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Total hip replacement recovery story. Painfully limping along in weeks 3 to 7 (Part 6)

March 26, 2020 marvinmidlife Midlife Health & Fitness, Hip replacement stories

A total hip replacement recovery story, charting progress from week 3 to week 7 post hip replacement operation

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Hip replacement recovery days 6 to 21. Coming on in leaps and bounds. Sadly not. (Part 5)

February 11, 2020 marvinmidlife Midlife Health & Fitness, Hip replacement stories

Hip replacement recovery story: the day 6 to day 21 improvements post hip replacement operation

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Hip replacement surgery and week 1 recovery. It all goes horribly wrong… (Part 4)

January 30, 2020 marvinmidlife Midlife Health & Fitness, Hip replacement stories

Hip replacement surgery is supposed to be routine, but I had a horrible blip. A tale of the operation, blip and recovery.

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Scarily close to middle age hip replacement. What was I thinking pre-op? (Part 3)

January 13, 2020 marvinmidlife Midlife Health & Fitness, Hip replacement stories

Having signed up to a middle age hip replacement, the day fast approached. I occasionally had doubts but pain convinced me otherwise. This is the story of what happened next…

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hip replacement story starting with arthritis

Shock decision about having a total hip replacement at 50! 5 things that worried me. (Part 2)

December 16, 2019 marvinmidlife Midlife Health & Fitness, Hip replacement stories

Total hip replacement at 50 needs some thinking about. This is part 2 of my total midlife hip replacement story – how it came to be

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hip replacement story starting with arthritis
A hip replacement story, from initial twinge to running around post op.

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