That's very good to hear, Gene. On 19.02.17 19:20, Gene Heskett wrote: > We're home, but I think she thinks my hip joints get 100 miles per pain > pill. NOT. 20 yards, maybe.
New ones are a 24 carat godsend, Gene. My mother (85 in a few weeks) was right out of it on morphine patches, a few years ago, when she went in for the first artificial hip joint. After a week and a half in hospital, then a couple of weeks in rehab, she was off home. It went so well that she asked the specialist if the other one could be slotted in without the extra months of delay that would occur if she went back through the GP for a referral. The second one was easier than the first, with a good new leg for support, and they wanted to send her home after just a week in hospital - no rehab. They settled on one week of rehab, rather than the standard three, by which time my sister could be there when she came home. I think it took nearly a year for both hips to be done. It has given her a new lease on life. It is possible that being a farm girl from the time when they loaded sheaves onto wagons with a pitchfork has given her the stamina, but ISTR you're cast in a similar mould. It's harder to fit in when you're a carer, but if postponed until the hips won't go any more, then there's no choice in the timing. (Sometimes it pays to grab the bull by the goolies, rather than wait for him to catch you on his horns.) Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
