It feels like an age since I posted on my thread. Life has been tough getting back to normal, the hip has been fine but there have been other challenges. I had my sign off appointment yesterday which involved a trip from here in the Borders to London, it was 7am to 10.30pm all in, and I was all in afterwards but a really interesting and excellent appointment. I walked miles around the London transport system and to and fro appointments all day and still managed to drive home (45mins) from the airport late at night. All of these things would have been unthinkable 10 short weeks ago. I remain incredibly grateful that I had this operation and the recovery has been very fast in reality although I did have my impatient moments
.
The surgical team member I met was very interesting, she says I'm hypermobile and this fact explains the reason why my MRI didn't show up the cartilage damage and why the X-rays show good joint space but in fact the condition of the joint is much worse in reality than these tools show up. I was incredibly lucky to have a surgeon who was able to see my lack of quality of life and schedule the surgery despite the tools of MRI and X-ray not showing up the damage as they would in normal people. Sigh, I always have to be difficult!
I've tried to attach a photo of my wonderful new hip. All signed off as in perfect working order. I still have groin pain when trying to lift a straight leg up off the bed and I still have lots of work to do to be fit and strong, however, I'm so darned happy to be back to life. My kids are delighted, My husband too.
I pray we won't go back to those dark days but logically I know that there are more surgeries in my future. I am sad not to have a resurfacing on both sides particularly given the longevity that we all expect from them but the trade off was that I was fixed, I'm out of pain. I still feel bitter about the surgeon who told me that joint replacement therapy wasn't appropriate for me and also the surgeon who requested that I prove my problems with a scope operation first. For those with hypermobility apparently it is normal to have such a long recovery after arthroscopy surgery which was the way for me. Much longer than the recovery from my hip resurfacing or my minihip, so you can imagine my feelings when asked to go through that just to prove my problems. Couldn't they just listen to me and my quality of life? clearly not, but now I have a bright new shiny hip, hopefully I have overcome my technical problems and have uploaded my file so you can see it too.
thank you hippys, I am so grateful for all the support and help. I'm eternally grateful to my wonderful surgeon too. Time to pay it forward now. (oscar speech ends!
)
Sal
Topic: Corin mini hip surgery scheduled (Read 50535 times)
Recent Posts
