feeling awful... failing BHR or not???

[Guest guest]

This will mean even more to and Lari and Elenore who have had problems

recovering and maybe some others out there but I need to talk about it!

As some of you know I have had pain and " slow " recovery from the start (R BHR

January 6, 2004 with De Smet); lately though it seemed like I was going slowly

uphill and I was hopeful and then two weeks ago after a slightly longer walk

than usual I started to have more pain and since then it has even increased and

I cannot do my daily walks (which were about 20 minutes); if I want to walk more

than one or two blocks I have to go back to the cane.

Yesterday I saw a surgeon here in Vancouver who dismissed my concerns saying

that healing can take up to 9 months to a year. Never heard of such thing on

this board though! then I sent an email to De Smet to tell him what was

happening and he responded right away saying I should have a bonescan and blood

test to check if I don't have AVN or infection. So now I am scared and so so so

disapointed about the whole thing! On top of this, I will have to fight to get

these tests done here and even probably will have to pay myself to have it done

in a timely manner.

Here it is in writing how awful I feel and the future looks blink at this point.

However who knows?

thanks for listening

Sunita