How many of you knew that spinal anaesthetic could potentially affect your bladder function for weeks, and even months (hopefully not years!). I can only speak from experience and I’ve not yet hit a one year hip replacement anniversary, so I’ll go with ‘months’! This isn’t something that was communicated to me at any stages of my hip journey, so I thought it would be useful to make those on the same path, aware of this situation. When I was back to my room after the hip replacement, the nurse...

Whatever you’ve felt, experienced, or lived through before that point — once you know surgery is definitely happening — it’s a whole new ball game . Those conflicting emotions of relief and joy mixed with anxiety and stress are completely natural in the first few days (and even weeks) after getting the news. I’m speaking from personal experience and want to share the approach that really helped me. I knew my hip replacement was happening within six months from the day it was offered. That...

The previous blog post was quite heavy with medical terminology and might have been a bit less entertaining. Saying that, I had to...