You can never have enough...

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Today I get to bring my shiny new hip home, and I cannot wait to collapse into my lovely bed and sleep for the forseeable. Funny thing about hospitals, how in recovery they wake you every two hours to see if you are still alive...

Now the real work starts.

My knee joint op about 15 years back was done with epidural so the 2 hourly wake ups were part of the deal, except the night shift nurse (Southern Cross) 'forgot' to keep them up so I awoke at around 2:00am with significant pain as I hadn't been able to trigger the on demand morphine doses.

The following day the morphine was withdrawn and I spent the next night with very dark 'dreams' under the influence of OxyContin. I told them where to stick that drug in short order and made do with oral codeine from there on. How do they manage to stuff up perfectly good opiates by synthesising them? After that experience I can well understand why the US has the problems it does with synthetic opioids.

Best wishes on your new hip rehab. I got together with an old friend at Labour weekend who's absolutely chuffed with the results of his hip op.