Any of you old geezers had your hip replaced yet?

[Tracey]

My dad fell Saturday morning and had a new hip before 10pm.
Anyone got anything good to say about a speedy rehab?

[Paul Pless]

My dad fell Saturday morning and had a new hip before 10pm.

Wow.

[S.V. Airlie]

My neighbor had one replaced, Up and walking the next day. She was 84 at the time if that puts your mind at ease even slightly.

[Tracey]

My neighbor had one replaced, Up and walking the next day. She was 84 at the time if that puts your mind at ease even slightly.

Bob turned 78 Monday, and was out of bed the next morning. Highly motivated to get discharged as he has this theory about folks his age never getting to go home once they're admitted.

[S.V. Airlie]

Very much like my father's feelings about hospitals in general. About 40 years ago now, he had an appendicitis in mid fall. My parents were out for dinner one night and another guest was complaining about a stomach ache. My father just laughed after saying he had had one for six months.Mother sent him to the doc first for tests and he told the doc, the pain was his appendix.Met by laughs from the doc.Results came back and my father laughed again saying, " I told you so." Yup it had ruptured and abscessed. Gangrene had set in. He was out in two days. How he managed to stay working for 70 hours a week seven days a week for 6 months is beyond me.Docs felt the same thing. They had no idea either but did say he should have died.

[The Bigfella]

My wife got one in early December (and needs another)... she's 57. One week in hospital, two in rehab and about two months of recovery. Be careful not to overdo it early on... some folks reckon they are OK and end up buggering it up and having to go back in to get it fixed.

[brad9798]

My dad had it done about 8 years ago ... make sure you take your antibiotics before your next dental visit!

[stevebaby]

I was in hospital with a 96 year old man who had slipped and broken his hip while building an extension to his house. He lived close to my house so I saw him working on it 3 months later.He finished it not long after.
Lovely bloke...he had ridden with the Light Horse at Beersheeba.

[Shang]

Hip replacements?
Naugh...just those titanium "pins" ("Pins!" jezzus hang nails, those aren't "pins," they're gawdam ten-penny nails!) holding one of my legs in place.

I'm still trying to perfect "angle-snap kicks" to win karate matches...

Have you considered a .38 Special instead...?

[purri]

Having survived the 60s in Balmain I'm hip enough as it is. "Hip replacements, I don't need no steenking hip replacements"...

[Mrleft8]

My mother had one. The initial bit was very quick, but the rehab took a long, and very painful time (The break happened in December, and by early May she was getting around tenderly in the garden, but never "spry" again.).Part of that may have been that she was already somewhat compromised from cancer treatment, but from what the doctors told us, hips are tougher than knees.

[Tracey]

Hip replacements?
Naugh...just those titanium "pins" ("Pins!" jezzus hang nails, those aren't "pins," they're gawdam ten-penny nails!) holding one of my legs in place.

I'm still trying to perfect "angle-snap kicks" to win karate matches...

Have you considered a .38 Special instead...?

This is just what they did to my dad, titanium rod, 3 nails and a screw through the knee. He had been on vacation in Virginia with my brother when he fell, so I got the whole story while driving him to Long Island to the rehab facility. Made me queasy to listen to it, but he's in pretty good spirits. Up and out of bed first thing this morning.

[Rich Jones]

My dad had it done about 8 years ago ... make sure you take your antibiotics before your next dental visit!

Since having my knees replaced four years ago, I have to take antibiotics before every dental visit. Seems that any infection introduced to the body heads straight for the joint replacements.
While in the hospital, I learned that hip replacement patients have to be very carefull about bending at the waist while recovering. Nurses were also yelling at my roommate to sit up straight and not bend over. Guess it messes with the alignment of the joint.