As I approach my 5 month anniversary’s of my RTHR, I have been basking in the pleasure of my increasing ROM in the operated joint, my diminishing pain levels when moving, coupled with an increasing ability to walk fast, limp free (even starting to approach a cadence I could a achieve 3 years ago prior to the arrival of the debilitating pain dragon).
But in just the last 24 hours, the familiar throb of arthritis has come out like an old friend with a sharpened axe to grind, in varying degrees of intensity, this time visting my hitherto pain free *left* hip. Who would have thought??
To be sure, Lefty’s X ray sucked almost as badly as his neighbor’s according to the radiologist’s report, but he never ever gave me any problems at all. Until yesterday that is, when he served notice in triplicate that he is the new boss in town.
I am hoping against hope that his visit is transitory, maybe he is just stopping at the truck stop for a burger, a tank of gas, maybe a quick squeeze, and then he will be off again to greener pastures. I just hope he has the good grace to go of his own accord, without having to be excised by power tools.
United States
