Quote from: Kanye Western on April 28, 2023, 04:41:32 PMCongrats on achieving the first stage!where did you do the surgery?
Tips would be improve your upper body strength as much as you possible can before surgery. You’ll need to lift yourself a lot and support your self on crutches.
Ask to not have catheter used during surgery, will hurt alot.
Lastly, enjoy life as much as you can now before surgery
Quote from: Maalane on April 28, 2023, 10:42:33 PMwhere did you do the surgery?Also I wanted to ask, did you have spinal or epidural enesthesia
I didnt know that they used catheters during surgery, haha.
Quote from: p00293 on April 29, 2023, 12:11:50 AMI'm gonna disagree about the catheter. Yes it hurts when it's removed but it's quite quick. The alternative is having to get up and go to the toilet several times on your first day post-surgery. This isn't pleasant either - your legs feel like dead weight attached to your body, and for the first couple of days you'll need the nurses to do pretty much everything for you, even down to moving a pillow or a blanket. I wouldn't want to have the pressures of walking only a few hours post surgery personally.
Quote from: Maalane on April 28, 2023, 10:57:59 PMAlso I wanted to ask, did you have spinal or epidural enesthesia
Quote from: Kanye Western on April 29, 2023, 06:29:09 AMYou get a pee bottle, a much better solution. Also if he’s planning on doing gnail he has to walk day 1!
I’m currently 3 days after my surgery date, and was walking from day 1! I did betzbone on femurs….
Quote from: p00293 on April 29, 2023, 09:14:01 AMThis must be surgeon dependent because I did gnail femur 9 days ago and definitely didn't walk on the day of surgery. They removed the catheter day 2 I think although I still needed help to get off the bed and go to the toilet at that point. Pee bottle - yeah we got one of those too after they removed the catheter but I actually found in practice it's still hard to use, as you'll need to at least be sitting up in bed with your legs hanging off the side to pee downwards into the bottle - this movement isn't easy 1-2 days post-surgery, your legs feel like a couple of concrete blocks.
Personally I didn't find the catheter painful except when it was removed - which yeah, hurts, but it's also only about 15 seconds. The inconvenience of having to walk the day of surgery would vastly outweigh the pain of the catheter IMO.
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