Well,
Here we are. At this point in proceedings I had hoped to give everyone a date as to when I was to receive my hip replacement surgery date.
Sadly I have not. To say I am disappointed is the understatement of the year. Let me tell you how things went.
I arrive an hour early for my appointment at Maroondah Hospital Acute Outpatients department
I am told I need to get x-rays ( despite bringing the x-rays I had done at Box Hill Hospital back in May with me) so I go do that.
Around 45 mins later I am called into a room. I meet a “Doctor” who prefers to be called Pete. We have a quick chat. He gets me to sign some kind of consent form and proceeds to tell me the risks of my operation including but not limited to:
- Blood loss
- Infection
- Numbness / nerve damage
- Heart attack
- Stroke
- Several other not fun things I can’t remember at the moment
He did tell me that a full recovery will take 6 weeks and that they’ll get me up walking the day after the surgery ( He did mention the Spastic Diplegia and asked me how long I’d had it for. )
I enquired about rehab and he said “It could be organized if I needed it”
In the meantime I had to lose weight which he said ” I know is hard with a bung hip”
So there you are.
I just have to wait for a phone call / letter to see when my surgery date is and God knows when that will be .
From tomorrow ( Monday – for those wondering) I begin clean eating. In the hope that I can lose some weight before my op.
I have no idea how much I weigh. ( last I checked was at the beginning of the year and that was 103. 9 kgs or 229.06lbs) so I’ll have to figure that out somehow.
In other news – things regarding the NDIS are slowly happening. Had some new taps and things installed in the bathroom the other week so now I’m just awaiting approval for the shower to be useable .
Anyway, I don’t really have much else to say so I’ll just end this here
Thanks for reading
Ceej
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