dear All, thanks for your comments, I left hospital on 10/2 as my eldest son is looking after me until sunday 15/2 then my youngest son will take over for a week.
I've been through this before and know that I will feel better physically it's just getting there, and after 4 operations, if I need to have another one then hopefully you just go to your surgeon and he says walk through that machine and bingo you have a new hip, ha ha that will be the day, but it won't happen in my time.
A couple of days before I left I met a gentleman aged in his 70's who was also having a hip replacement, but within a few minutes we both clicked together, as he has depression, OCD and social anxiety.
But firstly he wanted to know the process of the operation and what happens afterwards, plus he wanted to see where the incision was and what it looked like, but was a bit taken back because it was about 30-35 cm long and I bruise easily, so there were bruises everywhere.
He was a lovely gentleman and rather shocked to find that someone knocking on his room door had everything that he was suffering from and felt a sudden relief that someone could understand exactly how he feels, just out of the blue, so what ever he said I had gone through myself and situations I told him he also has suffered from.
His GP is getting a bit long in the tooth, so I suggested a couple of ideas, but unfortunately he doesn't have a pc but his sons do, so I asked him if he wants to keep in contact for his sons to email me, plus I gave him my phone number.
I rang him yesterday to see how the op went and asked him to keep in contact with me, whether this happens is up to him, I really hope so, because he's a lovely little chap, but he feels as though he can't get anyone to understand what he is going through, plus his AD isn't working and can't connect with his psychiatrist, even after 3 or 4 years. Geoff.
