Surgery On Hip

[queenofmean]

I went to get my MRI scan results yesterday and the bottom line is Phsyio won't solve this hip it is going to have to be Surgery if I deem it bad enough. Some days I could say yes it is bad enough others I can cope very well with it, even if I do struggle to do some of the most simplest of tasks. I need to speak with my Diabetes team and my boss and decide if I really want this. Has anyone had surgery to stitch the ligament in the hip joint. The Consultant I saw is also the surgeon and he says there is 80-90% chance of it being a success, but being a diabetic there is High risk of possible infection and it having to be done again, and also possible longer healing process. I'm very much on the fence on this one as I don't know if it is worth the risk. I've come so far and I'm sure that it can't get any worse.

[Sqad]

Are we talking hip replacement here?

[queenofmean]

I wish Sqad.

No the ligament is to be stitched onto the Bone. He needs to dislocate my hip put me in traction stitch the ligament back on to the bone and then put my leg back into place.

[Sqad]

OK....no I have no advice.

[queenofmean]

That's OK Sqad.

its just a very big decision to make, and the one person I would like to talk to is no longer here.

Plus I do have questions now that I wish I had asked yesterday. But I do have the number for his secretary.