Healing takes longer for some of us.

February 26, 2004

I was resurfaced in October 02 but had a history of congenital hip

dysplasia, so have suffered hip pain for most of my life. Prior to my

Left BHR I received a femoral osteotomy to realign my anantomy so

that any leg length discrepancy was fixed. This has been successful

and my leg length is equal although this means that my recovery has

been somewhat slower due to my muscles, knee joint, ankle joint, feet

etc getting used to walking with a normal gait - this has been hard

work.

I am so busy enjoying my new freedom that I don't get to visit very

often however it seems that several recent hippies are doing it tough

in their recoveries.

After my resurface I suffered acute pain after exercising and was

convinced that I had either :-

* an infection

* femoral fracture

* Muscle tear etc.

I had several visits to casualty at my local hospital but the x-rays,

blood tests all returned negative. I was so worried that I consulted

my OS - his response was that I had undergone major surgery and was

going to hurt for awhile. He thought that I may have hip bursitis and

that I needed to take it a little easier. I did and 16 months down

the track life is great. I still have some numbness in my hip and at

times when I overdo the exercise I feel some pain in my hip and the

muscles protest. However I do not wake in the middle of the night and

try and remove the knife sticking into the side of my hip. My cane

(which I used for over 20 years) has been dontated to those who

really need it. I can walk long distances which in my previous life

were impossible.

Some hippies have a quick recovery but more often than not they did

not suffer for a great length of time. Some of us take longer to heal

but it will happen. It just takes persitence and time.

Good luck to all the slower healing hippies out there and all the

best.

Dasher LBHR 02 D Young - Melbourne, Australia

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