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Date Posted: 19:18:28 04/18/11 Mon
Author: Paul Davis
Subject: Re: Surgery finally over.
In reply to: Shirley 's message, "Surgery finally over." on 17:45:07 04/08/11 Fri

I hope you are recovering well. I know physical therapy can be terrible, hopefully your experience with that is better than mine have been.

Good luck!

>Surgery was Mar. 16 and have had two weeks in re-hab.
>Got home yesterday and I'm profoundly glad it's over.
>Having an insatious curiosity led me to ask what took
>place DURING surgery. That curiosity ended abruptly
>when the surgeon said they put my right leg over my
>left shoulder while they replaced the total hip. I
>never had aspirations of being a contortionist!
>
>Now it's a matter or regaining strength in my legs so
>I can once again become mobile. I didn't realize how
>much damage I was doing to my legs by spending 24/7
>either sleeping and sitting in a living room chair or
>my wheelchair so it makes sense that muscles, tendons
>and ligaments atrophied. The tendons were "snipped"
>during surgery in order to lengthen them.
>
>Now I'll have home health care for awhile as well as
>therapy. I've selected the therapist I had in rehab
>since he takes an aggressive approach and from time to
>time, I'm going to need nudging and Iknow at times
>it's going to be painful. What is it they say about
>no pain, no gain?
>
>It still amazes me that they can replace a joiint.
>That's miraclulous!

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Therapy is NOT fun! -- Shirley, 17:15:36 05/07/11 Sat
- Re: Therapy is NOT fun! -- jeffman, 14:57:00 05/14/11 Sat