Yvonne's Hip Replcement

On Monday 3rd October Yvonne went into High Wycombe Hospital to undergo a hip replacement operation on her left hip. She was admitted into the surgical unit at 11:30am and after some routine tests and preliminary checks she went into the operating theatre for her operation at 1:00pm. By 4:45pm it was all over and she was in Ward 12b starting out on her road to recovery. She went into theatre for a hip replacement and came out of theatre complaining that her eye was sore and felt like there was something lodged under the eyelid. She spent the first hour on the ward pestering the nursing staff to get her a cup of tea. She was permitted a cup of tea after she had been out of Recovery for an hour then she felt much better except for the irritation in her eye.

On the Tuesday she was allowed to get out of bed and sit in a chair for a few hours. The physiotherapist had her doing leg exercises and teaching her to get in and out of bed on her own. The Consultant who performed the operation was very pleased with the way the procedure progressed and said it was a very uneventful and routine operation. Over the next couple of days in hospital Yvonne continued to make great progress and she was discharged late Thursday afternoon.

Yvonne's first walkabout

Since she has been back home she has continued to make good progress and has been walking around our bungalow with the aid of a walking frame. She now wants to go for a little walk outdoors to get some fresh air. She is not experiencing much pain at all which is the one thing that she was most concerned about before she went into hospital. If she continues to make such good progress she will be back to her normal self and walking completely normally before Christmas.
Saturday 8th Oct 2011 - Yvonne's 2nd day at home and she is going walkabout already!!! I can see that I am not going to be able to keep Yvonne in one place for very long. It won't be many more weeks before she is out shopping again :-)