Your spouse may want to be your support system, but they just may not be strong enough.
My first day home I was sitting at the dining room table (of course on a elevated, padded seat). I went to get up using my walker on one side for support and the table for the other hand. It seems like our table wasn’t as sturdy as I thought as it started to tilt from my weight and reliance on it. You have to use your walker. It isn’t as hard as it look in the picture below.
Here is how to go from sitting to standing using a walker.
Bonus Hip Tips: For the most part, you shouldn’t rely on a family member to ‘pull you up’ from a chair. Often, hip replacement patients are older, so their spouses/friends are older, and weaker as well.
After surgery, you will feel like a real “Lazy Boy” and not want to do anything…
This is how it will look, for at least one of you, if you have someone help you up and they are not strong enough to do the job – you can collapse to the floor, as if you are passed-out drunk.
Bonus Hip Tip (For Reward): I know, I know (in retrospect) me suggesting that you don’t put all your weight on a table is common sense (after surgery you have even less), but which one of these table designs is more likely to tip if you use it for extra support?
And with you successfully passing the above test, here is your reward.