time flies when you're running out of it
My pre-op meetings are done and my blood is banked. I also got a haircut and went to dinner with friends. It's been a good week.
We decided to take a cab home after my pre-op appointments were done and walked to a cab stand a few blocks away. It was an easy, pleasant walk. We did the same walk last year, and it was (excuse me) fucking awful. I was exhausted and both hips hurt relentlessly, like my entire upper body was propped on knives that cut deeper with every step. Now I just have a bum hip.
The only downer is that my left hip, which has hurt since 2001, has started to develop arthritis. Imagine that. If I'd told someone in 2001 that my hip hurt, I might be fixed by now.
Anyway. The more arthritis in a hip, the less likely a PAO will fix the hip long-term. If I had too much arthritis to succeed, my surgeon wouldn't operate. I trust him. But we both know the chances of success are lower than they were with my right hip.
The PAO is still worth doing. We can speculate all we want, but what if it works?
We decided to take a cab home after my pre-op appointments were done and walked to a cab stand a few blocks away. It was an easy, pleasant walk. We did the same walk last year, and it was (excuse me) fucking awful. I was exhausted and both hips hurt relentlessly, like my entire upper body was propped on knives that cut deeper with every step. Now I just have a bum hip.
The only downer is that my left hip, which has hurt since 2001, has started to develop arthritis. Imagine that. If I'd told someone in 2001 that my hip hurt, I might be fixed by now.
Anyway. The more arthritis in a hip, the less likely a PAO will fix the hip long-term. If I had too much arthritis to succeed, my surgeon wouldn't operate. I trust him. But we both know the chances of success are lower than they were with my right hip.
The PAO is still worth doing. We can speculate all we want, but what if it works?