On a snowy night at 3 am, Jane had gut pain severe enough I took her to a fancy clinic, which called an ambulance to get her to the hospital for removal of her gall bladder, which had never given any prior trouble.
That was a week ago. Today she gets her right hip replaced. I’m about to take her to the hospital. My port removal went well. No problems.
Poor Jane!!!! I hope the hip replacement goes well. Supposedly, they’re easier to recover from than knee replacements (of which I’ve had three).
Glad the port removal went well for you, too.
Stay warm and safe ladies, think of you often.
Hope the hip operation goes nice and smooth, and you are both back home and safe soon !
Oh hey, I got to do the gall bladder extraction fun just a couple of months ago. Fun times. Hope all goes well going forward, this year just keeps on giving.
Hope everything goes well. Stay safe and stay sane.
Owie! never rains but it pours. Hopefully Jane’s operations will, like yours, go swimmingly.
We had a fun episode yesterday; a food truck with an oversized air handler on the top drove through and pulled down our Internet cable. The cable stayed intact, but it pulled down the mast I had put up specially to hoist the cable as high as I could above the street, which isn’t apparently high enough. First we knew of it was the “WHAM!!” as the 4×4 mast hit the roof. I scrambled up on the roof and bodged together another support to hold the mast up; the strain had turned the hurricane clip at the base into a hinge, and ripped the mast completely loose from the clip further up. Happily, the truck owners returned and apologized and said they would resecure the mast with a better support; it appears they had misjudged the truck height at least 4 other places on our street. Hope they are true to their word.
If you need your gallbladder out, you need it out. Gallbladders can rupture the same as appendices, and that’s a truly nasty and dangerous situation. Glad they got hers out intact. I’m assuming it was done laparoscopically — piece of cake, that, compared to hip replacement surgery.
Yeah, hip replacement is a big deal, but not nearly as big a deal as people think. They’ve figured out to do the surgery in the least invasive way now, which causes way less trauma to the body than the way they did it even five years ago. The prostheses they have now are better tolerated and last a lot longer, which is good news for someone as young as Jane. With my knee replacement, they had me on my feet and walking the day of surgery. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they get her up either the day of surgery or the day after. You heal so much better when you are up and moving — within reason, of course!
My cousin (in her late 40’s) went to “pre-hab” — did her rehab before they did the surgery. She was not only walking the day of surgery but she went home the same day. Two weeks later, they did her other hip! They kept her overnight then, but she was on her feet the day of surgery.
I still have my port. Hopefully, I’m not going to need it any time soon. (knock wood!)
Here’s hoping Jane has the best possible outcome, bounces back quickly, and is able to walk without any hip pain at all! We will all hope this is the last of the major health crises for either of you for a long time!
Gall bladders, hips and ports—oh my! Very glad to hear that the first two of the threesome went well. The third is likely to go very well too. My cousin at 60 (two years ago, after maybe 6 years of denying that modern medicine could offer him anything) had his hip replaced and, yes, was on his feet that night and hobbling then walking quite quickly. He’s back to hiking and being very active now.
I did so much better after my gall bladder was removed! We hope the hip replacement goes easily as well. 2020 will truly be remembered, if not fondly, in your household. Best wishes for Jane’s speedy recovery.
Do tell! The radiologist looking at my ultrasound said mine’s “packed”. I’ve already got IBS, I don’t need more digestive troubles! IBS is bad enough.
Best wishes for the operation going well, and a speedy recovery from both for Jane.
Mom had her hip replaced after breaking it; she found arnica salve to be the best for dealing with the big bruise on her thigh.
She did need some walking aids in the beginning, and found one of those grippers helpful, with which one can pick things up without bending over, until it healed.
Also a hospital bed in the living room for the first month, until mom could manage the stairs again, but that wouldn’t be needed if your house is on one level – though a bedgate or “parrot-perch” (a grip that hangs over the bed) to help with getting out of bed might be useful at first.
Do you have the sort of home care “lending library” that we have here, that provides you with such temporarily-needed helpful things, and a home care assistant to come by once or twice a day to check and refresh the bandages, and help with washing and getting dressed (if needed), especially pulling on the strong long support stocking in the first week, and help with doing the exercises?
The Dutch like to insure everything, so most people here have such home care insurance – it costs about as much as a library card, every year.
Are Jane’s medical costs covered by insurance or Medicare, or do we need to try and send some assistence, those of us who can?
I got my port removed two weeks ago last Monday. So far no problems, outside of contact dermatitis from the giant adhesive dressing they put over the small tape dressing (which went on over the surgical-glue coating they use as an instant scab). This after three years in – it could have been done earlier this year, but Things Happened. (Had to get virus test as well as bloodwork first. Passed both.)
Getting the port out means you’re really, truly in remission!
It never rains, it pours. Good wishes from a 12 surgery-so far-survivor.