Not much more to know.
It's a big enough surgery, he'll be on bed rest and physio for a long while.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:14, archived)

Nils Lofgren has two artificial hips
TRIVIA TIEM.
( Derpasaurus DOG FARTS, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:16, archived)

Rutger Hauer doesn't have any artificial hips

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:18, archived)

How did he manage that?

( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:18, archived)

He needed new hips
Still does flippy trampoline things on-stage though. It's ACE.
( Derpasaurus DOG FARTS, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:44, archived)

Nicholas cage
has no artificial hips
( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:18, archived)

Don't new hips only last about 10 years though?

( Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:18, archived)

Yeah, then you get 2000pounds off the government if you trade them in for new hips

( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:19, archived)

Dunno in humans.
Don't let him jump off couches, it's not a good idea for dogs that just had a THR. We have a year old lab in that had one, it's failed four times because he's a mentallist.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:20, archived)

do their legs just fall off?

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:22, archived)

Eventually we have to chop them off.
Choppy choppy.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:25, archived)

using chainsaws

( Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:37, archived)

Then honey, salt, pepper, rosemary and olive oil.
oven at 220c for 60-75 minutes.
( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:38, archived)

Nah, bone saws.
I got to chop a foot off a cat's severed leg for the lab once. That was cool.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:41, archived)

nah,
they usually last about 20 years and they will put in as small an implant as possible so that they can replace it later when it moves out.
( Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:32, archived)

This.

( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Thu 21 May 2009, 20:43, archived)