Well, I knew that things weren't going quite right when I was still on crutches seven weeks after my August 26 HR. However, I was feeling pretty good immediately prior to and during Canadian Thanksgiving weekend (October 12-14). I attended the Buffalo Bills game on October 13 with my family and we had a great time tailgating, deep frying the Thanksgiving turkey and attending the game (an OT loss to the Bengals - damn!). I was on one crutch and was really feeling like I had turned the corner. However, the next day, I was feeling some significant pain and couldn't do the exercises that I had done with ease with my physiotherapist on Friday.
At my wife's insistence, I made arrangements to see my surgeon on Thursday even though I already had an appointment with her for the following Tuesday. After she had a quick look at me and discussed my pain she sent me down for x-rays. To make a long story short, the x-rays showed that my cup had moved, to my untrained eye, about 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch compared to the x-rays taken three weeks before.
As a result, I am having another surgery tomorrow to have the cup removed and replaced with a more strongly anchored one. The device was Biomet. She says that she has only ever had this happen to one other patient who jumped off a ladder. I can't recall doing anything specific that would have caused this - at the game on the 13th I was sitting for most of the day either at the tailgate or in my seat in the stadium, so I doubt that that had anything to do with it. Perhaps the cup had been moving beforehand and that was resulting in my delayed recovery.
My surgeon says that the cup that she is going to use this time will have deeper anchors as opposes to the fins on the Biomet device. My question is why wouldn't they use a more strongly anchored device in all cases if this happens in even a very small percentage of cases?
This is disappointing on a number of fronts as my recovery will now begin from scratch nine weeks after my original surgery date. I coach a team of 15 year old competitive hockey players and this further delays my return to the ice - it's very difficult to run practices from the bench even with three capable assistants. Also, we are taking the team to Eurpoe over the Christmas Break and have planned a ski day in the Austrian Alps. Skiing has been a life-long passion of mine and, never having skied in Eurpoe, I was very much looking forward to the day in hopes that my recovery would have progressed enough to do at least a few runs. Unfortunately, I will now definitely just be a spectator for sure.