@Eman85 Thank you! My brain has a hard time translating that. The dr pulled out a hip model this afternoon and went over it a bit. I just have a mental block but I am not ‘doing it wrong’ so maybe that’s ok
.see notes to follow. Layla, Freyagirl, myglasshalffull, mendogal - my appointment went well today. The dr was very sweet and spent about an hour with us explaining things well. Still processing but the quick summary is that he wants me to take an antibiotic for the wound but isn’t terribly worried. He said it has something to do with the stitch dissolving, an absess maybe.
He said the new fracture is in same spot, no surgery (unless I fall or something). The vertical fracture from the surgery isn’t showing, which is good.
We talked a little bit about the dislocation and why but he said no way to know for sure. He said it’s normal for it to still be sore and to lay low and baby it for now.
He spent a long time going over xrays and ct scan with my husband (career in orthopedics so knows all the technical stuff) all about angles, retroversion, etc and he feels like everything is where it should be at sizes and angles and placements he likes and can’t see anything he could do to change it that would help. He went through some common ‘corrections’, none of which I need and all of which would likely cause problems. My husband agreed with what he said.
He said there are 2 diagnostic things he can do- (1) get another ct scan but this one of the whole femur to see the exact position of the stem. We are going to do this. Option (2)- he can put me under and then under flora move my leg into all positions to see what it does. He said he did this for 2 patients in 12 years (one was inherited) bc they were so fearful of it happening again. Neither one dislocated when he manipulated their leg or later. My husband, the dr and I decided together that we would want the ct scan first and think about doing this later (or not). He said that he does not see anything that would lead him to think I will dislocate again.
That’s all I can remember right now but it was reassuring!