Re: two years, the review.

[Guest guest]

dear skip........

thank you for your update...i especially enjoyed your realistic view to this

surgery. I for one have completely ignored the fact that this is really

slightly experimental. I have gone back to all my activities prior to surgery

and

even more...i had to stop and take account of the fact that we are just walking

miracles..to be sure...thank you again it is good to know that 2 years is

still finding you healthy and pain free.

sue

rbhr

3/11/03

de smet

[Guest guest]

Hi,

Skip I always love to hear how you are going as I remember you hadn't had

your hip long when I found out I could have one........ now the years are

starting to clock up........ isn't it great.......... and good to do all

those things you mentioned....... I often find it is those little things

that I just love myself - including just sitting in a chair........ no down

hill skiing, heavy duty sports stuff for this little bunny either........

The last 24 hrs I have found that I have had a mental breakthrough with my

walking....... beginning to automatically take bigger steps out and not rely

on a virtual sashy sideways as the mode of movement of last 36

years.......one part of my brain is still finding this a bit

weird........smile. I actually feel a bit like puss in boots......but

strangely it is what is called normal walking........smile. So much brain

stuff involved in getting the walk happening properly.............

Edith LBHR Dr. L Walter Syd Aust 8/02

> Well lets see two years ago I didn't know if I would have a

> resurfaced hip or a replaced hip, either way I was prepared for

> whatever outcome as I could no longer bare the pain.

> Waking up and finding out that I had a BHR was the start of my

> recovery as I knew it was going to buy some femoral head and neck

> time, thus I thank the skill of my surgeons Messers McQueen and

> Schimmin from the Melbourne Orthopaedic Group. As I wasn't going to

> be the easiest patient to resurface they have performed well above

> expectations.

> My recovery has been slow but the agonising pain has gone and that

> was the major outcome I was trying to acheive by undertaking this

> experience.

> I'm no extreme sportsman, I was never a jogger (have you ever seen a

> jogger smile?) but I do like my golf, and now I don't wince when I

> take a swing because of the pain that use to occur in my left hip,

> now I wince if I hit the bloody thing off line. I don't have to tell

> my children, 5yo and 3yo to hope off my legs when I'm reading them a

> story. I don't wince when I'm standing washing the dishes. And so the

> small things that use to hurt have now disappeared, and that was all

> I was trying to acheive.

> I am by no means cured, I know that I'm a walking experiment with

> fantastic possibillities but also with risks, therefore each day for

> me is another day to exercise and measure my recovery against the pre

> op pain.

> I would also like to thank the ongoing support I have had from this

> group.

> Regards and

> OOOrrrooo

> Skip

> LBHR 2001 Nov, Melbourne Aust.

[Guest guest]

Hi,

Skip I always love to hear how you are going as I remember you hadn't had

your hip long when I found out I could have one........ now the years are

starting to clock up........ isn't it great.......... and good to do all

those things you mentioned....... I often find it is those little things

that I just love myself - including just sitting in a chair........ no down

hill skiing, heavy duty sports stuff for this little bunny either........

The last 24 hrs I have found that I have had a mental breakthrough with my

walking....... beginning to automatically take bigger steps out and not rely

on a virtual sashy sideways as the mode of movement of last 36

years.......one part of my brain is still finding this a bit

weird........smile. I actually feel a bit like puss in boots......but

strangely it is what is called normal walking........smile. So much brain

stuff involved in getting the walk happening properly.............

Edith LBHR Dr. L Walter Syd Aust 8/02

> Well lets see two years ago I didn't know if I would have a

> resurfaced hip or a replaced hip, either way I was prepared for

> whatever outcome as I could no longer bare the pain.

> Waking up and finding out that I had a BHR was the start of my

> recovery as I knew it was going to buy some femoral head and neck

> time, thus I thank the skill of my surgeons Messers McQueen and

> Schimmin from the Melbourne Orthopaedic Group. As I wasn't going to

> be the easiest patient to resurface they have performed well above

> expectations.

> My recovery has been slow but the agonising pain has gone and that

> was the major outcome I was trying to acheive by undertaking this

> experience.

> I'm no extreme sportsman, I was never a jogger (have you ever seen a

> jogger smile?) but I do like my golf, and now I don't wince when I

> take a swing because of the pain that use to occur in my left hip,

> now I wince if I hit the bloody thing off line. I don't have to tell

> my children, 5yo and 3yo to hope off my legs when I'm reading them a

> story. I don't wince when I'm standing washing the dishes. And so the

> small things that use to hurt have now disappeared, and that was all

> I was trying to acheive.

