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enjoy....love ....laugh and music I am enjoying everything..... I am so lucky that we have Dr.Bose to take care of me and many patients here on this board.

I'm doing well nine days after my left hip was resurfaced by Dr. Mont at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore.

The first three days after surgery were somewhat discouraging, but on the fourth day I started using crutches, which I find to be MUCH preferable to a walker. I'm 73, had no one to accompany me to Baltimore from upstate New York, and live alone, so I decided to spend some time in rehab here before heading home.

I wanted to share my story about how Dr. Rector of Boulder, Colorado, and the BHR gave me my life back.

About 4 years ago I began to have extreme pain in my right groin area for about a month, then it switched to my left groin. For the following year I suffered in so much pain that I could only get about 3 hours sleep each night. Each time I rolled over while sleeping the pain would wake me up and keep me up the rest of the night. I found myself becoming depressed and irritable, and I suspect that even my personality was changing from being a happy fun person to a grumpy old man.

Hello All,

Just thought I'd post a note. I had a C+ installed in my left hip by the fabulous Dr Harold Boyd on 10/10/02 at the ripe old age of 40.

After over 5 years, I don't even think about having had a hip replacement.

I went to India to Apollo Hospital and Dr. Vijay Bose was my surgeon.

It turned out my bones were very strong and could take hip resurfacing instead of the hip anthroplasty he had previously suggested.

 I am on Day 10 post op and things are going fine. I'm still in India- spending time at Fisherman's Cove Resort before flying back to the States. The surgery was successful. I saw an x-ray and it looks good. The doctors also thought so. I was given some exercises by a team of physiotherapists to strengthen my muscles and relearn walking correctly. I had severe bone on bone osteoarthritis and walked with a serious limp and was pretty much in constant pain.

My name is Geoff Robertson and I live in Rossland B.C. Canada. I'm 45 years young, very fit and active and a person who'd suffered with osteoarthritis in both hips for about 3-4 years, before finally making the decision to have surgery to repair the problem. I was scared to death of having such a major surgery, but I slowly came to the realization that I just couldn't continue to live with the constant pain and increasing loss of mobility any longer. After dropping activity after activity and having very little left to give up in my life, I decided that something had to be done.

Thought it was time to report back on my lovely new hip! I had by left hip resurfaced on Friday 16th Nov with an Adept device in the end, as this gave my surgeon better sizing options than the BHR. My surgery was carried out at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic in Oswestry (UK) under the care of Prof James Richardson.

On Nov. 19,2007 I had my left hip resurfaced by D. Scott Ball at UCSD  Thornton Hospital, La Jolla, CA.

I got in 30 days early due to a cancellation so I only had about 5 day window of being "anxious" but due to prayer I was very peaceful all the way up to going under.

I was put under at 1:00 and remember waking up about 5:00 with no pain. Did not remember throat tube going in or out or the catheter going in.

5 years Post Op

I had a Wright C+ installed in my left hip by the fabulous Dr. Harold Boyd of Oregon on 10/10/02 at the ripe old age of 40. After over 5 years, I don’t even think about having had a hip replacement. I was playing golf at about 6 weeks & recovered nearly fully by 12 weeks.