Put On Home Made Soup
[ Thursday December 25th 2025 at 12:09 am ]
I am just starting to think about bed. There was one last thing I wanted to do this evening. I have just put homemade vegetable soup to cook in my slow cooker as I sleep tonight. I am invited out to spend time with a friend and his family for Christmas day. My thinking is that I am going to need this meal preparation to be in place as I recover from the outing. The operation on November 26th 2025 to replace my right artificial hip took 4 hours. It takes so much longer to heal from a revision surgery compared to the original hip joint being replaced.
Immediately before my November 26th 2025 surgery started my surgeon said to me that we could use my April 2nd 2025 surgery as a template. In April 2025 I found it really hard when my energy wasn't coming back like when my left hip was replaced in 2013. It was troubling me so much that I reached out to my surgeon to ask if my body was okay. He explained more of what my body went through during the surgery. He assured me that the recovery was on track. I would just need to give my body time to recover. He explained to me that a revision surgery doesn't follow the typical recovery from hip replacement surgery sequence I experienced in 2013 and 2015. Then he told me if I need to rest just to go do so and not be worried about it.
A big part of why I asked this is because I don't want life to pass me by. I am trying my best to live my life as I go through my medical treatment. But the recovery from revision surgery is physically exhausting. My body needs months to heal. Then I need time to build back my endurance. During the recovery I have been listening to music I like, watching some videos I enjoy, playing computer games with online friends and when I have the energy to do so I am putting some time into my website. It is really hard not being able to make commitments to the people that normally rely on me. Although the people in my life has been understanding about having another surgery. I have been open about what the recovery from this surgery is like. No one has had unreasonable expectations of me.
The upshot is that I am going out tomorrow. I know it is going to exhaust me. But it is Christmas day. I am a Christian. It is worth celebrating the birth of the baby Jesus with a friend and his family. Then I will have some quieter days as 2025 comes to an end.