> I am by no means cured, I know that I'm a walking experiment with

> fantastic possibillities but also with risks, therefore each day for

> me is another day to exercise and measure my recovery against the pre

> op pain.

> I would also like to thank the ongoing support I have had from this

> group.

> Regards and

> OOOrrrooo

> Skip

> LBHR 2001 Nov, Melbourne Aust.

[Guest guest]

Skip

It is good to have reports like yours - thank you.

I went into resurfacing only having heard about it two weeks before

my scheduled THR and had (somehow) created an expectation in myself

of a 6 week recovery time!! It is 6 months post my first one (second

to follow next spring) and I now appreciate that this is a major op

with an extended recovery period - which, for me, could be years. I

have no inner joint pain but all the healing aches/pains of a

traditionally-slow-to-heal body.

Having said all that though - what a great invention and thank

goodness we have been able to take advantage of it.

I wish for all of us that in twenty years time we are still chatting

thus - with no revisions.

All the best, and keep posting please.

ine

C2K 04/03

> G'day All,

> Well lets see two years ago I didn't know if I would have a

> resurfaced hip or a replaced hip, either way I was prepared for

> whatever outcome as I could no longer bare the pain.

> Waking up and finding out that I had a BHR was the start of my

> recovery as I knew it was going to buy some femoral head and neck

> time, thus I thank the skill of my surgeons Messers McQueen and

> Schimmin from the Melbourne Orthopaedic Group. As I wasn't going to

> be the easiest patient to resurface they have performed well above

> expectations.

> My recovery has been slow but the agonising pain has gone and that

> was the major outcome I was trying to acheive by undertaking this

> experience.

> I'm no extreme sportsman, I was never a jogger (have you ever seen

a

> jogger smile?) but I do like my golf, and now I don't wince when I

> take a swing because of the pain that use to occur in my left hip,

> now I wince if I hit the bloody thing off line. I don't have to

tell

> my children, 5yo and 3yo to hope off my legs when I'm reading them

a

> story. I don't wince when I'm standing washing the dishes. And so

the

> small things that use to hurt have now disappeared, and that was

all

> I was trying to acheive.

> I am by no means cured, I know that I'm a walking experiment with

> fantastic possibillities but also with risks, therefore each day

for

> me is another day to exercise and measure my recovery against the

pre

> op pain.

> I would also like to thank the ongoing support I have had from this

> group.

> Regards and

> OOOrrrooo

> Skip

> LBHR 2001 Nov, Melbourne Aust.

[Guest guest]

Skip

It is good to have reports like yours - thank you.

I went into resurfacing only having heard about it two weeks before

my scheduled THR and had (somehow) created an expectation in myself

of a 6 week recovery time!! It is 6 months post my first one (second

to follow next spring) and I now appreciate that this is a major op

with an extended recovery period - which, for me, could be years. I

have no inner joint pain but all the healing aches/pains of a

traditionally-slow-to-heal body.

Having said all that though - what a great invention and thank

goodness we have been able to take advantage of it.

I wish for all of us that in twenty years time we are still chatting

thus - with no revisions.

All the best, and keep posting please.

ine

C2K 04/03

> G'day All,

> Well lets see two years ago I didn't know if I would have a

> resurfaced hip or a replaced hip, either way I was prepared for

> whatever outcome as I could no longer bare the pain.

> Waking up and finding out that I had a BHR was the start of my

> recovery as I knew it was going to buy some femoral head and neck

> time, thus I thank the skill of my surgeons Messers McQueen and

> Schimmin from the Melbourne Orthopaedic Group. As I wasn't going to

> be the easiest patient to resurface they have performed well above

> expectations.

> My recovery has been slow but the agonising pain has gone and that

> was the major outcome I was trying to acheive by undertaking this

> experience.

> I'm no extreme sportsman, I was never a jogger (have you ever seen

a

> jogger smile?) but I do like my golf, and now I don't wince when I

> take a swing because of the pain that use to occur in my left hip,

> now I wince if I hit the bloody thing off line. I don't have to

tell

> my children, 5yo and 3yo to hope off my legs when I'm reading them

a

> story. I don't wince when I'm standing washing the dishes. And so

the

> small things that use to hurt have now disappeared, and that was

all

> I was trying to acheive.

> I am by no means cured, I know that I'm a walking experiment with

> fantastic possibillities but also with risks, therefore each day

for

> me is another day to exercise and measure my recovery against the

pre

> op pain.

> I would also like to thank the ongoing support I have had from this

> group.

