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@Elsinore!
As to the conversation about our creepy body parts... Here's my story. I conspicuously avoided all talk or videos about the procedure before the two surgeries and spent that energy instead finding the best most qualified hip surgeon I could so I could deposit all my faith in those skills and worry about what was being done ...later. But things seep out, here on BS and with well-meaning friends and family and all. So I'd hear bits and pieces and then quickly delete them from my memory bank so they couldn't play a role in my pre-op serenity! Especially the sawing part! And it worked really well. I went into both surgeries unusually calm and confident in the success. Both went very smoothly. Then... After surgery #1, a few posters here put up pix of their femoral heads to which I responded like most; eeeuwww, yuck, ick, body parts, gross....
Then the more sciency-driven half of my brain kicked in and said, hey, wow, that is really fascinating to see the differences between poster A and B's femoral heads! Night and day yet both had same diagnoses...
Fast forward I was pretty disappointed after surgery #1 when my OS came in with his description of the landmark event as "You did great, went very well". Period. No essay on his findings in there or relative degree of damage. Nothing. So I made the decision to ask for more for number 2 and yes, even pix. I was saying goodbye to a major body part who had taken me around the world and done so much for me!! I wanted at least a photo. Surgeons assistant then said they do videos now and he'd include that in the package.
I was extremely hesitant to see it but once I got over the schoolgirl squeamishness .... I can tell you it's my new favorite video!! Lol. All my friends were fascinated as well. Mostly because the surgeon narrated it and showed me each problem and what the result was, it gave me a more in depth understanding of what had happened mechanically and how it manifested physically. Now my one friend asks to see it every time she comes over! Not kidding. I'm thinking of charging admission.
I'm always a bit too curious about how things work so that played a role. But for me there was nothing repellant about it. Well, maybe the teeth growing out of the backside... Hahaha!
And the only white parts are where you've gone to bone on bone, usually at the crown. That's amazing as it looks like polished ivory. I will spare you the rest.
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