Thanks Pats! 
I’ve been trying to gee her up a bit about it so that gives me some “ammo”. stevmk2
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Well this week’s been fine with me back at work Monday to Thursday.
My wife’s been fine, apart from a few mishaps with losing her stick in the garden!
If she drops anything she’s stuffed and she was in the garden, doing dead-heading and she dropped her walking stick so she had to totter over to where I’d left a rough stick of my own, used that to get back indoors, got her grabber, went back outside and picked up her walking stick!
The whole thing took her ten minutes!
Steve I was surprised your wife is using a stick instead of two elbow crutches. My hubby was told to use the crutches for six weeks which he did, he went for walks outside up and down the street then back home. He did everything to the letter what he was told as he’s loves being in the garden and doing jobs so wanted to get well as soon as possible which he did.
Just worried she may fall as a stick isn’t much good if she drops it then has to put weight on her bad hip. Tell her to take care. X
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She does have two crutches Gabi but is down to just one if she’s out and about with me - and I take the wheelchair just in case she gets too tired.
She uses her crutch on the stairs but the stick everywhere else indoors and sometimes in the first part of our garden - she won’t go further down yet on her own.
What she’s doing has been checked with the physiotherapist - in fact they encouraged her to try one crutch with me around to help if need be; she just forgot she only had the stick that day.
It’s 4 weeks since her “op” this coming Tuesday Gabi and everyone’s pleased with her progress.
We’re all different Gabi so perhaps my wife’s recovery is just quicker than it was for your husband.
In our street there’s a 74-year-old we know who had a 2nd hip operation late last year.
She dispensed with crutches completely after 5 weeks and used a stick for about 2 months - and she walks everywhere. stevmk2
Steve hubby was walking without anything after six weeks and never used a wheel chair. Maybe hospitals do things different and have different procedures, he had his done at the well known Wrightington hospital the founder of hip replacements. Just worried of your wife doing damage if she fell. Take care
Good day today!
My wife walked down the town and back then we went out for a walk - she has done about one-and-a-half miles today!
I take the wheelchair with us, just in case, but she doesn’t need it, except to sit in today because she needs that bit of extra height to ensure she keeps the hip above the knee - one of the things the physiotherapist said is crucial in the early stages.
It also gave her a bit of a change of scenery and a chance to chat with others we know as I’m not a great one for that, being deaf!
I’m really pleased that she’s doing well as I know it’s hard for her, sitting about unable to do things she wouldn’t normally think twice about.
Anyway, that’s my report in for today! stevmk2
As has already been said, everyone is different. I fractured my right femur in November 2011 and had a plate and screws put in. Between then and December 2012 I could only walk with the help of crutches, although strangely enough I could still drive my car. In December 2012 due to the deterioration of my hip bone the plate and screws were removed and from then until April 2013 when I had my hip replacement I was reduced to using a zimmer frame.
After my op I wasn’t allowed out of bed for a week whilst the hospital tried to find a body brace small enough to fit me … apparently I was the smallest patient they’d ever had … and the one I wore on being discharged was still too big and so uncomfortable that after a week of sleepless nights I complained that there was no way I could wear it for 6 weeks. Four days later I was fitted with one specially made for me … what a relief! Having to wear a brace 24 hours a day made it difficult to walk because it held my body and leg rigid and I knew if I dropped a crutch I wouldn’t be able to pick it up, so I used a zimmer frame instead. It was such a great feeling the day I was told I could remove the brace … my DIL and I celebrated by going out to lunch, my first real outing that year.
Even so it took until the end of June to throw away my crutches and graduate to a stick … and take my dog for a walk and it was only at the beginning of September when I collect our new puppy that I stopped using a stick. I have two, one in the house and one in the car but the only time I’ve used them was last winter when the paths were icy.
I’ve no intention of fracturing another leg!
My husband had his hip replaced 6 years ago, but unfortunately it was one of a faulty batch and 3 years later it had to be replaced. Now 2 years on this one has broken and they have told him he needs to go for further surgery to have it replaced. Now is he just unlucky or is there incompetence somewhere along the line??
