Hip Resurfacing Operation - Follow Up

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Jim in Oakville

Jim in Oakville

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Hi,

I wanted to let all of you know that I had my hip resurfacing operation on Sept 7 and all is well. It was done by Dr Frank Smith at the Henderson hospital in Hamilton Ontario. They perform 2800 joint replacements there a year. With $10k of new hardware in my hip they sent me home after 4 days and yesterday I was able to go for an hour long walk, with crutches for support. It will take 12 weeks for the recovery to reach the 80% mark and I can return to work then, about 12 months to reach 100%.

This Link was important to me in finding out what I needed to know.
http://www.activejoints.com/resurfacing.html
I wanted to thank a few people here for their kind support on the forum and via email, your words and expressed support means a lot to me. I still have some ways to go, but I feel that I am getting great care with physio and nurses visiting me at home. The 23 staples come out this Friday, next week I will be taking my physio in hospital.

Most of all, the pain is gone!![^][^][^][^][^]

I highly recommend the resurfacing process if you are considering a hip replacement......it's a blessing.
 
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Jim,
I am happy that all is going well for you. You mention thinking about this process if considering a hip replacement, would you happen to know if this works for someone who has no cartilage in the joint? I had a hip replacement 4 years ago and am about due for the other to be replaced. Take Care.

Mike
 
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<br />Jim,
I am happy that all is going well for you. You mention thinking about this process if considering a hip replacement, would you happen to know if this works for someone who has no cartilage in the joint? I had a hip replacement 4 years ago and am about due for the other to be replaced. Take Care.

Mike
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Thank You Mike!

Yes, I had no cartilage at all, and severe ostioarthritis. What is important is that you have normal bone density. Hope that helps.
 
Jim,

Glad all went well. I am sorry that I missed your operation but know that we will continue praying for your speedy recovery.
 
Jim,
It's nice to know that everything went well and that you feel better so quickly. Can you use a stool to turn during those 12 weeks?[:D]

Take care.
 
Jim, great news. Take care and let Nature take is course and heal properly..

My wife is headed for a replacement on her hip too... she has severe ostioarthritis also..

Got to tell a story though.. my stepfather at age 89 had a hip replacement on left side.. he was a farmer, still running 200 head of cattle on about 400 acres in east Texas.. they gave him about the same time frame, but after two or three months not being able to see about his stock, he got to fretting and fussing, so dear old 77 year old Mom(who has osteporsis (sp)and can hardly walk herself) decided she could drive the truck around the farm and let him see the cows... on the back side of the farm, she drove off into a hole and stuck the truck.. there sat two old cripple folks about 1/2-3/4 mile from the house... My stepfather got out of the truck, walked across the field and go up on his giant John Deere and went back to pull the truck out.. I guess he figured he had broken the new hip in sufficiently, he went back to work with his cattle.. a little bit slower.

Moral here is don't get your truck stuck in the cow pasture[:D][:D]
 
Enough about the hip, we want to see some more of those beautiful closed end pens!

Glad to hear all went well, Can't wait to see what you come up with when you get back to the shop.
 
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