> Regards and

> OOOrrrooo

> Skip

> LBHR 2001 Nov, Melbourne Aust.

[Guest guest]

Skip

It is good to have reports like yours - thank you.

I went into resurfacing only having heard about it two weeks before

my scheduled THR and had (somehow) created an expectation in myself

of a 6 week recovery time!! It is 6 months post my first one (second

to follow next spring) and I now appreciate that this is a major op

with an extended recovery period - which, for me, could be years. I

have no inner joint pain but all the healing aches/pains of a

traditionally-slow-to-heal body.

Having said all that though - what a great invention and thank

goodness we have been able to take advantage of it.

I wish for all of us that in twenty years time we are still chatting

thus - with no revisions.

All the best, and keep posting please.

ine

C2K 04/03

> G'day All,

> Well lets see two years ago I didn't know if I would have a

> resurfaced hip or a replaced hip, either way I was prepared for

> whatever outcome as I could no longer bare the pain.

> Waking up and finding out that I had a BHR was the start of my

> recovery as I knew it was going to buy some femoral head and neck

> time, thus I thank the skill of my surgeons Messers McQueen and

> Schimmin from the Melbourne Orthopaedic Group. As I wasn't going to

> be the easiest patient to resurface they have performed well above

> expectations.

> My recovery has been slow but the agonising pain has gone and that

> was the major outcome I was trying to acheive by undertaking this

> experience.

> I'm no extreme sportsman, I was never a jogger (have you ever seen

a

> jogger smile?) but I do like my golf, and now I don't wince when I

> take a swing because of the pain that use to occur in my left hip,

> now I wince if I hit the bloody thing off line. I don't have to

tell

> my children, 5yo and 3yo to hope off my legs when I'm reading them

a

> story. I don't wince when I'm standing washing the dishes. And so

the

> small things that use to hurt have now disappeared, and that was

all

> I was trying to acheive.

> I am by no means cured, I know that I'm a walking experiment with

> fantastic possibillities but also with risks, therefore each day

for

> me is another day to exercise and measure my recovery against the

pre

> op pain.

> I would also like to thank the ongoing support I have had from this

> group.

> Regards and

> OOOrrrooo

> Skip

> LBHR 2001 Nov, Melbourne Aust.

[Guest guest]

>

> OOOrrrooo

> Skip

> LBHR 2001 Nov, Melbourne Aust.

Skippy!

OOOrrooo! So good to read your post. Ain't life grand. I can

relate to that bit about your kids sitting on your lap and not

wincing. My youngest is now 16 and still likes to try to sit briefly

on mom's lap. It has nothing to do with arthritis pain and

everything to do with the fact that she's adult size. But I still

can do it!!!!! We laugh alot.

Take care and keep enjoying life. As it should be.

Trudy

Bilat Cormet 1/02

[Guest guest]

Edith, just wanted to say how much I enjoy all your emails. I cannot believe

your gumption. I have often meant to ask you why in heavens name any surgeon

fused your hip in the first place at a young age , and how it must have taken a

special surgeon to agree to reverse it.

Sharry

Re: two years, the review.

Hi,

Skip I always love to hear how you are going as I remember you hadn't had

your hip long when I found out I could have one........ now the years are

starting to clock up........ isn't it great.......... and good to do all

those things you mentioned....... I often find it is those little things

that I just love myself - including just sitting in a chair........ no down

hill skiing, heavy duty sports stuff for this little bunny either........

The last 24 hrs I have found that I have had a mental breakthrough with my

walking....... beginning to automatically take bigger steps out and not rely

on a virtual sashy sideways as the mode of movement of last 36

years.......one part of my brain is still finding this a bit

weird........smile. I actually feel a bit like puss in boots......but

strangely it is what is called normal walking........smile. So much brain

stuff involved in getting the walk happening properly.............

Edith LBHR Dr. L Walter Syd Aust 8/02

> Well lets see two years ago I didn't know if I would have a

> resurfaced hip or a replaced hip, either way I was prepared for

> whatever outcome as I could no longer bare the pain.

> Waking up and finding out that I had a BHR was the start of my

> recovery as I knew it was going to buy some femoral head and neck

> time, thus I thank the skill of my surgeons Messers McQueen and

> Schimmin from the Melbourne Orthopaedic Group. As I wasn't going to

> be the easiest patient to resurface they have performed well above

> expectations.

> My recovery has been slow but the agonising pain has gone and that

> was the major outcome I was trying to acheive by undertaking this

> experience.

