Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted, Many thanks for the well-wishes. However, I believe that Jim Hemenway had his hip recently replaced, and is slowly on the mend, awaiting more intensive physical therapy in April. My hips are in amazing shape, considering how many times I've landed on my ass over the years. All best, Jim -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of tedgrant at shaw.ca Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 12:40 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Hip replacement JIM SHULMAN Hi Jim, Well me old son yep it's going to hurt for a bit as you work your way through the various recovery stages. Trust me? Much of the exercising can be a tad bit of a grind, grip and grin! The most important thing is?????? The hip has got to learn to "LIVE WITH YOU! AND NOT YOU LEARN TO LIVE WITH IT!" Don't give up on the work outs and make every little movement a push back motion! Gently! IT WILL GO AWAY! Yep it's going to be annoying, but eventually that too will go away and you'll be playing basket ball in the drive way hoop court! :-) I'm just about 6 weeks short of a year since I had my right shoulder replaced. And yes I went through near screaming hell with unfortunate hallucinations' due to pain killers and me not seeing eye to eye with what they were suppose to do. So my re-action was "screw the pain killers and fight back!" Bite the bullet while making any attempt to try and put a shirt on, reaching for the glass of scotch, one a day.... helped much more than the pain killers! ;-) ;-) :-) Today? Yep still a twinge of slight awareness when reaching in certain directions! That too will eventually disappear if you constantly & carefully fight back with moving about! However nothing like the pre-op pain that I surely was nearly on my way to the deep six manually! :-( I wish you all the best! Hang tough and fight back! It, the pain, will eventually learn to live with you. Just kick ass and sooner or later you'll be completely pain free! You may have doubts on occasion? Trust me by this time next year or sooner you'll be a hop-scotch jumping kid again! :-) cheers, ted --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information