the next step

hi everyone,
well i'm 71/2 weeks out from my first new hip. i have to tell you its great. before the last hip i had a cookout with tons of people this time it wont be that instead i'll be taking the kids to the infantry museum. yes a walking day. i'm not afraid of it either. it was funny though when i went for my pre op the parking lot at the hospital was full, that old horrible feeling of "oh no" came back. i used to hate that walk. well it wasnt bad, it was long for the new hip but the left was the one that hurt and that is why i'm doing surgery #2. with the pain gone in the right getting up and down has been much easier so much in fact that even i had to think is it really worth doing the left or was it just compensatory pain from having to do so much work. well during that walk i remembered. i remembered just how bad the left is. it always hurt differently then the right . it was hard to describe before but the right hip just killed me to stand , just to stand was excruciating it only took a few minutes of walking before i was just throwing it forward to take the next step. the left was different its always been the one to pop and click. its always been more unstable and infact until the right collapsed no one believed that the right really hurt more then the left. boy i showed them, lol. anyhow sleeping and the grinding pain from my left hip is about to be gone. i'm starting all over and no i really dont like that part, its surgery and surgery is never fun buy i'm so greatful that once its over i'm done not just for a little while for a very long time.
i have to give my surgeon some credit here. i have faith in him that is the reason i feel so confident that once this is over i wont be back for a very long time. i can physically see by how straight my leg is and the precision of his work, but looking at the xrays made me feel even better. you know it makes all the pt feel very worth while too because i'm working towards an end. that point that i dont even feel like i have new hips and i dont have pain anymore.

i've always dreaded the relearning how to walk part but it is very different this time. this time it feels final. yes i'm young and there will be at least one replacement years from now but i'm so excited to think that its years without pain i have to look forward too.

I have my mom to thank and she's not here to tell her, but she had her hip replaced during the stone ages. i wish she could have had the success that i have already started to experience. before she died at 58 she had already had multiple revisions, cement disease and stress fractures beneath the prosthetic. it really didnt make the outcome look very appealing i was really scared how much pain she would have had to live in had she gotten old. i was scared for myself too. my outlook has really changed in the past month and now i'm more excied then anything . so pray for me because i can only imagine how great this is really going to be.