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Went to Plymouth Sunday afternoon, checked into a hotel for 2 nights. (1 night for me, 2 for mrs filly). although it's only just over an hour away it made life easier. Booked into a private hospital (NHS were paying) at 9am and went into the operating theatre at about 11 am. Got an injection into the spine which completely numbs the lower half of the body and an intravenous sedative to make me sleep but not to the point I couldn't be easily woken. I was told I might hear a tapping noise when they hammer the new joint into the top of the leg bone. I was a bit apprehensive, cutting off the top of the leg bone, drilling it out and hammering in a new bone, then cutting out part of the hip and screwing in a new socket sounds pretty drastic.
Anyway, in at 11am and they woke me up at 1.30 pm and said 'all done'.
**** me.
Left at 1pm today, bit achy and on crutches but otherwise all good, got a strict exercise regime and looking forward to a full recovery.

So that's where I've been the last couple of days, I wasn't banned.
 
fillyboy said:
Went to Plymouth Sunday afternoon, checked into a hotel for 2 nights. (1 night for me, 2 for mrs filly). although it's only just over an hour away it made life easier. Booked into a private hospital (NHS were paying) at 9am and went into the operating theatre at about 11 am. Got an injection into the spine which completely numbs the lower half of the body and an intravenous sedative to make me sleep but not to the point I couldn't be easily woken. I was told I might hear a tapping noise when they hammer the new joint into the top of the leg bone. I was a bit apprehensive, cutting off the top of the leg bone, drilling it out and hammering in a new bone, then cutting out part of the hip and screwing in a new socket sounds pretty drastic.
Anyway, in at 11am and they woke me up at 1.30 pm and said 'all done'.
**** me.
Left at 1pm today, bit achy and on crutches but otherwise all good, got a strict exercise regime and looking forward to a full recovery.

So that's where I've been the last couple of days, I wasn't banned.
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Wishing you a Speedy recovery mate.
 
I had to stop work end of last September, GP had told me for the last 4 years it was a trapped nerve, most mornings were agony and some days mrs fillly had to do up my left shoelace, but once I got up and started moving, struggled onto the van I could work all day OK. Last year I noticed if I were carrying bags of plaster or sheets of plasterboard I started limping. Eventually last Sept doing a reasonable easy decorating job I had pain all day and there were a couple days I couldn't walk at all, GP maintained it was a trapped nerve so I went to a private Physio I'd been to before and she told me the hip had gone and she wrote a fairly stern letter to my GP suggesting they organise an X ray, they did and confirmed it was the hip.
I,m still half thinking about going back to work but the 3 months recovery means I'll have been off the tools for 9 months and I'll be 70 next January so it would stupid to go back, and once I'm more mobile I can get out and about and enjoy meself more.
 
fillyboy said:
I had to stop work end of last September, GP had told me for the last 4 years it was a trapped nerve, most mornings were agony and some days mrs fillly had to do up my left shoelace, but once I got up and started moving, struggled onto the van I could work all day OK. Last year I noticed if I were carrying bags of plaster or sheets of plasterboard I started limping. Eventually last Sept doing a reasonable easy decorating job I had pain all day and there were a couple days I couldn't walk at all, GP maintained it was a trapped nerve so I went to a private Physio I'd been to before and she told me the hip had gone and she wrote a fairly stern letter to my GP suggesting they organise an X ray, they did and confirmed it was the hip.
I,m still half thinking about going back to work but the 3 months recovery means I'll have been off the tools for 9 months and I'll be 70 next January so it would stupid to go back, and once I'm more mobile I can get out and about and enjoy meself more.
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Look after yourself mate, you have put in the graft which caused this, time to relax and look after yourself now. You will be of no use in a wheelchair otherwise.
 
I’d wait for the anaesthetic to wear off before you think about going back to work. ;)

Speedy recovery.
 
Sounds like you’ve suffered enough. Make sure you follow that recovery regime then it’s time to kick back and relax. Best wishes for a speedy recovery. (y)
 
TOP TIP. If they give you opiate based painkillers, don't be a clever dick and say 'nah, I'll wing it on paracetamol'. Took me ten minutes to get down the stairs, if I post any rubbish later, it's the drugs right, (this time).
 
Harry Bloomfield said:
Really? How many fingers am I holding up? I'm seeing four storeys! Hope you got planning permission for that?
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4 storeys lol, forgot about the loft. Used 12mm ply rather than 9mm indicated on the plans, used up an 8 x 4 sheet in no time and had to go to jewsons for a 2nd sheet. Started to worry about how I was going to get it downstairs, weighed a ton.
 
fillyboy said:
TOP TIP. If they give you opiate based painkillers, don't be a clever dick and say 'nah, I'll wing it on paracetamol'. Took me ten minutes to get down the stairs, if I post any rubbish later, it's the drugs right, (this time).
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Maybe those opiates might make you realise what a truly awful person Twumpy is.

I think in weeks time you will turn into a raving socialist


the weathers gonna be pretty good over the next week or so, get yourself in the garden with a beer, whilst the wife mows the lawn :giggle:

I wish you a speedy recovery.
 
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