• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Good luck, DaveL

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.........or at least, good luck to your surgeon.

I'm sure @DaveL won't mind me saying that he's had a really tough time these last few months. I don't think I've seen anyone so debilitated from hip arthritis as he currently is. Climbing up the step into his workshop is a bit like conquering Mont Blanc for him. But that ends on Wednesday, when he has an operation which should transform his life. I'm sure we all wish him, and his surgeon, all the best for the day.
 
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Please wish him well . I have seen the transformation that hips surgery can have on, I suspect, older folk than him.
 
A few years since I first met that pair of Clogs in a queue on the way into an Axminster Show, sorry to hear that Anno Domini has taken its toll, hope all goes well for him and he recovers as quickly as the Carpenter Guy opposite me who went through the same experience.
 
My wife had both hips done in 2017 with only a 7 week gap between ops and it transformed her completely. She says recovery was relatively painless and quick, at least when compared to the knee replacement she had a few years later.

Good luck Dave, I hope all goes well and you have a speedy recovery.
 
My partner had both hers done last year. She has no regrets.
It did take a couple of months from GP to Surgeon, but then it was one month fron from initial appointment with surgeon to op, then same again six months later for the other.
 
Good luck DaveL, hope the healing goes well for you.

All the best
Tom
 
My mates wife is a very down to earth horsey woman who when having her hip replacement under spinal anaesthetic commented to the surgeon after he’d cut through the joint & placed her leg akimbo “I wish my husband was here, that’s the furthest my legs have been apart in years”
Best of luck Dave.
 
Great to hear, Dave. I couldn't get up the following day because of very low blood pressure (reaction to the anaesthetic). I hope you can get up and maybe head back home.
 
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Great news, speedy recovery. It's amazing how quickly they can get you going. Up and down staire are usually a prerequisite.

My missus had local for both ops and watched the ops on a switched off blank monitor screen that she said was nearly as good as a mirror. The only unnerving bit was she could see and hear them hammering. :oops: I'd want to be knocked out and oblivious.
 
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Great news, speedy recovery. It's amazing how quickly they can get you going. Up and down staire are usually a prerequisite.

My missus had local for both ops and watched the ops on a switched off blank monitor screen that she said was nearly as good as a mirror. The only unnerving bit was she could see and hear them hammering. :oops: I'd want to be knocked out and oblivious.
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I was offered a local, I turned it down as I am a wimp. I think the main reason for the offer was my full beard, difficult to get a good seal 🙄. I said I understood and had explain needing a face mask with a filtered air feed for turning 😃.

I can't sleep as I have a massager unit attached to my legs to stop thrombosis.🤔
 
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I was offered a local, I turned it down as I am a wimp............
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:ROFLMAO:

You'll be out and about in no time, my wife's transformation was amazing. From being almost needing a wheelchair to full mobility in less than 3 months for both hips.
My wife's biggest bugbear was she wasn't allowed to drive for 6 weeks so she only had a week of driving before her other hip was done.

Now her knee replacement recovery was a different matter and far more painful. I've been putting mine off for years. ;)
 
Well I am up, dressed, had a blood test and an x-ray.
The physio started me with a Zimmer and quickly progressed to a pair of crutches. I have done the stairs and used the loo, with out assistants.
This is not the one I have, it's the surgeons teaching aid.PXL_20250806_190730211.MP.jpg
 
Late to the party with this one as I'm just back from a week in Turkey getting my teeth and hair done...not really, just a holiday.

Glad everything's gone well Dave, hope you're home and comfortable now and back out on the bike soon! Just the one hip or does the other one need doing at some point too?
 
I spoke to Dave this afternoon on the 'phone, and he sounded very chipper. He said things are going well, he is mobile, and reducing the painkillers every day. He's even planning a trip to a local pub (edit :ROFLMAO:) at the weekend, which would have frightened me to death at the same stage in my recovery..........so he must be doing OK.
 
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Well I thought I better update chaps.
I did indeed get home on Thursday afternoon, Joe (large son) now has a Tesla via work now the ride home was very comfortable, I think Joe is right, it's basically an iPad with 4 wheels, the display shows all the cars around it and if there are cones they are all shown.
Naomi took me to have my toenails cut in town, the ride in her 107 is not as good as the Tesla!
I did indeed go to a pub on Sunday. I ride with Cycle Club Sudbury, and it was the annual ride to Harwich, which of course I could not do this year.
It finishes at The Henny Swan on the Essex side of the Stour, there is a meal that is devoured by the returning members and I had signed up for that and lots of talk with all my friends.
Monday was fine, however Tuesday turned into a nightmare. I had my breakfast, got dressed, and then the pain hit me. I don't think I did anything to hurt the hip, but was almost in tears, I took a dose of the Morphine I had been supplied with. The pain continued, I rang the hospital, and they had a doctor ring me back. He advised me to take the Morphine every 2 hours, which I did, the pain did subside with that dosage. I thought I had damage the new joint in some way.
I had an appointment with the physio midday on the Wednesday, I took Morphine for the ride to Bury in the 107. The pain was not as bad, but it still worried me. The physio asked if I needed a wheelchair, which I turned down to get to his room. He examined me and reassured me nothing was wrong with the joint. I had to do some more exercises, and he then removed the dressing. That was good, as I can now shower. He thought I had probably over done it a bit a and it had caught up with me.
I have not been out since then, I am still moving about, been in the garden and the workshop, and I am typing this upstairs on my pc, my fingers are too fat for doing much on the phone. I have not taken any more of the Morphine, just a few paracetamols along with my other meds.
I feel fine, only need one crutch indoors and in the workshop. I still cannot pick things up from the floor and am an expert with the pickup tool.

I am looking forward to being able to ride either my recumbent trike or one of my 2 wheelers and spending some serious time in the workshop. Also the dogs are looking forward to dad taking them out for a proper walk.
 
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