You may have put a lot of work into selecting a surgeon and hospital facility, or, like me (in the Kaiser HMO system), you may just have had a very positive feeling about the surgeon you were assigned at random. That’s not completely accurate. I did interview another Kaiser surgeon, and I did call around…
If you’re a smoker, your surgeon will require you to quit smoking, for a whole set of reasons related to how it compromises your cardiovascular and respiratory systems. There’s a very good mind-training CD for this. By the way, this is equally true for smoking cannabis, if that’s something you do. Medical cannabis has been…
When you travel, do you start laying out clothes and toiletries a week in advance, or throw a bunch of stuff into a bag at the last minute? If you are in the latter camp, I suggest you get some assistance in building a list and making your way through it. You could think of…
Each of the below deserve their own post, but for now I’ll just list the tools I used, so you can have a sense of what you might be game to put into your own bag of tricks. Cold Therapy Mind training visualizations: Peggy Huddleston’s Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster, and De-Discomfort and Surgical Support from Hemi-Sync Exercises for…
How much of your life can you put on autopilot? Can you set bills up for autopay? Think about all the chores you do in a week and who can do them for you. Do whatever you can to create a block of time that is solely about your healing. I can tell you from experience…
It’s a fair question: what kind of clothes will you wish you had? Of course, with Amazon, you can get anything you need pretty quickly, but here are my recommendations to have on hand. Plan ahead so you can be free of cares. These suggestions are specifically for folks getting a joint replacement, but they…
Transcript take a slow deep breath… and imagine that your child, or your beloved partner, is preparing to undergo a major surgery. How much support and care do you wish for them to have? Would you make sure they had nourishing food and remembered to keep hydrated? Would you encourage them to prepare themselves mentally and…
What about doing both at once? If you’re in relatively good shape and thus getting the anterior or superior approach, and you are going to need them both done eventually, I strongly recommend getting the two-for-one special. Of course, this assumes: your surgeon believes you to be a good candidate for a double. your surgeon does double…
Words matter. Words trigger thoughts… thoughts trigger feelings… and feelings can easily manifest as sensations in the body. And we already have enough sensations in our bodies. Let’s choose our words with intention, so we can stay calm and clear with energy available for what we need to do. Whether pain is big or small, if we use…
Having anxious thoughts? Here’s a remedy. During the weeks before the procedure, an image would leap into my mind of the surgeon sawing away at my leg. It was horrific. And during the first four or five weeks after the surgery, I would occasionally feel a pressure at the front of one hip and the image leapt to mind of…