{"id":52317,"date":"2025-02-13T12:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T20:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/?p=52317"},"modified":"2025-02-13T13:07:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T21:07:01","slug":"local-preacher-returns-to-the-pulpit-days-after-hip-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/news\/local-preacher-returns-to-the-pulpit-days-after-hip-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Preacher Returns to the Pulpit Days After Hip Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article\">\n\t<header class=\"header\">\n\t\t<span class=\"type\"><\/span>\t\t<h1>Local Preacher Returns to the Pulpit Days After Hip Surgery<\/h1>\t\t<time>February 13, 2025<\/time>\n\t<\/header>\n\t<div id=\"block_31fcb011c6fe23d724256a25a8399f90\" class=\"shs-block block-news-article entry-content\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p>It was the second day of the January 2024 ice storm that crippled the mid-Willamette Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The roads were so slick that John Stackhouse and elders of Lacomb Bible Church made the rare decision to cancel church. Stackhouse and his wife hunkered down on their farm, only venturing out for daily chores of feeding livestock, breaking up ice in water troughs and bringing in firewood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was about my fourth trip to my barn for firewood, only this time I didn\u2019t bring the wheelbarrow,\u201d said Stackhouse, who is the church\u2019s preacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was about 15 feet from the house, and it was so slick I couldn\u2019t get traction. My feet went out from underneath me, and I went down on my hip and cracked the bone,\u201d he said. \u201cOver the years, I\u2019ve hurt myself enough and figured this pain would go away. Monday morning, I walked around, and it was extremely painful. I couldn\u2019t walk anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stackhouse\u2019s daughter came to the rescue with her four-wheel drive vehicle to take him to Samaritan Albany General Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey got me in an ER bed almost immediately, and an X-ray revealed my hip was broken,\u201d Stackhouse said. \u201cThe ice storm had affected this whole valley and around the state and there were no beds anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Samaritan trauma teams taking care of multiple fractures that day, one option was to transfer him to a hospital in Spokane, Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hoping for a closer option, Stackhouse talked to the charge nurse. Several hours later he learned an orthopedic surgeon was on her way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The surgeon, <a href=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/patients-visitors\/find-a-doctor\/baum-kelli-1881980944\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kelli Baum, DO<\/a>, gave Stackhouse the good news \u2014 an operating room was reserved for his procedure that afternoon. She explained his two options: either implant screws in his current hip or have a total hip replacement, a procedure that she specializes in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018your main thing is replacing hips. I guess there is a good reason the Lord brought you in today,\u2019\u201d Stackhouse recalled. \u201cShe was amazing and so personable. She explained everything start to finish before it happened. Then she walked me through the recovery process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The surgery and recovery lasted nearly five hours. Stackhouse remembers asking to get up and walk as soon as he recovered from the anesthesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe nurses on the floor walked along side me,\u201d Stackhouse said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walking as soon as possible after hip surgery is the healthiest recipe for a full recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Samaritan-based study on recovery from hip injury earned surgeon <a href=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/patients-visitors\/find-a-doctor\/wood-robert-1356921845\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robert Wood, DO<\/a>, a national first place award at the American Osteopathic Academy of Orthopedics. The research showed patients with a hip fracture treated with surgery who did not take steps in the first three days after surgery had an 18 times higher risk of dying within the first 90 days after surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf we are aggressive about getting patients up and moving in those first days after surgery, we significantly reduce their risk of mortality,\u201d Dr. Wood said. When Stackhouse arrived back home, he took the recommendation to heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI walked every hour or hour and half,\u201d Stackhouse said. \u201cThe first few days were inside the house and the hip never hurt. Then I started walking from the house to the gate on my driveway, which is about 500 feet, walking there and back.\u201d Stackhouse credits Dr. Baum\u2019s thoroughness at discharge for his rapid healing success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five days after his surgery, he was back teaching Sunday School, but decided to pass on delivering the sermon. By the following Sunday, just two weeks after the break, he was walking around the pulpit preaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSeveral people have talked to me about needing a hip replacement or a knee done. I tell them get ahold of Dr. Baum; she is phenomenal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you considering a joint replacement? Ask your doctor about options available at the Samaritan hospitals in the valley and at the coast, or visit <a href=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/health-services\/all-services\/orthopedics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">samhealth.org\/JointReplacement<\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<aside>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pt-pastor-John-in-church-CO.jpg\" class=\"attachment-cta size-cta wp-post-image\" alt=\"Pastor John shares his story about hip surgery.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pt-pastor-John-in-church-CO.jpg 360w, https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pt-pastor-John-in-church-CO-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pt-pastor-John-in-church-CO-120x100.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/figure><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/pt-pastor-John-CO.jpg\" class=\"attachment-cta size-cta\" alt=\"Pastor John standing outside of his church.\" \/><figcaption>John Stackhouse, preacher at Lacomb Bible Church, was back at the pulpit two weeks after breaking his hip from a fall on ice at his farm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\t\t<\/aside>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ice storm last winter had Pastor John canceling church and only venturing out to feed the livestock on his farm. A terrible fall sent him to the ER and making the choice to have hip replacement surgery. 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