Steve had right hip replacement surgery on December 15, 2010...

We were informed after the surgery that there is a lot of bleeding during hip replacement surgery...Steve bleed more than the normal patient...he was in surgery for 3 hours instead of 1 1/2 hours...his pain level took a long time to get under control after the surgery...Steve's level 5 pain tolerance is usually everyone else's level 10...so when he was telling the recovery nurse his level was a 10 I knew he was a lot of pain...

The picture above is a few hours after recovery and in his room on the 2nd floor...the machine was draining the blood from his hip and processing it through and then 4 hours later they would hook it up to an iv line and infuse it back into him...They did this 5 times through the night...usually they only have t0 do up to 2 or 3 infusions...
Steve's surgery was on Wednesday...this is the first time he was up and ready to walk on Thursday morning...the belt was used to hang onto him as he walked...

AND HE'S OFF...

it was very painful, but they start them walking within 24 hours after the surgery...

he had to walk around the 2nd floor twice before he could come home...

Steve was in a semi-private room...the older gentleman was very ill...

Steve didn't sleep very much and was ready to come home...Friday afternoon he made it around the 2nd floor twice and was so excited to come home...

Steve's new hip 10 days after the surgery...everything is healing and doing great...

So many prayers have been answered...

Steve continues to improve each day...it is a lot slower than he expected, but is doing what the doctor has asked so he can heal properly and get back to normal life...