> I'm no extreme sportsman, I was never a jogger (have you ever seen a

> jogger smile?) but I do like my golf, and now I don't wince when I

> take a swing because of the pain that use to occur in my left hip,

> now I wince if I hit the bloody thing off line. I don't have to tell

> my children, 5yo and 3yo to hope off my legs when I'm reading them a

> story. I don't wince when I'm standing washing the dishes. And so the

> small things that use to hurt have now disappeared, and that was all

> I was trying to acheive.

> I am by no means cured, I know that I'm a walking experiment with

> fantastic possibillities but also with risks, therefore each day for

> me is another day to exercise and measure my recovery against the pre

> op pain.

> I would also like to thank the ongoing support I have had from this

> group.

> Regards and

> OOOrrrooo

> Skip

> LBHR 2001 Nov, Melbourne Aust.

[Guest guest]

Edith, just wanted to say how much I enjoy all your emails. I cannot believe

your gumption. I have often meant to ask you why in heavens name any surgeon

fused your hip in the first place at a young age , and how it must have taken a

special surgeon to agree to reverse it.

Sharry

Re: two years, the review.

Hi,

Skip I always love to hear how you are going as I remember you hadn't had

your hip long when I found out I could have one........ now the years are

starting to clock up........ isn't it great.......... and good to do all

those things you mentioned....... I often find it is those little things

that I just love myself - including just sitting in a chair........ no down

hill skiing, heavy duty sports stuff for this little bunny either........

The last 24 hrs I have found that I have had a mental breakthrough with my

walking....... beginning to automatically take bigger steps out and not rely

on a virtual sashy sideways as the mode of movement of last 36

years.......one part of my brain is still finding this a bit

weird........smile. I actually feel a bit like puss in boots......but

strangely it is what is called normal walking........smile. So much brain

stuff involved in getting the walk happening properly.............

Edith LBHR Dr. L Walter Syd Aust 8/02

> Well lets see two years ago I didn't know if I would have a

> resurfaced hip or a replaced hip, either way I was prepared for

> whatever outcome as I could no longer bare the pain.

> Waking up and finding out that I had a BHR was the start of my

> recovery as I knew it was going to buy some femoral head and neck

> time, thus I thank the skill of my surgeons Messers McQueen and

> Schimmin from the Melbourne Orthopaedic Group. As I wasn't going to

> be the easiest patient to resurface they have performed well above

> expectations.

> My recovery has been slow but the agonising pain has gone and that

> was the major outcome I was trying to acheive by undertaking this

> experience.

> I'm no extreme sportsman, I was never a jogger (have you ever seen a

> jogger smile?) but I do like my golf, and now I don't wince when I

> take a swing because of the pain that use to occur in my left hip,

> now I wince if I hit the bloody thing off line. I don't have to tell

> my children, 5yo and 3yo to hope off my legs when I'm reading them a

> story. I don't wince when I'm standing washing the dishes. And so the

> small things that use to hurt have now disappeared, and that was all

> I was trying to acheive.

> I am by no means cured, I know that I'm a walking experiment with

> fantastic possibillities but also with risks, therefore each day for

> me is another day to exercise and measure my recovery against the pre

> op pain.

> I would also like to thank the ongoing support I have had from this

> group.

> Regards and

> OOOrrrooo

> Skip

> LBHR 2001 Nov, Melbourne Aust.

[Guest guest]

Hi Sharry,

Glad to provide some entertainment........smile. The left hip got fused

after a long encounter with osteomylitis, a bone marrow inflammation by

definition..........though it decided to be a bit different in my body and

also occured in muscle tissue...... It started in one part of my left hip,

spread all over the place and came back to provide problems lodging in part

of the pelvis bone not far from where the acebuleum cap gets put............

This created total chaos in the joint which had already started to show

signs of osteoarthritis at 15 yrs old........... The young OS decided that

the only solution was to fuse the hip and hope like hell the infection

calmed down - they couldn't scrape that bone apparently (sometimes treatment

for osteomylitis) - told me I may die in the op if they tried and the strain

I had was very resistant to antibotics............ and they didn't have the

super antibotics they do now......... or treat osteomylitis with those

bacterofarges mentioned before.............

My wonderful surgeon, Dr. Walter told me that the guy did the only thing he

could and that he had done a fabulous job when he did it.......... he said

far too often surgeons take a slash and burn approach to bones which makes

it hard to make things neat and tidy later............. He also said that

patients these days are not too happy to consider fusing hips as an

option.......which is why we have young ones turning up here considering

Resurface or THR............

