Out With The Old (hip) and In With The New!

[Guest guest]

I am new to this group.My name is Penny Hoff and I had a THR on my right side in

2005

and it was a great success and got me my life back! Now, my other hip is

scheduled for

surgery on Monday Luther King Day and all I can say is:

BRING IT ON!

I am very athletic and 46 years young and I am of that small demographic of

athletes that

LOOKS FORWARD to surgery becasue I can then get back to zooming around!

Just find a doctor who does your procedure everyday and whom you love and go

for it! I

also am a big proponent of rolling on a foam roller to help manage tightness and

pain

prior to surgery. It really helps. If you need more info, cehck out this segment

that I did on

Jan.6th for ABC morning news in NYC.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=hoffpenny

and here's my blog

http://www.pennyhoff.com

with lots of tfitness tips for Baby Zoomers, people who want to keep doing what

they've

been doing til they are 99 years old!

All the Best,

Penny

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> > Well, tomorrow is almost here and I'll go see my DR and find out what's

> > in store for me next. But, I am nervous!

> >

> > What I am nervous about is what he will say will be my options...or,

> > more accurately, nervous that he'll say I have no more options. After

> > arthro, PAO, arthro, mini open, arthro and mini open together...and now

> > being stage 4 with arthritic changes I am afraid my age of (almost) 36

> > will be a major factor.

> >

> > I'm also afraid he'll say " additional testing, " which I don't think

> > there's anymore left for me to have! Plus, he was just in the joint

> > about 6 weeks ago and saw things first hand...unfortunately things have

> > gone from good to worse though with something tearing post-op and then

> > the popping and grinding coming back full on with the lovely associated

> > pain when walking, placing weight on the joint, and it hurts even when

> > I'm just laying around...which has been A LOT lately. And when the pain

> > flares up, I get nauseous...probably from my nerves from everything. I

> > am questioning if I am developing anxiety from the ongoing drama with

> > my hip, or if this is normal. When I try to disassociate or visualize

> > it helps a little for the nausea, but not much, and it does nothing for

> > the pain...so I am guessing this isn't just anxiety related.

> >

> > I've got my list of questions, hubby will be with me also, but none of

> > that or the reading/research I've done is making me feel prepared for

> > tomorrow at all.

> >

> > I'm not nervous about the option of a THR or BHR if that is the

> > opinion...I am nervous that I will be in pain and told that I need to

> > just grin and bear this all until I get older...which would make me

> > feel like what the heII were the point of the other 5 surgeries then. I

> > don't know, it's not like I don't trust my DR, just that he said he had

> > no answers and might not have any for me at this next appointment

> > either.

> >

> > Sometimes I wish if they'd only spend a few days in our shoes...

> >

> > I am so sick and tired of how this thing is limiting me, and how mine,

> > myhubby's, and our kids' lives have been so revolved around my medical

> > stuff for way too long now. Enough is enough akready!

> >

> > thanks for listening~

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