Husband on crutches!

bookbinder · Post by **bookbinder** » 20 Mar 2009, 17:14

Sooooooooo 8 weeks of togetherness! husband had an operation on his hip this week and must not put his foot (on the op side) to the floor for 6 weeks and then 2 more weeks before back to work!!!

Crutches are not an easy thing to master and although going up and down stairs on his bum sounded easy... the "bad leg" gets in the way..

Husband wants to know why it is that he is the one who has had surgery and I am the one getting all the sympathy???? Wonder why?

Effie · Post by **Effie** » 20 Mar 2009, 17:22

is that the point where you say - 'Well if you don't know I'm not going to tell you!'

You have my sympathy, but so does he! Hope you both have a speedy recovery!

Babycakes · Post by **Babycakes** » 20 Mar 2009, 17:42

Did he have a replacement?? You both have my sympathies whatever it was. Mum had her knee replaced on 1st december and is not back at work yet - slow recovery is driving her up the walls!!

mrs butzi · Post by **mrs butzi** » 23 Mar 2009, 23:58

My husband broke both legs and one hand very badly some years ago and was unable to take weight down through legs for 3 months - oh joy !

You have my utmost sympathies cos everything takes about 3 times as long as normal and I've never run up and down stairs so musch !!! At east I was fit !

bookbinder · Post by **bookbinder** » 24 Mar 2009, 17:45

He hasn't had a replacement... apparently he is too young, he is my "toy boy" as he is only 48! He has had a procedure using an arthroscope to clear all the debris and rubbish out of the hip and so it needs 6 weeks non weight bearing to allow it to recover ( I think I will need 6 months to recover).

He can get from room to room on crutches, but to go upstairs he has to go on his bum... not as easy as it sounds when you have to keep one leg off the stair and there is a turn half way the stairs.

At least we have a downstairs toilet so he can just go up and down stairs once each day. On the positive side I am keeping very fit whizzing around.

silky · Post by **silky** » 25 Mar 2009, 07:18

My wife is 66 and cannot walk more than a few yards. Nor can she stand for more than a few minutes. Yet her doctor tells her that she is too young to have a hip replacement. The surgery nurse is 48 but she has had her hip done. Both the wife and I are ex-nurses, so the last time I visited the surgery I had a talk to the doctor and he said he would get a specialist appointment for her. Funny how things work some times.

bookbinder · Post by **bookbinder** » 25 Mar 2009, 14:11

Husband was told that if average life of a hip replacement is15 years he would have to have a second at some point... I think perhaps it is not so easy to remove and replace a prostheticjoint.

The consent form did say that if the arthroscopy caused unforseen damage whilst they were "inside" they would then do a replacement.....Hopefully this procedure will have worked... we shall see!

kate egg · Post by **kate egg** » 25 Mar 2009, 14:27

Good luck, poor chap, my hips are quite painful from time to time but nothing I cannot cope with.

My auntie has always had similar pains, she is about 66 I think, she went to the doctor and said she was having bad pains when she had walked a few miles - the doctor said when you can only walk a few yards come back and see me :-D

mrs butzi · Post by **mrs butzi** » 25 Mar 2009, 16:32

Unfortunately replacing the replacement hip is twice the operation so carries more of a risk when it comes to complications - that's why the surgeon is reluctant to replace hips too early - otherwise there would be a band of 80 year olds needing a third or fourth hip replacement !!!
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