Her indoors has had both hips replaced, and is VERY happy with them. She is pretty courageous ("A woman gets so much pain anyway") and was exercising next day. Different surgeons, slightly different sites, (one through that big hip muscle, one behind it). She never even tried the morphine.
You should see her X-ray! It looks like one of Billy-the-Kid with his gunbelt on.
A danger. There is a possibility that there will be so little pain that the patient will over-exercise too soon after. She did. Keep To the recommendations!
She hated the compression stockings.
And retain the note that says that you've had a replacement. You won't get on an aeroplane without it.