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I felt much like you in that I had good days. Or while sitting, I wouldn't know that my hip was bone on bone.
I rarely took pain relievers, mainly because I detest them, but also didn't feel I really needed to. In all honesty, I think the chatter is what moves most of us to schedule the surgery. We have the facts, we understand surgery is inevitable and our only hope at getting life back as we knew it before our hip started to deteriorate.
The vascilating back and forth reaches a point of ENOUGH! At least that's how it played out for me. One day I decided I'd had enough ruminating over it constantly and scheduled it. I told myself that when it gets closer if I decide to cancel, I can. But I never did. The closer it came, the more I wanted it behind me so I could move forward. My husband was even shocked when I called him at work to tell him I scheduled the surgery. He said YOU DID, in total disbelief. I struggled with it myself, never letting on much because I already knew what he and my adult children thought I should do. I simply wasn't ready....until I was.
My best advice is pick the time of year you find most appealing for recovery and schedule it for then.
I rarely took pain relievers, mainly because I detest them, but also didn't feel I really needed to. In all honesty, I think the chatter is what moves most of us to schedule the surgery. We have the facts, we understand surgery is inevitable and our only hope at getting life back as we knew it before our hip started to deteriorate.
The vascilating back and forth reaches a point of ENOUGH! At least that's how it played out for me. One day I decided I'd had enough ruminating over it constantly and scheduled it. I told myself that when it gets closer if I decide to cancel, I can. But I never did. The closer it came, the more I wanted it behind me so I could move forward. My husband was even shocked when I called him at work to tell him I scheduled the surgery. He said YOU DID, in total disbelief. I struggled with it myself, never letting on much because I already knew what he and my adult children thought I should do. I simply wasn't ready....until I was.
My best advice is pick the time of year you find most appealing for recovery and schedule it for then.