@beachbabe well…look at this article below! Incidentally, the only person I know who dislocated their new hip, was a male friend who had an anterior hip replacement. Indeed, he dislocated it getting up from the couch so if you have a soft couch, you might want to get a cushion like I did for my eKornes chair which sits kind of low. I’m still using it today because it supports my lower spine so well. It’s an “Everlasting Comfort” seat. I bought it on Amazon and I bought the one that sells for $47.99. The company makes several different kinds.I’m going into my third year of using it on a daily basis and it is still like new, the foam in it has not compressed.

I completely understand your situation. It’s difficult if you live alone and don’t have someone else to feed your dog or do chores that require bending forward. The whole intent of restrictions is to make sure that you don’t dislocate your new hip while it’s getting seated into place. The article below however, says that those restrictions may not be necessary anymore.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11651519/

@beachbabe My hip replacement was four years ago so things may have changed. In the pre-op room before the procedure Dr. Chow walked in with what looked like a ten page document from the hospital stating the standard post op requirements: no crossing legs, etc. He tossed the document into the waste paper basket and said he had only three requirements: (1) take your meds; (2) Do regular icing with compression from the ice machine rental he provided as part of his fee; and (3) be a couch potato for five weeks because "the one thing I can't do is make bones grow". It was an uncemented procedure...hence the five week waiting period.

I had zero post operative pain.