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

March 11, 2004

Hi Todd,

Wow that didn't take long at all did it............... Glad to hear it all

went so well.........

All the best for a continued fast recovery.............. and that joy is

pretty hard to beat isn't it....

Edith LBHR Dr. L Walter Syd Aust 8/02

> 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

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