Mom broke her hip Monday, had surgery on it Tues and was walking on it some this morning. Thanks!Hey Boat…did I hear your mom or wife was feeling bad? Hard to keep up on these threads…
Here’s to her getting better!
everything works out well for your mom as well! 
I won't be able to go yo the bathroom.... but it is like a great hug vest...!!!
My dream.... I hate my tub... ugly
night
Telling me to be active lol
Also you can’t lift more than so many pounds or you’ll pop you stitches. Mine was 5 lbs and the first thing I did was fall out of bed and try to get up. I weight more than 5 lbs, so does a gallon of milk , a Pyrex full of 8 cups of water and some oven and fish washer doors. One of my brothers went around weighting everything and putting anything over 5 lbs beyond my reach. I did pop an internal stitch which meant a lot of more tests, but I did ok, the bruise was something else though since it came from deep within.Thanks Quim. I really appreciate all the support from our group!
Thanks for the gouge Noor! I’ll pass this along to her. The one advantage she has is my oldest son and his family moved in with her last year, plus my wife and youngest. I’m home every other week so will pitch in when I can. I really appreciate the info as I wasn’t aware of a lot of this due to the fact that I didn’t get to go to the doc with her and she doesn’t tell me.
Thank you all for the outpouring of support. I love our special group of Spooners.
One last thing, I found the hystersister website very handy, they have a section for various reason for surgery and they will send progress emails for your type as to what to expect as you go along. There is also a forum to chat. Also ice, learn to love ice. If you do 20 mins every hour for 6 hrs , you get fairly numb, I actually slept with ice after I pulled the stitch, Youre not supposed to do this but I did ok, I put a wash cloth between me and the ice so it froze slower. The only pain killer I took was hydromorphone because it was that or fentanyl. Best advice I got was don’t let the pain build up because then it takes more meds to get it down, grim and bearing it doesn’t get you better any faster and probably slows you down.
They do get you moving fast after those joint surgeries.Mom broke her hip Monday, had surgery on it Tues and was walking on it some this morning. Thanks!
I hope
My wife has had some issues too, but received a STELLAR report today!!
for all of you!!Have you thought to try wearing one during a storm to see if it helps any?
Sounds like you had quite the recovery!!
2 time knee replacement chiming in. could not agree MORE
Thank you!!
I can pop my shoulders in and out of socket at will.... it really squicks my Lovely Wife out though.Well, yeah - a straightjacket will get the job done, too
Not as easy for us single folk - unless you can pop your shoulder out of socket easily??
heartBoat1 
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I can too, but I have ehlers danlos and we aren’t really supposed to do party tricks.
I hope you're peacefully sleeping with sweet dreams!
Thanks for all of your knowledge sharing... some of it reminds me of hernia surgery... I've had two bilateral and one single.
Actually, there's a fairly good age gap between me and my oldest brother.
Oddly enough, 25 years on these boats and the best, freshest produce I've eaten was when I worked in the arctic circle out of Dutch Harbor, Alaska.So would a produce farmer - just saying.
Harder to keep fresh produce, I'm guessing.
Lots of meats and sweets can be frozen or shelf-stable.
