P2.2 femurs June 2026 (Paley/Robbins)

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Day 2 (yesterday= day 1 = surgery day)

After 1210a day 2, was more difficult.  Waking every 15 minutes and bladder sensation but couldn't pee.  Shifting to prone laborious due to wires tangled up hospital gown and the one tapped to left index finger sometimes forces·hand to not comfy prone Lying position.

Around 215a i used a pillow case as an eye mask and then slept in 1 hour spurts.

Peeing and sleeping was better from this point on
It's now 420am i can Pee semi regularly if i hoist myself up like a board, upper body up as high as possible.  I think elevating bladder as high above bed level is why it helps

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Day 2 (yesterday= day 1 = surgery day)

After 1210a day 2, was more difficult.  Waking every 15 minutes and bladder sensation but couldn't pee.  Shifting to prone laborious due to wires tangled up hospital gown and the one tapped to left index finger sometimes forces·hand to not comfy prone Lying position.

Around 215a i used a pillow case as an eye mask and then slept in 1 hour spurts.

Peeing and sleeping was better from this point on
It's now 420am i can Pee semi regularly if i hoist myself up like a board, upper body up as high as possible.  I think elevating bladder as high above bed level is why it helps

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Day 2 (yesterday= day 1 = surgery day)

After 1210a day 2, was more difficult.  Waking every 15 minutes and bladder sensation but couldn't pee.  Shifting to prone laborious due to wires tangled up hospital gown and the one tapped to left index finger sometimes forces·hand to not comfy prone Lying position.

Around 215a i used a pillow case as an eye mask and then slept in 1 hour spurts.

Peeing and sleeping was better from this point on
It's now 420am i can Pee semi regularly if i hoist myself up like a board, upper body up as high as possible.  I think elevating bladder as high above bed level is why it helps

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Day 2 (yesterday= day 1 = surgery day)

After 1210a day 2, was more difficult.  Waking every 15 minutes and bladder sensation but couldn't pee.  Shifting to prone laborious due to wires tangled up hospital gown and the one tapped to left index finger sometimes forces·hand to not comfy prone Lying position.

Around 215a i used a pillow case as an eye mask and then slept in 1 hour spurts.

Peeing and sleeping was better from this point on
It's now 420am i can Pee semi regularly if i hoist myself up like a board, upper body up as high as possible.  I think elevating bladder as high above bed level is why it helps

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Day 2 (yesterday= day 1 = surgery day)

After 1210a day 2, was more difficult.  Waking every 15 minutes and bladder sensation but couldn't pee.  Shifting to prone laborious due to wires tangled up hospital gown and the one tapped to left index finger sometimes forces·hand to not comfy prone Lying position.

Around 215a i used a pillow case as an eye mask and then slept in 1 hour spurts.

Peeing and sleeping was better from this point on
It's now 420am i can Pee semi regularly if i hoist myself up like a board, upper body up as high as possible.  I think elevating bladder as high above bed level is why it helps

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Day 2 (yesterday= day 1 = surgery day)

After 1210a day 2, was more difficult.  Waking every 15 minutes and bladder sensation but couldn't pee.  Shifting to prone laborious due to wires tangled up hospital gown and the one tapped to left index finger sometimes forces·hand to not comfy prone Lying position.

Around 215a i used a pillow case as an eye mask and then slept in 1 hour spurts.

Peeing and sleeping was better from this point on
It's now 420am i can Pee semi regularly if i hoist myself up like a board, upper body up as high as possible.  I think elevating bladder as high above bed level is why it helps

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Day 2 (yesterday= day 1 = surgery day)

After 1210a day 2, was more difficult.  Waking every 15 minutes and bladder sensation but couldn't pee.  Shifting to prone laborious due to wires tangled up hospital gown and the one tapped to left index finger sometimes forces·hand to not comfy prone Lying position.

Around 215a i used a pillow case as an eye mask and then slept in 1 hour spurts.

Peeing and sleeping was better from this point on
It's now 420am i can Pee semi regularly if i hoist myself up like a board, upper body up as high as possible.  I think elevating bladder as high above bed level is why it helps

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Day 2 (yesterday= day 1 = surgery day)

After 1210a day 2, was more difficult.  Waking every 15 minutes and bladder sensation but couldn't pee.  Shifting to prone laborious due to wires tangled up hospital gown and the one tapped to left index finger sometimes forces·hand to not comfy prone Lying position.

Around 215a i used a pillow case as an eye mask and then slept in 1 hour spurts.

Peeing and sleeping was better from this point on
It's now 420am i can Pee semi regularly if i hoist myself up like a board, upper body up as high as possible.  I think elevating bladder as high above bed level is why it helps

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Day 2 (yesterday= day 1 = surgery day)

After 1210a day 2, was more difficult.  Waking every 15 minutes and bladder sensation but couldn't pee.  Shifting to prone laborious due to wires tangled up hospital gown and the one tapped to left index finger sometimes forces·hand to not comfy prone Lying position.

Around 215a i used a pillow case as an eye mask and then slept in 1 hour spurts.

Peeing and sleeping was better from this point on
It's now 420am i can Pee semi regularly if i hoist myself up like a board, upper body up as high as possible.  I think elevating bladder as high above bed level is why it helps

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Continued notes from day 2:

420a pain when try to move so can't move
Pain when just lying/sitting is a 2
Will wait on pain med, nurse says toradol at 530a
The ice pads feel good, it's warm in the room
Last night it got really hot at some point during night felt like they turned heat to 77. Nurse said no a/c control so the ice pads provided some relief however i could not allow self to sleep with them on as they are ice temperature and would burn skin.  Luckily the temperature got more normal after a while so i could sleep

436a forget it , just shifting position slightly hurts a 5 to 6.  Asked for 5mg oxy, got 448a

Toradol coming at 6am

506a pain 4-5 when moving can flip prone with pain

just going to rest lie prone here for toradol

6a toradol.  Taking nap
750a still hurts 4-5 to move.  Remember yesterday there was basically no pain at all to move.  I don't look forward to flipping, but i feel i could.
I ask for a double portion of breakfast but don't get it.   I get eggs potatoes raisin bran, watery coffee (might be tea) with a plastic cover, milk and 2 sausage patties that look like from the frozen foods section.  I try to avoid processed food but eat it all.

830a was pretty painfull to flip, going to ask for Tylenol, also hurts 1 at least in legs when not moving
Actually do 2 tabs oxy too- lets not let the pain get a deep foothold on my body
my abs hurt too when prone and propping myselfup
Grab a hanging ring when lying on your back and pull up- that's what i do a lot and that probably bangs your abs



Oxy 5mg 915a and tylenol
Hurts to move

1050a
After a long nap, I'm still in pretty bad pain when trying to move. Thankfully, lying still has no pain.  The nurse said people need oxy after their 1st PT session, coming later today.  That's why only 5mg not 10mg.  Thus i will endure lying still on my back or sitting still. At 12p there should be another toradol.

11a woops i should have been using this spirometer a lot more. Thanks nurse for reminding me its important. Already felt one bit of mucus clear out

I don't feel it's worth going prone with this level of moving pain.  Going to just switch buttocks which one I'm leaning on til 12p toradol

1135a toradol