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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: bigk on November 27, 2016, 06:45:33 pm
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After two years waiting (note to self: read the fine print on your health fund), I finally have a pair of new hips, woohoo! Been up walking & heading home tomorrow. Should be all good to go just in time for the 2017 season.
K
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Make sure you do the exercises they recommend, I know someone who has had knees & hips done at separate times & didn't who may as well not have had them done
Good luck with getting back on a bike & enjoying having your movement back
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yep - agree with Tony Mike - do the exercises - otherwise frozen joints are the result - ouch. Good to see you up and about :)
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Great news, throw your speedos on and hit the pool :) 8) :-*
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Big k in speedos... :o Hope you don't have 1 seize randomly like the old man and make him go around in circles
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Just had my knee done4 weeks ago still given me grief especialy when im lying down ,starts throbing , but the last couple of night it a bit better , been on a exersise bike this last week ,so i think it improveing. ,swim or exersise bike are what i was told to do after my first check up good luck with it
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That's great,good luck with your recovery.so are these new hips trick and made from titanium? They maybe better that OEM.
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Good Stuff, all the best and hope you have a speedy recovery (sounds like you have )any tap dancing on the agenda? lol
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Thanks guys, home now which is way better than being in hospital. I think the doc gave me the wrong model hips though, looks like I got a set of top of the line child bearers! I'm so swollen it looks like I'm wearing jodphurs.
K
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I spoke to your doctor and he is positive your old hips wore out from all the years of trying to start those Husky things you ride. He recommended you only ride a Yamaha from now on as they start first kick and your hips will love you for it.
The only problem that i can see with you riding a Yamaha is the speed difference from what you have been used to, future crashes may happen at a much higher speed. ;)
Good to hear you finally had them replaced and not living on pain killers 24/7.
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you must have had the universal models fitted mick. suits application for 1. childbearing 2. riding wide twin shock bikes 3. hayburners and 4. rugby applications...hip and shoulder manoeuvre...
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Good news Mick. I'm fairly certain that you wont let the surgeons good work go to waste! I can just about hear all the protests in the pits about how easy you get on ya bikes now.......
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gold at the nxt pan pacific games ;D
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Mick, it's hard to forget seeing you down at Yanakie with Viper in 2015, you had to carefully get up onto a bike stand and have somebody hold the bike for you while you slowly got one leg over and then you had to balance on the other side on another bike stand to kickstart, was painful to watch and you weren't saying much - probably because it's hard to talk through clenched teeth :o
Really hope it goes well because a few years ago you were regularly "on the podium" at Viper meetings and it would be great for you to get back to that form again (although we will miss you at the back of the pack ;D )
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Hmmmm......guess that rules you out of Evo now that you have fitted modern parts??? ;D
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Pete, wash your mouth out with 2T oil. Husky Mick on a Yamaha, that's never going to happen..........
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Wait, what's this, paparazzi snaps of the great man secretly practicing already & its not even made in Sweden, shame on you Mick LOL
(http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv190/magsy60/Mick%202_zps6x5cnlqw.png) (http://s682.photobucket.com/user/magsy60/media/Mick%202_zps6x5cnlqw.png.html)
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That's not me on the farm bike, it's fake Mick, or at least that's the story I'm sticking to!
Progress report day 6 (after the operation):
60% of the swelling has subsided (good), I'm moving pretty freely other than for some lack of power in my legs. The right side seems to have copped a bit more trauma from the procedure & is the holdup at this point. Still have to sleep on my back which is a tad awkward, can roll on to my side but can't stay there as it hurts. I'm pretty fast on one crutch & not too bad on no crutches. Already I can have my knees up (lying on my back) with feet 95% up to my butt & can finally put a pair of socks on, a couple of things I haven't been able to do for the last 2 years. Yesterday (day 5), I even managed 10 minutes on the exercise bike with only very minor discomfort getting on & off the bike. As for pain killers, I'm only on Panadol, Ibuprofen & Mobic. I haven't had to use the Endone up to this point. This is frickin' amazing, I have more mobility & less pain, still dealing with a significant amount of trauma from the surgery, than I've had for the last 2 years with the condition. All I can say is for anyone with hip issues (or any chronic condition) who are hesitant to undergo the surgery for whatever reason, just do it.
K
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great to hear mick. a friends wife (nurse to boot) had both knees replaced and it was12 weeks of nightmare, immobility, shocking pain and general trauma all round. so its good that you have come in well within the bell curve...now I will never catch you.. the only way I could stay in front was being able to get on and get going quicker... 8)
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Good for you. Im sure its been a long road. Its behind you and you can go back to living your life. I know 2 people that have had replacement surgies. Their only regret is they waited too long living in pain to have it done
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Glad to hear its working out for you Mick, recovery can be a hard road but it's just like starting a Husky, you just have to keep at it ;D
Hope you got the quality rebuildable units and not the cheap throw away parts :o
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Day 18 & all is good as far as the surgery side of it goes. I'm really mobile but don't quite have full power in my legs just yet. The downside is something that no-one even mentioned may happen. After over a year of high end pain killers including opiates, I am having pretty ordinary withdrawal symptoms. High agitation (some say that's normal for me, lol), every muscle in my body aches, I shiver with cold in 30 degree heat, have become an insomniac & when I do sleep, I wake up with the bed drenched after a cold sweat. This is SHIT!! I'm told I have 2-3 weeks of this to look forward to (oh joy). I guess everything has a price.
K
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Bloody drug addicts ;D
I think the withdrawal symptoms will be worth it in a month. By then you may have your strength back as well & you won't look back
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I knew you had to be on drugs from some of the dealings we have had ;). Seriously - hope you get through it OK.
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I wondered what would happen when they depatched you Mick. had a sister in law hooked on opiates, took months to find all the hidden drugs she had multiple prescribed her self....will have to check the shed for hidden peth stashes!!
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crikey digger you'd be no good as a scrutineer, they are "internal" upgrades ;D