No Rora darlin’ he’s not. I had my Right hip replaced ten years ago, but the chromium began to wear off the ball joint and be absorbed into my blood stream, so it was replaced a second time three years ago.
Physiotherapist’s coming tomorrow so we’ll see what she say about my wife’s progress.
Today she walked three-quarters of a mile on her own - to Tesco and back.
Not bad at all and she did it using just the one crutch, as the physio suggested last time!
The thing she’s looking forward to now though NO MORE COMPRESSION STOCKINGS!
In this heat she’s really struggling and it’s drying the skin on her legs so much she’s flaking!
Two more weeks!! 
stevmk2
Feel for her Steve having to wear those stockings !
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Physiotherapist came today.
My wife say that she said she’s very pleased with her progress - so pleased in fact that she’s told her to forget the crutches and just use her stick from now on - everywhere. :shock:
She can also have a shower now and she can go out for short runs in the car! :-p
One drawback - one more week of the compression stockings!
She goes up to the hospital for a check-up at the end of the month and she’ll get all the info on things she’s going to be offered - like a gym class up there twice a week and other things after that at the local Leisure Centre, all government approved and organised apparently.
We don’t definitely know about charges later at the Leisure Centre but my wife was told £2 per session - sound pretty fair.
We’ll see later though and get all the info from the hospital.
By the way, I think I’ve said that there’s a new housing development going up across the road from us?
This development paid for our new local Leisure Centre - which is about 75 yards from our front door! stevmk2
Glad to hear your wife is doing so well.
Steve, I’m pleased to hear your wife’s recovery is going well 
Well, as I more-or less anticipated, she’s got over confident today and now she’s regretting it a bit!
Despite my telling her “Don’t overdo it!” she has done so.
Women!!
She’s OK but she’s got a bit of pain where she didn’t have pain before - well, not recently anyway.
I’m monitoring her now but I don’t mind saying that I’m a little bit peeved that she’s overdone things when she knows damn well I worry all day about her!
I’ve had a tough day at work - there’s only me to do everything and I am getting frazzled trying to keep up with it all but all I see is sympathy for my oppo who had a knee Op - 9 weeks ago!
No b****r in Management has bothered to ask how things are for me and my wife but my oppo’s had get well cards, chocolates and the Service Manager enquiring how he is - and he’s bloody milking it 'cos he’s being paid all the time!
112 weeks.
112 weeks at I am 65 and I shall tell them what they can do - politely of course but forcefully.
Bloody favouritism!!
Sorry - had a bad day - maybe this should be in Rants!
I dunno - I’m 63 years old, I work hard, I’m conscientious, I don’t skive yet it seems to me that if you make yourself POPULAR, you can skive off, swing the lead etcetera to you heart’s content
I’m not like that.
I work to live and I believe that regardless of what I get paid, I work to the standard that I’m employed for - isn’t that how it is, or how it once was?
Can’t wait to be 65…stevmk2
Steve matey, I think by the time you get there (65) the Government will have moved the goal posts and you may have to work till 66 or 67 - I’d be inclined to check that out specifically because they’re staggering it and it depends on how old you were when they dropped the boom.
Already been officially confirmed by the DWP Joe as I thought of that some time ago, long before they actually decided to make changes. 
stevmk2
Hi Steve - hope you have a better day today …
My wife was up and about, eager to go out for a walk - a short one - but a gradual return to our Friday routine of going for walks and meeting up with friends on the way Patsy.
I suggested that she take off the compression stockings as the anti-clotting medicine ran out a week ago and the physio said 28 days is more than enough in her case.
We’ve got to keep an eye on her ankles though as any swelling up means it’s best to put the stocking back on but in this heat she’s really been suffering so, stockingless, she was looking forward to getting fresh air and maybe a bit of sun on her legs - but it’s raining here!!
According to the online weather on four different sites it should be light cloud with sunny spells - but it isn’t!
According to weather reports yesterday evening we’d have thunder, lightening and storms on Saturday night - it chucked it down for hours here!
Bit fed-up now. 
stevmk2
Maybe the weather will clear soon, sometimes it is that quick - hope so …