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Originally Posted by PugMom
yeah, it sounds like you're going to need the sx @ this point. all the conservative methods of treatment have been used up- best of luck  |
Thanks. I'm feeling pretty good about it actually. If you have arthritis, you will not ever "not" have arthritis. Treating the symptoms only delays the inevitable. If it's slow-growing, you could outlive the need for surgery. Circumstances have resulted in my knowing this experience would come, back when I was in my early 30's.
Thankfully because of science, medicine, big pharma, and hospitals, this is an outpatient surgery now for otherwise-healthy people (such as myself).
I'll go in, in the morning, they'll prep me, give me some good knock-out drugs that have quick recovery time. Supposedly they go in through a small incision on the upper front of my thigh, clean up whatever bone is left, then fit a ceramic cap over the joint and stitch it back up again. If all goes well in the recovery room, I walk out of there (limping, obviously) some time before dinner the same day.
Physical therapy consists exclusively of walking.