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Hip surgery…not now…maybe in a few months!
By Michelle | June 5, 2008
Yeah I know, I think I’m even getting sick of my health issues, so sorry to bore you with some more. Poor Jeff, I often wonder, is the boy going to stick around or just not come home one day…heehee. Maybe you should have one wife for popping out the kids and the other wife to grow old with….nah…after getting my old thyroid out and my hip taken care of, I plan on staying around for a LONG time! Yesterday, after meeting with the hip surgeon, I admit that I was having this little "poor Michelle" party, but that lasted a few hours. There could be so many worse things, at least everything that is going on with me can be fixed and I am SO thankful for that.
So here’s the details. We met with the top hip arthosocopy doc on the Eastside and he confirmed that I did have a labral tear combination (cam & pincer) and a femoral acetabular impingement. Now…what does all that mean? I basically stopped listening after he said that he was going to paralyze the muscles in my leg, pull my hip outta joint, and clean out the labrum that is torn and shave down the head of the femoral bone…etc. etc…really I stopped listening at the shaving my bone part. I think Jeff might have gotten the rest of it, but I started listening again when he said the entire recovery process is 9-12 months, but that I couldn’t lift more than 5 lbs or do stairs for 6 weeks…how is that possible with the 2 girls…well the surgeon suggested the family medical leave act for Jeff…I suggested we wait until next summer so my mom can help out with the girls and give Samantha a little more time to get toddling on her own. I did ask the surgeon if I could do nothing, he said it was not a good idea because basically the problem is going to break down the cartilage in my hip and cause arthritis which will in turn create a full hip replacement situation in the future. The surgeon really wanted me to at least get on his schedule so we are currently scheduled for December 5th…I really have not had time to even process that date yet and I would really prefer to push it out until next summer. Hey, I have a few days coming up at the end of the month to just hang out and think about it. The surgeon thinks I might have torn the labrum during delivery with Sarah Jo. I personally think I might have injured it before that….it has hurt a long time…I just never knew what it was. He said that I have a few contributing factors including the anatomy of my hip, and 2 pregnancies and 2 natural births later… here we are. We make darn cute babies, but wow, I’m a horrible pregnant person…it just doesn’t work with my body!!
Speaking of a few days at the end of the month, I’m almost 1 week through the treatment and down from 150mg of thyroid replacement meds to 25mg. Tonight I’m tired, but overall I’m doing OK. Everyday I just remember how lucky we are that this is actually treatable, there are so many people who are not this lucky. I figure about 4 more weeks to go and that includes the isolation period from the girls. You can do anything for 4 weeks, that I’m sure of.
My dad is taking some half days off to help me with the girls in the afternoon next week and my sissy gets back from Vegas as well, so then only a few more weeks to go. So doable!!!
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