My operation to take down the fused hip has only been done successfully in

Aust 3 times now.......and those by my surgeon........... I understand only

a few have attempted it world wide and suspect that would be the likes of

Dr. Smet or McMinn/........... To prise apart bones with a hammer and

chisel and not create stress fractures would have to require a very innate

knowledge of bones and just what you can do with each hit I suspect.......

I was told by younger OS that there wasn't anything Dr. Walter couldn't do

with a hip joint and I have seen the awe that these young ones have around

him so I guess he is pretty good............

Then the ability to do it had to be matched by an OS with a long enough

experience to understand my position in that the options of continuing to

live in a body which was very disturbed by the fused hip situation greatly

outweighed the risks of the osteomylitis returning if my bones were touched

........... something apparently most doctors believe is a surety given some

of the responses I got over the years of asking for help........... Again

highlighting the view that you find the best if you want good results.

Lastly, that I could get something done is a wonderful plus about Resurface

prothesis itself......... for its capacity not to dislocate in severe lack

of muscle situation like mine, the minimum disturbance of bone needed to fit

the prothesis and the absence of the shaft down the femur all contributed to

make it ideal in such a situation.

Now aren't you sorry you asked.............smile.

Edith LBHR Dr. L Walter Syd Aust 8/02

> Edith, just wanted to say how much I enjoy all your emails. I cannot

believe your gumption. I have often meant to ask you why in heavens name

any surgeon fused your hip in the first place at a young age , and how it

must have taken a special surgeon to agree to reverse it.

> Sharry

[Guest guest]

Hi Edith

Thank you for answering me in detail, I am very appreciative. (really!). it

has been bothering me for a long time as to how you ended up in your

situation...and it does give wonderful kudos to resurfacing too.

Thanks again and keep on swimming!

Sharry

Re: two years, the review.

Hi Sharry,

Glad to provide some entertainment........smile. The left hip got fused

after a long encounter with osteomylitis, a bone marrow inflammation by

definition..........though it decided to be a bit different in my body and

also occured in muscle tissue...... It started in one part of my left hip,

spread all over the place and came back to provide problems lodging in part

of the pelvis bone not far from where the acebuleum cap gets put............

This created total chaos in the joint which had already started to show

signs of osteoarthritis at 15 yrs old........... The young OS decided that

the only solution was to fuse the hip and hope like hell the infection

calmed down - they couldn't scrape that bone apparently (sometimes treatment

for osteomylitis) - told me I may die in the op if they tried and the strain

I had was very resistant to antibotics............ and they didn't have the

super antibotics they do now......... or treat osteomylitis with those

bacterofarges mentioned before.............

My wonderful surgeon, Dr. Walter told me that the guy did the only thing he

could and that he had done a fabulous job when he did it.......... he said

far too often surgeons take a slash and burn approach to bones which makes

it hard to make things neat and tidy later............. He also said that

patients these days are not too happy to consider fusing hips as an

option.......which is why we have young ones turning up here considering

Resurface or THR............

My operation to take down the fused hip has only been done successfully in

Aust 3 times now.......and those by my surgeon........... I understand only

a few have attempted it world wide and suspect that would be the likes of

Dr. Smet or McMinn/........... To prise apart bones with a hammer and

chisel and not create stress fractures would have to require a very innate

knowledge of bones and just what you can do with each hit I suspect.......

I was told by younger OS that there wasn't anything Dr. Walter couldn't do

with a hip joint and I have seen the awe that these young ones have around

him so I guess he is pretty good............

Then the ability to do it had to be matched by an OS with a long enough

experience to understand my position in that the options of continuing to

live in a body which was very disturbed by the fused hip situation greatly

outweighed the risks of the osteomylitis returning if my bones were touched

.......... something apparently most doctors believe is a surety given some

of the responses I got over the years of asking for help........... Again

highlighting the view that you find the best if you want good results.

Lastly, that I could get something done is a wonderful plus about Resurface

prothesis itself......... for its capacity not to dislocate in severe lack

of muscle situation like mine, the minimum disturbance of bone needed to fit

the prothesis and the absence of the shaft down the femur all contributed to

make it ideal in such a situation.

Now aren't you sorry you asked.............smile.

Edith LBHR Dr. L Walter Syd Aust 8/02

> Edith, just wanted to say how much I enjoy all your emails. I cannot

believe your gumption. I have often meant to ask you why in heavens name

any surgeon fused your hip in the first place at a young age , and how it

must have taken a special surgeon to agree to reverse it.

> Sharry