Good And Bad...
Mum in general is remarkable...
She is doing all her exercises, walking about the house and will often get up and just do it!
She also has come to terms with many things and seems to be in a comfortable place. Rightly or wrongly she has also in many cases started to walk without walking sticks or using only one.
Mum does not like or find it easy using two.
I try to insist that she uses them just a while longer until her Consultant says it is ok as I think there may be a reason for using sticks, to take some of the weight off the hip and legs.
I have read that further advancements have been made in hip replacement surgery and that operations that perhaps once only lasted 10-15 years before another operation is often required and adjustments made to the original work...now in many cases a hip operation can be extended to 25 years. It is something to do with adding vitamin E to stop oxygen reacting with free radical in the body which can break down the plastic lining that is placed in the socket area.
It is only carried out in twenty centres in the UK and I cannot find out if where Mum had her operation is one of them. As Mum was operated on via the National Health Service perhaps this new procedure is only carried out at private medicine centres.
At present if we have any concerns or worries it is still mainly during the early hours when you are supposed to sleep. And I do need to keep an eye on Mum and be ready to help her if I hear her moving around her bedroom or walking to the toilet.
I leave the landing light on all night so if she comes out of her room she has everything well lit. I would not want on these dark nights or mornings her falling downstairs again as she did at the end of last year.
The person who is having a difficult time at present is me. I suspect unless things settle down, I shall be having to think about admitting I need to go into hospital and have my hernia fixed. I have been having occasions where it is so large and painful and panic has set in where I think I can not get it back into place but where to put Mum whilst I am being fixed?
Also, I keep hoping as the hernia is now in a different area to where it used to be I keep hoping if I leave it, it may settle down and I can avoid surgery. The disadvantage having kidney problems is if they do not anaesthetise you correctly they can damage your kidneys so it is understandable me trying to avoid having an operation. But it causes so many problems very quickly, I can do very little. So I will just have to see how things go. I know it restricts what I can do and I cannot go far away for long but I am fortunate that I can stay very close to home.
Not connected to anything but I have been having a reoccurring dream...Cannot remember if I have mentioned this before...
Two elements to it...one revolves around my pet rabbit...I suddenly realise that I have not fed her for ages and get a panic on and rush to save her. Usually, she's ok but other times she is distressed or not in a very good state.
The other element involves a place where I always enjoyed lots of lovely holidays especially during my childhood, Bournemouth. It always involves not wanting to come home and stay there or knowing I am coming home and I have not managed to see the beach and sea or go shopping for some gift to bring home from my holiday.
I'm not sure why I have started to have these dreams, I don't remember many if any of the dreams I have and I certainly did not dream either of these until recent times.
She is doing all her exercises, walking about the house and will often get up and just do it!
She also has come to terms with many things and seems to be in a comfortable place. Rightly or wrongly she has also in many cases started to walk without walking sticks or using only one.
Mum does not like or find it easy using two.
I try to insist that she uses them just a while longer until her Consultant says it is ok as I think there may be a reason for using sticks, to take some of the weight off the hip and legs.
I have read that further advancements have been made in hip replacement surgery and that operations that perhaps once only lasted 10-15 years before another operation is often required and adjustments made to the original work...now in many cases a hip operation can be extended to 25 years. It is something to do with adding vitamin E to stop oxygen reacting with free radical in the body which can break down the plastic lining that is placed in the socket area.
It is only carried out in twenty centres in the UK and I cannot find out if where Mum had her operation is one of them. As Mum was operated on via the National Health Service perhaps this new procedure is only carried out at private medicine centres.
At present if we have any concerns or worries it is still mainly during the early hours when you are supposed to sleep. And I do need to keep an eye on Mum and be ready to help her if I hear her moving around her bedroom or walking to the toilet.
I leave the landing light on all night so if she comes out of her room she has everything well lit. I would not want on these dark nights or mornings her falling downstairs again as she did at the end of last year.
The person who is having a difficult time at present is me. I suspect unless things settle down, I shall be having to think about admitting I need to go into hospital and have my hernia fixed. I have been having occasions where it is so large and painful and panic has set in where I think I can not get it back into place but where to put Mum whilst I am being fixed?
Also, I keep hoping as the hernia is now in a different area to where it used to be I keep hoping if I leave it, it may settle down and I can avoid surgery. The disadvantage having kidney problems is if they do not anaesthetise you correctly they can damage your kidneys so it is understandable me trying to avoid having an operation. But it causes so many problems very quickly, I can do very little. So I will just have to see how things go. I know it restricts what I can do and I cannot go far away for long but I am fortunate that I can stay very close to home.
Not connected to anything but I have been having a reoccurring dream...Cannot remember if I have mentioned this before...
Two elements to it...one revolves around my pet rabbit...I suddenly realise that I have not fed her for ages and get a panic on and rush to save her. Usually, she's ok but other times she is distressed or not in a very good state.
The other element involves a place where I always enjoyed lots of lovely holidays especially during my childhood, Bournemouth. It always involves not wanting to come home and stay there or knowing I am coming home and I have not managed to see the beach and sea or go shopping for some gift to bring home from my holiday.
I'm not sure why I have started to have these dreams, I don't remember many if any of the dreams I have and I certainly did not dream either of these until recent times.
posted by The Great Gildersleeve | 2:13 pm
6 Comments:
FFS Gildy! Get the hernia fixed ASAP! I doubt very much that it will "go away" on its own and the extra stress etc with you moving your mum about etc won't help at all.
Also no doubt the dreams would be because of this "stressful" situation you're in etc. ...says Ows the Psycho.
:-/
Glad your mum is picking up...NO don't pick her up!
;-)
Yes of course you are right, the next few days/weeks could be interesting. May be getting to the point where I have no choice.
If so it means you don't have the time to put it off.
Now where do I put Mum if things move quickly?
You may be right about the dreams too...
Well, I'm not saying that if I stand or walk for too long my little(ahem)problem will not be painful or troublesome but I may try and get Christmas out of the way.
Mum does not like the idea of going into a home for a few days for restbite care so if it does happen I think she will stay with her sister...once Mum is her sisters flat everything is on one level.
Will my hernia settle down? Well, early this year or was it last year, the problem was in a different location and I remember spending ages laid on my bed. Perhaps if the same may be true this time?
As my steroids are reduced and the weight reduces this might help improve the situation.
The worry is that if I have to go back on the treatment with or without an operation to cure this nuisance...it may come back again anyhow...I blame that in the first place for causing the situation. I used to have a lovely little tummy/nether region(my hernia is more in the groin area)
Too much information...
yes!
Don't do more damage stuffing the turkey!
;-)
Any news? I have this wierd vision of you going to the doctor with your hernia in a wheelbarrow.
hhahahaahah word verification: fatsods
I kid you not!
It will have to be done and the decision may be taken from me but I may try and survive until after Christmas beiung as it is so late in the year.
I see my Kidney Consultant on Thursday and though it is nothing to do with him I will mention it to him. Hernias can get very large, someone sent me details of a site that explains about them and how they are fixed and some of the pictures were shocking!
One picture had natives in a village in the Jungle stood in a line and they had some down to their knees!
No way am I letting that happen.
At least mine can be put back where it should be.
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