Hip, Helpless a Hospital Bed. A person who has just undergone a hip replacement is just so helpless specially because she cant move around alone. It is just so undignified having someone else feed you and take you to the toilet. How difficult not to be able to sit up in a 90 degrees angle! Normal people just seem to take for granted being able sit up in bed, walk to the sink and washing your hands when we want to. A sick person cannot just get up and do this. Getting out of the bed took so many people to help and what a position you must take just so as not to dislocate your new hip! So very uncomfortable really!