Long overdue update

I had the best of intentions about keeping up with this blog, but here is an update...finally. I think I had a mental block about writing more until I had some idea what was going to happen with my hip. Today was almost the first day I had no pain in my right hip for months, but I finally have a plan for this hip.

Last week I went back to the surgeon yet again hoping for some answers. He told me I basically had two choices - live with the pain or to have a periacetabular osteotomy (PAO), which was what he recommended over a year ago. It was only my uneasiness with that procedure that led me to have arthroscopy instead. However, I have yet to be pain-free following that surgery, and it really feels like I have torn the cartilage again. If I had to live with the pain, it's not that bad, usually not much more than 2 on a scale of 1 to 10. But I don't want the joint to wear out prematurely. The surgeon thinks it already has mild arthritis but is confident that I will have a great outcome with the PAO.

So I will lose part of another summer with the hope of enjoying many summer and winter activities without pain in the future.