This is just a random thought, but I put it out there because it bugs me. Three years ago, with the left hip resurface, I'm down in physical therapy, and the PT refers to the surgical hip as the "bad" hip, and the nonsurgical hip as the "good" hip. It just kind of rubbed me the wrong way. I didn't want to call the surgical hip "bad." Actually, I'd already named it Zelda.
So a couple of weeks ago, they roll me down to physical therapy after my second resurface, and by goodness the therapist referred to the surgical hip as the "bad" one and the former surgical hip the "good" one. hunh? It still aggravated me. I figured I wasn't going to get in the therapist's gristle over semantics, but I don't want to refer to a rehabbing body part as "bad" under any circumstances. I haven't found an appropriate name yet for Zelda's counterpart, but she's not going to have any negative implications when I do find one.
Do other people have this use of terms applied to their surgical and nonsurgical hips, or is this just a little unfortunate local custom?
~~ kate