Don't do this too often, and this may be me worrying about nothing. That being said... dad in law had hip surgery a couple of weeks ago. Everything went well, he came home, his leg was swollen, but I've been given to understand that that is pretty normal. Anyway, last week he was in MEGA amounts of pain in the middle of the night. Now for dad to say he's in pain... it had to feel like something was gnawing his leg off. They called an ambulance, at the time, they couldn't find anything wrong and sent him home with new pain meds.
Today, he went for a followup with his doc. Apparently something in his surgery area (not sure what or where yet) is infected. They're not sure if this is why he was having all that pain or not yet... since you can't really do a lot of in depth stuff in a doc's office. Doc has admitted him to the hospital where he's staying till they find the infection and get rid of it. This MAY mean another surgery, doc wasn't sure yet. At the very least, he's there for a few days. I know this isn't life threatening.. but I'm still worried.. and worried cuz it means mom is having to take care of everything by herself, and she's on oxygen and can't get around too well. I'm just glad they sold their remaining equines to their neighbour last summer.