Below is a gallery of the scopes from my surgery. Starting with the initial scope to the Dr. repairing my labrum (if you look at the slide show, it’s the blue thread), then going in and removing the tissue built up in my hip joint and sculpted my hip socket.
From all appearances, my surgery was a success. I was out before I even got into the operating room, my last recollection was the nurses wheeling me out of the room. Five hours later my labrum had been repaired, my femur sculpted and excess built up tissue removed from my hip joint.
Now begins the recovery. I have crutches and am not supposed to put any weight on my leg for the next two week and no driving for four weeks. My physical therapy started to day with some stretching exercises, I got back in two days and continue twice a week for the next six, with water aerobics starting in July.
I have three months before I head back out to work, a full netflix queue that I have already started making a dent in; OITNB season three done, House of Cards started; movies and reading for my summer classes; annual re-reads like American Gods, Anansi Boys, Snow Crash and White Teeth; plus there is preparing to move. Three months seems like a pretty big block of time but I’m already two days in and I can already foresee how quickly this is going to disappear.
for the first time in years i am without any jewelry. no earrings, no wedding band, no watch. I’m sitting in the lobby of st. thomas surgicare waiting to get called back for my third surgery ever. of the three, this is both the most complicated; repair my labrum and cartilage in my hip and re-sculpt the ball of my femur and the bowl it rests in; and the least invasive; the whole procedure is done via three smallish incisions in my hip.
although this is outpatient surgery they are putting me under and looking at the consent form I think the order of possible side effects may be a little skewed.
Personally I would reorder 11-13.
