Day One and I’m proudly ON MY FEET WALKING! (Okay shufflin’ – but I’m fully weight-bearing with the slight aid of a rollator. UNREAL!
Mum had just arrived – how cool!
Dr Halliday earlier confirmed operation went well and that it would be only be a short stay in hospital.
When I asked about doing the other side he replied, “I’m not going to hack into your right hip, it really doesn’t look that bad. I don’t know why you’ve got this pain.”
Well, I thought we’d been over the fact that crumbling bone might have something to do with it, but he now seems unconvinced!
He told me that when the cartilage was peeled back, it revealed a mass of crumbling, almost powdery bone-like substance and that the deteriorated bone had basically been ‘encapsulated’ within that cartilage. There’s no saying that’s not already happening to the other side.
That’s the report from the initial MRI, we’ll see how I recover from this THR and whether there’s been any progression of disease in the right side.
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