Tomorrow, new hip #2

As I noted in my last posting to this too-much-information blog, me hip, she be aching a lot. Whether due to lack of meds or just a final breakdown, it's timely as it makes the upcoming surgery feels more like a chance for relief, not something quasi-elective I've chosen to drag myself through.

I've been commenting to people how fortunate it is to live in a time where there are remedies like this. Maybe someday we'll look back at this barbaric procedure involving cutting and grinding and sawing and gluing and implanting, instead of some bioengineered in-situ repair. But not so long ago in human history, and for much of history, if you were in your 50's with rotten hips, you were an invalid and that would've been that. And of course, for many people in the world, that's still likely to be true. So all in all, I'll take the good fortune to be able to have this repair.

If I was headed down the ski jump during my post a few days ago, at this point I am close to the lip of the jump. The best and only forward is to go through with this. I'll report on Round Two when  get back home from the hospital...