(Cover photo: Split before surgery.)
Twenty-three days ago I had hip replacement surgery (left side), and the recovery proceeds apace. Gradually strength is returning, and my gait returns to normal — or at least something close to it. More importantly, the pain is gone. In all candor, I didn’t realize how bad all of it had become until it stopped.
For several days my brain kept warning me against this motion or that flex, except that these movements were not greeted with sheer agony as had been the case just about every day for at least four years. Seems my brain also needed retraining. Its bulletins are gentler now: “Rog, just avoid falling down a mine shaft and screwing up this second chance.”
Duly resolved.
This fresh new human-made implant, installed by Dr. Yerasimides to take the place of a mangled knot of cartilage and bone, strikes me as one of the finest Christmas gifts I’ve ever received. Conversely, I’m awa ......
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