Re: THR recommendations – I need a chill pill!

[Guest guest]

Alan, , and ,

Thanks for your insights. If everyone would follow your

examples, it wouldn't matter how shortsighted the medical

community was. You're all excellent contributors to this group

and set a great example by sharing the path to your decisions. You

never abdicated responsibility for your own health. You know you

don't have all the answers yet you challenged established medical

opinions when they didn't quite make sense. You didn't

blindly follow recommendations without doing your homework. You used

your intelligence. The only other way to learn about resurfacing is

through luck – from a chance referral, or finding an enlightened

doctor, or by stumbling onto this site. By blindly taking the advice

of the wrong doctor, all of us could easily find ourselves with a THR

without ever knowing we had a superior option. Scary thought.

Dave

> > Do remember in March of 1997 when the Heaven's Gate cult members

> > committed suicide to hitch a ride to heaven on the Hale-Bopp

> comet?

> > Do you recall your thoughts at the time? Did you wonder how

> someone

> > could put their trust in another's belief without applying a

> > modicum of their own intelligence before taking such drastic

> action?

> > Well now you know how I feel when I read about someone deciding

on

> > THR over resurfacing.

> >

> > Okay, okay, I'm sorry - this is way too harsh a comparison.

> > First, let me quickly add that I'm extremely sympathetic to

> > anyone experiencing debilitating joint pain. We've all been

> > there and life sucks. But many of us have discovered the freedom

> of

> > recapturing a very active, pain-free lifestyle through a

procedure

> > that is still treated like a poor stepchild by much of the

medical

> > community. I just don't understand why THR continues to be

> > favored over resurfacing. So please forgive the Hale-Bopp

> comparison

> > and help me out. When this community has, what is to us,

> > overwhelming first-hand evidence that resurfacing is superior,

why

> is

> > an inferior option so frequently prescribed? THR is a viable

plan

> B,

> > but why is it so frequently promoted as the favored option?

> >

> > Your thoughts are appreciated... even on what I can take to calm

> down.

> >

> > Dave