It’s been almost a month since my total hip replacement. If all goes well with my examination, I should get the green light for driving– meaning no matter what color the traffic signal is, I can GO. Your ‘ordinary traffic laws’ do not apply. I think that’s how it goes.
The point is, I should be able to drive again, provided I sit on a pillow of some folded blankets to keep the hip elevated. Since it’s my left hip that was replaced, it won’t come into the driving equation too often. I’m right-footed.
I should be able to ease slowly back into the workaday world with the ably-jointed.
I have been a good boy, doing my physical therapy exercises, getting rest, getting somewhat stronger and doing these postings for therapeutic purposes. My hope is that my pain = your reading pleasure.
Do I recommend hip replacements? No, not if you don’t need them. Recovery is tough. Play Parcheesi instead.
But if you are troubled with constant arthritic pain, if your life is one of pain management, well, something needs to give. And a bum hip seems to be the ante.
I’m curious to see what my medic says. Onward I limp!
6 responses to “Cleared For Take-Off? (Pt. 16)”
“Medical science” is exuberantly happy you have insurance, and so are we.
Just remember: medical science and the Gross Domestic Product both prefer you have a long, drawn-out recovery requiring many therapies. May you swiftly propel your bad self away from their planned obsolescence project.
Heal, HEAL, we your friends and fiends command you!
Please heal me, brother! Heal, like a dog that’s been well-healed… of a shoe that’s been something or other.
You can buy a whole bunch bunch of those roll-y ball car seat thingys and pile them on top of each other for a hip elevated AND massage-y driving experience. (Thousands of cab drivers can’t be wrong.)
Ahhhhhh, massage-y freedom is the best freedom of all.
I like the way you think, Missy!
Kinky.
Thousands Of Tiny Vibrating Fingers Massaging Your Troubles Away.
It’s really kinky if they’re oily fingers.