Brian had his left hip replaced last Tuesday morning and has been recovering quite quickly. He stayed in the hospital 3 nights (I stayed with him on the most uncomfortable roll away bed ever made), and has been at the rehab facility since Friday (their pull out bed was a little more comfortable).
I stayed with him until yesterday morning, then we decided it was time for me to come home. I made sure that he could get in and out of bed by himself, take a shower and get dressed by himself, and walk to physical therapy without any support.
I hated leaving him, but my boys were anxious to come home. They love staying with my Parental Units, but they were missing the comforts of home. Shaney especially missed his XBox. Plus I was really missing my boys. They will going on vacation with the Units and my nieces for 2 weeks beginning July 8th (my birthday) to California and Las Vegas, so I needed to get my fix of them before they leave.
Anyway, Brian is doing so well at therapy they are letting him come home tomorrow. They had him practice going up and down a set of stairs (don't know what we were thinking when we decided to buy a 2-story house with all the bedrooms upstairs), and he said it was a "piece of cake."
So tomorrow Spencer and I are going shopping for a shower seat. The facility is going to give him a walker (well they're going to charge the insurance for it anyway) and a raised toilet seat. They have given him some other cool gadgets to help him get in and out of bed and put his socks and pants on without rotating his hip. Apparently if he rotates his hip, it could dislocate and we would have to do this all over again!
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