Bionic girl: The second THR

JPT

@Nurina it sounds like you are doing really well and making good progress much earlier than before which is fabulous. So pleased that you are only on paracetamol now and walking around so well already. You will be more than ready for celebrating Christmas and feeling so much stronger. Keep going, you are doing great. Julie x

Nurina

Thanks @Fran54 and @JPT I'm very happy indeed. I hope you celebrate Christmas strong and fabulous. X

Janlyn

@Nurina How lovely to read this. You are doing well. I bet you feel taller too?

It's good you recognise your bad limp as that way you can train your brain, it's been doing its own thing for so long it's forgotten it's you that's in charge!

Nurina

@Janlyn My brain is my worst enemy! I have to make it realise than I don’t need to lean on my left leg. Bad boy. Yes. I walk much straighter and I don’t feel I’m walking like Quasimodo. It’s amazing my body feel free because nothing is pulling it down anymore. Now that the pain is fading, the exercises are very easy. I can lift my legs laterally wide open without any effort. I can’t believe it. I don’t even mind to sleep on my back anymore, Janet.

Janlyn

@Nurina - that's such good progress - even not minding sleeping on your back. Compared to last time it's all incredible. But no surprise really because this time you're all ready to get your muscles toned, recover from surgery and get back to living.

I know what you mean about training your brain. I keep thinking I'm standing up straight and then I catch myself on my ring doorbell camera and I'm hunched over!

Well done with the exercises and I'm looking forward to what you get up to next!

Nurina

Week 3

I’m so happy with my recovery. After all the pain and disability I’ve been living for years, I can’t believe I’m seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. I have very tight muscles all around my hips and I feel very stiff but nothing compared with the hell I was living before.. My other leg is learning again a new posture and it’s also very sore so I feel two tennis balls on each side of my buttocks. I’ve seen myself walking, reflected on a shop window and my legs are completely even and straight. I’ve had knocked knees for months, due to the tilted pelvis and the leg length discrepancy, and I thought my legs would be like that forever.

I can slowly do stairs grabbing the hand rails. I can use a normal toilet Yay!. I can walk without crutches at home but I still have a big limp. I use one crutch outside and two if I’m walking longer. I don’t want to walk much until my muscles are stronger and my limp is corrected. Anyway, it’s wet outside and I don’t want to slip and fall over. I struggle during nights with stiffness and hate, HATE! sleeping on my back. I booked in January the same private physio that helped me with my first leg, after getting permission to drive from my consultant.

I went yesterday to the cinema on my own to watch the movie Wicked which is almost three hours long. I sat on the first row, the closest seat to the exit door so, in case I wanted to leave earlier, I wouldn’t need to climb down stairs in the darkness with crutches. I had to move a lot and stretch my legs though. When I stood up I had to unfold like I was made of cardboard.

My two scars are astonishing symmetrical but the new one is better closed than the first. I’m using E45 as @Trish9556 recommends.

I wish my fellow recently replaced a good healing. Every will pass soon. X

Janlyn

Oh wow, @Nurina it's wonderful your legs are completely even and straight. I'm so happy you're making such good progress now, you really suffered last time so it's so good to hear now it's all good news.

I agree you don't want to be walking in the wet and risking slipping and falling over. I admit I'm still a bit cautious a year on.

Well done with your cinema trip - not long now until you're driving and side-sleeping!