Claire’s Rapid Recover Hip Surgery
“It’s marvellous!”
(0:06) How is it feeling, because you’re less than 24 hours after surgery? (0:10) It aches a bit, but yes, it’s marvellous. It’s just better than last time. (0:18) How does it compare with your last hip? (0:20) Oh, world’s apart isn’t it.
(0:23) In what way? (0:25) I was on crutches for… (0:27) We were in a wheelchair to come out of the surgery after release (0:31) Yes, and then I was on two crutches for a good week afterwards, (0:38) and then on to one crutch, and I was trying very hard to walk normally, but yes. (0:45) Let’s see you walking again. So you couldn’t do this last time then? (0:48) Oh, no way, no way.
(0:51) This is about two weeks to get me walking like this after the last one. (0:55) Wow, brilliant. Perfect.
(0:58) So we are already like two weeks, three weeks? (1:00) Two weeks. (1:01) Oh, easily, easily. This is a world of difference.
(1:06) It’s just training my brain not to… (1:09) And how nice that is to actually be able to walk and go to the move yourself, (1:12) and not be depending on somebody, so I mean it’s a different world, isn’t it? (1:16) Take the dog for a walk. (1:18) Well, that’s probably not what I would do tomorrow, (1:21) because you should still remember that you had major surgery. (1:25) Don’t go crazy, but if you just keep it calm and let it go, (1:32) then it will do it all by itself.
(1:34) When are you planning on climbing Snowdon? (1:37) Hopefully, July? (1:39) You want to do Snowdon in July, do you? (1:41) Or Pen-y-ghent? (1:42) Pen-y-ghent. (1:43) Pen-y-ghent, sure. It’s where my mum and dad’s ushers were spread. (1:46) So we want to go up to the top of Pen-y-ghent.
