

Having no pain just as surgery is scheduled is another one of those

Law kind of happenings. I am not kidding when I say IF YOU CANCEL, then

the week following your pain will return completely. Why? LOL....'s

Law of pain!

Are you on any medication? Pain meds or anti-inflammatory? If so, you

have to stop taking them 10 days (or is it 2 weeks?) prior to your surgery.

Trust me when you stop the meds, the pain will return.

On a more upbeat note, I can do anything I did before. However, my

muscles were so weak from 2 years of little use prior to surgery, that when

I exercise a lot or garden all day, yup, I get sore. But hay...I got sore

when I was many years younger too! What I don't get is Arthritic PAIN.

That is forever gone.

Lois

C+ 3/27/03 Dr. Mont

What is normal??

Hi Gang,

With my hip refusing to hurt in the final days before my

surgery, I am fighting a terrible case of " bail out fever " .

For those of you who have a year or more behind you, can you tell me

what " normal " is like? I've had my problem since I was 9 years old,

and it has been intermitently horrible/tolerable. Can you guys do

yard work all day and not think about it? Do you pivot the same as

before? If you need to sprawl out for some reason, do you still

think about the implant? What exactly does normal mean to you? Does

it feel like the non-operated leg (for those of you who aren't bi).

Chris

[Guest guest]

At 09:39 PM 4/11/2004 -0700, you wrote:

>

>

>Did I tell you that I bailed?

Jude,

I didn't realize that you had bailed. That's now two that I know of that

bailed right out of pre-op! I don't know of anyone that has bailed from a

resurfacing though!

Cindy