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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 85887" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>The fat embolism, when it happens - it DOES come from the bone, it's a fragment of bone marrow which breaks loose. Talk to the doctor about the risks - yes, it can happen and like all risks needs to be considered against the alternatives (which can include constant pain and immobility to the point where some would think life is not worth living?) </p><p></p><p>There are always risks, but fewer these days as medical science improves. The risk is from the surgery itself. Another similar risk is from a combination of factors immediate post-op, and that is the possibility of a clot forming somewhere in the legs due to immobility, and then that clot moving and ending up somewhere nasty (similar to people who get thrombosis while flying in a plane - it's not the flying, or the surgery, that's the problem here, it's the immobility).</p><p></p><p>Back when easy child was very young, we lost a neighbour to a clot like that, after he had his second hip replacement done. He had, in my opinion, been discharged from hospital too soon and had taken off his elastic stockings when told on discharge to leave them on. When he couldn't put them back on by himself, he didn't ask for help but just left it. I was very fond of the man but I remember telling him to get his stocking back on or call the District Nurse to help him - it would have cost him nothing to do so, her service was free.</p><p></p><p>But that was 20 years ago. They do it differently now. </p><p></p><p>I've known a lot of people who have had hips and/or knees replaced, he is the only one I've known who had any problems, and he also undermined the doctors' attempts to protect him from what eventually happened.</p><p>I had a number of elderly relatives while I was growing up, who were not able to have surgery like this because it did not exist. They were increasingly miserable, suicidal. Cursed with longevity, one said.</p><p></p><p>The biggest problem with our increasingly long life span is we don't get more youth, we just get more time spent being OLD. The best we can do is use what we can to feel as well as we can.</p><p></p><p>Learn the risks. Ask the doctors about the risks. Then make a rational, informed decision that you can be happy with, whichever choice you make.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 85887, member: 1991"] The fat embolism, when it happens - it DOES come from the bone, it's a fragment of bone marrow which breaks loose. Talk to the doctor about the risks - yes, it can happen and like all risks needs to be considered against the alternatives (which can include constant pain and immobility to the point where some would think life is not worth living?) There are always risks, but fewer these days as medical science improves. The risk is from the surgery itself. Another similar risk is from a combination of factors immediate post-op, and that is the possibility of a clot forming somewhere in the legs due to immobility, and then that clot moving and ending up somewhere nasty (similar to people who get thrombosis while flying in a plane - it's not the flying, or the surgery, that's the problem here, it's the immobility). Back when easy child was very young, we lost a neighbour to a clot like that, after he had his second hip replacement done. He had, in my opinion, been discharged from hospital too soon and had taken off his elastic stockings when told on discharge to leave them on. When he couldn't put them back on by himself, he didn't ask for help but just left it. I was very fond of the man but I remember telling him to get his stocking back on or call the District Nurse to help him - it would have cost him nothing to do so, her service was free. But that was 20 years ago. They do it differently now. I've known a lot of people who have had hips and/or knees replaced, he is the only one I've known who had any problems, and he also undermined the doctors' attempts to protect him from what eventually happened. I had a number of elderly relatives while I was growing up, who were not able to have surgery like this because it did not exist. They were increasingly miserable, suicidal. Cursed with longevity, one said. The biggest problem with our increasingly long life span is we don't get more youth, we just get more time spent being OLD. The best we can do is use what we can to feel as well as we can. Learn the risks. Ask the doctors about the risks. Then make a rational, informed decision that you can be happy with, whichever choice you make. Marg [/QUOTE]
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