OT: Slowly but Surely

As you all know, I had hip replacement surgery 2-1/2 weeks ago. I'm doing really well; am sore but no where near the way it was right after surgery. And compared to the pain before the surgery -- as everyone says -- it's a different kind of pain altogether. There are actually times where nothing hurts and it's an amazing feeling. In fact, oday I forgot to take the afternoon Tylenol, so I'm getting pretty achy right now. I'll take the prescription stuff just before bed (that's when I really need it anyway, as the hip gets stiff & sore still from laying on it for hours).

I'm also getting up and around more (still using a walker) and next week meet with a therapist for transitioning to a cane. Am still doing the PT 3x per day and it is still brutal :) but I see improvement every day and I am so thankful to have finally gotten this done!

As of this week I am now supposed to go up and down stairs (using a cane and the railing) more than once a day (DH 'escorts' me to make sure I don't tumble down and then carries up the walker and commode!). So this evening I went up to my sewing room and spent a totally BLISSFUL hour and a half getting acquainted with my new toy - a binder attachment for my coverstitch machine. What a treat!

-Irene

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IMS
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Glad to hear you're making progress! Hang in there with the PT (which DH referred to as Physical Torture - no offense to those wonderful therapists!) - as you know, it's crucial to your success down the road. I'll bet you'll be feeling like a totally new person in a couple of weeks.

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Louise in Iowa

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Taria

This is wonderful news! Continued fast recovery wishes are headed your way. Donna

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dealer83

Waaaah! I can't believe they're thinking you should be going up and down stairs already, but what do I know? They've gotten so they just about make you drive yourself home after by-pass surgery. Wonderful to hear from you, Irene, and so very, very glad everything is going so well. Now. What in the world is a binder attachment for a coverstitch machine? Polly AL/MS gulf coast 106°

"Taria" This sounds like great news Irene. You keep healing

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Polly Esther

If they start having Irene haul laundry up and down stairs we are all going to show up and protest! Thanks for the reality check on the temp. Polly. I was hoping you guys were cooler than that. Are the gators griping as much as me? Taria

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Taria

Hi Polly, and thanks for the kind words :)

I know what you mean! Learning how to go up and down the steps was part of the 3rd day of PT at the hospital (only 4 steps at that point)

-- I thought they were crazy but I did it, along with all the other hip and knee replacement patients (about 8 total were in my PT group)!

A coverstitch machine makes the dual and triple-needle stitching on hems like you see on t-shirts and other knit clothing. The stitching looks like the stitches you get when using a twin or tripple needle on a sewing machine. I got my machine a few months ago, and LOVE it. I'm short, and have been learning to use it by shortening and hemming up all my knit shirt hems and sleeves!

So, for something to learn (and, yes, play) with while I was home recuperating with the hip, I bought a binder attachment for it. This attachment will make a bound neckline or edge as seen on store bought clothes; you sew and attach a binding to the neckline or sleeve in one simple step.

-Irene

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IMS

Thanks, Taria. I'm amazed at how much as changed compared to when my mom had her hip surgery about 15 years ago.

-Irene

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IMS

Thanks, Louise! I love that PT = "Physical Torture!" I'll have to tell the therapist that :)

-Irene

referred to as Physical Torture - no

success down the road. I'll bet

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IMS

Thanks, Donna!

-Irene

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IMS

Oh my, Irene. Such a difference in your approach and mine. I say, "I'm going to do this if it kills me." You say, " Oh what fun". We must pray for my attitude . . . and oh how I admire yours. Polly

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Polly Esther

I don't know if they are right ... and I don't know who bothered to calculate but 'they say' that gators only bother to breathe about every 6 minutes. Other than that, they just slop slowly down into the wet mud. Unless, of course, somebody sends them something truly gourmet like an insurance adjuster or an incompetent medic. Polly

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Polly Esther

This is good to hear, Irene. I remember my FIL saying that the exercises were the worst part! But, he recovered very well, because of them. So, as everyone says, don't be tempted to ease up on them once you are doing a bit better. It is a finite torture at least! and the end result will be so good. Good luck with the stairs .... I bet you have to learn a whole new way of moving? . In message , IMS@?.?.invalid writes

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Pat S

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Michelle G.

Another one is 'pain and torture'. But it's soooo good for you! LOL

Congrats on making it to your studio!

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

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Leslie& The Furbabies in MO.

This is excellent news and I am very happy for you. Be careful on those stairs but keep climbing them - literally and figuratively.

Rita

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Rita L. in MA

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