Just got home today from C+ Sx. Unbelievable!!!!!!!!

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Hello everyone!

I just got home 2 hours ago after spending 3 days in the hospital in

Vancouver, Washington. I had a Conserve Plus by Dr Ed Sparling. He

was right when he said he would have a hard time keeping me on

crutches for six weeks. I can alreay walk without them with only

minimal wound pain. Not that I am going to go without them but I was

amazed at how fast I recovered from the surgery which, by the way,

looking back was far easier than I had thought. Post op pain was

well controlled with only a morphine PCA. I changed over to 5 mg of

Oxycodone on post op day #1 and was to have had only Vicodin but I

itched so much. I just got back from the store after driving myself

and shopping. I can go for 6-8 hours without any pain medicine so

driving is not an issue. I feel no foreign body sensation from the

device and my range of motion is already far greater than before. I

cannot tell that this is not my own hip joint. I'm so excited I

can't stand it!

Thanks for all the eamils and phone calls and for Peggy's book which

made it easier to proceed. AS SOON as my other hip starts to hurt

I'm going for it rather than waste another 5 years.

Todd Eggen