Hip Bones

[Eeyore346]

A friend of mine has asked for my hip bones once they are removed. He trains recovery dogs and they use bones to teach them. He was so excited when he heard I was having them done (glad someone was excited, lol). His group has found many missing people both dead and alive. They travel all over to help.

Have any of you donated yours? Just curious if the doctor is going to thinkI am weird when I call ahead of time and ask. The Dog Recovery Group has forms for the hospital. But still think the doctor willthink I am nuts for asking. But it seems like such a good cause.

Sandy

 

[Josephine]

Don't see why - sound like and excellent thing to me. Besides which, we (in the UK) often save femoral heads for the bone bank. They get treated, quarantined and tested then released back to the surgeons for bone grafting in other patients. Saves them having to have painful bone grafts taken.

 

[chaloo]

I would have but could not. Mine had totally collapsed pre op.

Not a bad idea though. Prob surgons are collecting them as their trophies.

 

[JudyS]

I would certainly ask especially as you have a good cause and Josephine stated that they use them for a bone bank, which makes perfect sense. Not sure we do it here (as it makes perfect sense)

I was going to ask for mine just out of curiousity. When my OS came in the room it was quite crowded. The anesthesiologist was also there and I had questions for him. I asked my Doc if I could see his hammer and saw and other tools and implants.

He told me he would take pictures for me. I'll see.
But I was fully awake when I arrived in the Operating room. Tons of tools. I think they could have built something very elaborate. My spine surgeron's undergraduate initially was engineering which always made sense to me, now more so.
Judy

 

[Josephine]

Professor Sir John Charnley (second on the hip designing circuit!) had his early grounding in engineering. I always said one needed a BscEng to work in orthopaedics!

A thought about asking for one's bone and removed implants - in this country, as I understand it, the Health and Safety Council don't sanction giving them to the patient because the rules require staff to dispose of them as contaminated waste and human tissue. Just a thought.

 

[Eeyore346]

The group is giving me forms for the doctor to alow the removal of the bones from the hospital.

Sandy

 

[JudyS]

A thought about asking for one's bone and removed implants - in this country, as I understand it, the Health and Safety Council don't sanction giving them to the patient because the rules require staff to dispose of them as contaminated waste and human tissue. Just a thought

That is exactly what I thought
Judy