Drive after a total hip replacement?

A empty hose is not that bad. In bulk, if you made a mistake and plugged it well, it gets to be a workout to empty the hose. If you were conservative and never allowed it to plug you will be fine. In Milk hauling the hose is not much bigger than three inches.

Now lifting hose to the rail car or something like that it will get pretty heavy up top. All in all tanker is not that difficult.

 

I know 2 men that have had a partial and total hip replacement and they're both doing muli-stop P&D work. Thats a young mans game and they're in their late 50's.

The technology of hip and knee procedures has advanced dramatically over the past 10 years and continues to improve. Doctors are even using high precision robots and lasers to do these operations now.

 

Depending on your area of the country, you could consider intermodal, in 21 yrs, I can count the number of loads (excluding one customer) that I've lumped on one hand. That one customer was an exception, and I was paid well to do it.

 

I will take a moment and share a thought. I had plans to go bowling with a driver in case of breakage etc and will postpone it a few weeks. I moved several bags of soil. One was 40 pounds and the second 60. First off a stacked truck pallet rack down to the bottom of the cart and then had a staffer load vehicle. We moved it again from vehicle by cart to garden area where our crops are growing and transferred it again, both bags.

I tell you right now that was either at or greater than allowed gross weight on that joint. The muscles in the immediate area took the load but not very well because it's been months since they has a load like that imposed on it outside of injury.

I dislike the hard fact that I cannot move much more than that even though I have the power to do it up to 120 pounds or so. The Body just cannot do it very often like it used to.

This is not a complaint, just a little note that if you have this work done wait a while before you really start throwing heavy stuff around after your surgeon says it's ok to do so.

Going back to basics. When they did the work, the medical requirement was reduced to one word.

"Walk" The more you walked the much better you benefit permanently. It's the way it is in all of our human bodies. But I hope at some point in time I will be able to move more soil at those weights in the new growing season pending about a month or two from now.

The reason I am such stubborn about helping my friend move these things is because she has had a disk broken in half and removed to free up a leg nerve pathway before she would lose that leg. She is medically limited permanently to a gallon of milk in weight lifting. But I try to prevent her from throwing soil around. When you consider 15 years post surgery with a spine that damaged doing that work is one hand amazing and on the other pretty dangerous in my opinion.

Be careful out there.

 

I do heavy haul. I had hip, part of my pelvis, femur, knee, both elbows and shoulders replaced and neck fused. Not as fast as I use to be. Can't get up at times after getting down. But put your mind to. You've got it covered

 

What I learned to do is walk one speed. There is a certain pace at which the joint and muscles will accept all day. I can hustle and run if I need to. But for lack of a better word pays a price in that area over a time of abuse.

I moved some soil bags off pallets recently and they were 40 to 60 pounds each of several of each type and that pretty much discovered the limits of my lumping ability. Took about a week to return the joint and muscles to normal. But it's a ceramic joint and I have to be careful not to overload it. I would have preferred a machined metal joint but the surgeon chose Ceramic. He wants me to have it for 35 years or more. We'll see. I don't expect to be around more than 10 at best. But it is what it is we never know how many tomorrows we have.

Went through the last of the billing associated with it. It seems that it's around 14,000 dollars worth of joint. Doctor's fee was 3K and hospital was another 30K (20K for private room and nurse for 7 days) and medicines another 5K and so on so forth etc. It's still way cheaper to replace a joint than to say lose a leg and need another or be assigned assisted living or worse nursing home if it's not fixable.