Hips, Hammocks, and Surgery

[Guyz]

Way to go Dave! Keep up the recovery program. I need your coffee at Fairfield

[oldgringo]

A little over 4 weeks in...hip feels good. Two more weeks, and I can ditch the walker (that's walking frame to you Brits). Can drive then, too...can't wait for that, I've been a burden on friends long enough.

Will be good to go by Texas hang.

[hppyfngy]

Excellent!

No somersaults yet though.

[Shug]

A little over 4 weeks in...hip feels good. Two more weeks, and I can ditch the walker (that's walking frame to you Brits). Can drive then, too...can't wait for that, I've been a burden on friends long enough.

Will be good to go by Texas hang.

Hip Hip Hooray)))))
Shug

[Callahan]

Tactical walker.

That just made my morning!

Heal up well OG! I'm sure you'll be back on the trail soon.

Cheers

[HURTHEART]

Congratulations, just two more weeks then you will have some of your independence back.

I am watching for your reports, I suspect I am coming up on needing some parts replaced. LOL.

[WV]

Good news, OG. It helps diminish the agony wrought by Shug's pun.

[hppyfngy]

Good news, OG. It helps diminish the agony wrought by Shug's pun.

Yes, that was painful...

[DeRozea]

Don't loose patience with yourself about therapy. it is a must do to regain strength and function. It sounds like you have an excellent disposition and that helps with recovery. I can definitely see benefits for sleeping in a hammock versus camping on the ground post rehab/surgery. I would probably recommend caution while side lying in a hammock though. might need to make sure the legs are positioned with blanket, stuff sack etc. yes this is coming from a professional point of view as well.(work in geriatric rehabilitation providing therapy in a hospital)

[Brian Miller]

Way to go! In 2009 I made a life change and dropped 50lbs over 10 months through a program of nutrition and fitness and have maintained it. But in 2010 I began suffering pain with every step from a birth defect in my hip, that was taking the luster out of the fitness I had worked so hard to achieve. Though it didn't curtail all of my outdoor activities, it sure limited them and on my last fishing trip in (October) 2012, it was becoming debilitating so I made the decision to have my hip replaced. On Christmas Day 2012 over a kitchen table I was talking wistfully to my younger bro about past alpine and fishing adventures and hoping that surgery would return my life to me. Somehow a grueling 18 mile RT hike to an Alpine Lakes Wilderness Valley that is one of the most beautiful high places I ever visited in 20 years of mountaineering, that we had visited 39 years ago with our older deceased bro came up and I asked "If my surgery comes out the way I hope it will, how would you like to go back?" He said Yes! Then his son said "When do you want to go?" At that moment I had something to hope and work for and it would drive my recovery. I had the anterior hip replacement surgery in January, and I completed the trip last week. "Swine Boy Bend" a ways below the Valley would not claim another victim as it had one in our party 39 years earlier. I felt very strong the entire trip and have self-timer pictures of us standing in a wilderness shelter in the Valley beneath my deceased brother's initials and the date 8/20/74 carved into a support beam.