Re: Help! My latest X-Ray is awful, I might have missed the resurfacing boat.

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Hi Marie,

I would suggest you leave off panic until you have the word of your

OS......... Being distressed will not make the problem go away............

if there is one........... It will all depend on just what bits have died -

they could be the bits they grind off anyway..........only your OS will know

that......... Such a situation sounds difficult in that you have to have

some sort of guarantee that the bone will stop dying and not continue under

the Resurface cap so best established now not in 6 months......... Only your

doctor will be able to answer that question and may even need to go in there

before you will know why the blood supply has failed to cause the AVN to

happen..........

Life is certainly possible with a THR............ I have a friend who has an

owner driver trucking business carting gravel and such like and has 2 of

them........ He does fine - others do all sorts of things with them - and

the fitter you are the better they go re dislocating.............I saw 70+

ballerina on TV one night doing the upside down splits with

her's..........suspect most of us would be pushed to better

that.............. And Totallyhip list has people talking of skiing etc so I

can imagine with your determination you would soon be out there doing it so

to speak................

Meanwhile I hope all does go well on Thursday,

Edith LBHR Dr. L Walter Syd Aust 8/02

>

> I'm scheduled for Left hip resurfacing on August 11th. I just had my

> pre-op X-ray today... my AVN has progressed a tremendous amount since

> February. It looks like half of my femur head has collapsed and is

> even starting to slough off. It's wierd, because I'm uncomfortable,

> but not really miserable (except sometimes at night).

>

> I'm donating my blood and having my pre-op class on Thursday (I'm Dr

> 's patient). I'm going to drop off the film at his office. I'm

> really scared that he will say it's probably going to be impossible

> and that I'll need to have a large diameter THR instead. I'm 46 and I

> want to resume being very active. Does anyone know what I won't be

> able to do if I get a THR instead of Resurfacing (not that I'll have

> any choice)? I know that I'll have to face a couple (or several) of

> those gruesome revision surgeries in my lifetime.

>

> I remember reading something about Dr DeSmet resurfacing people with

> very advanced AVN successfully. Is this true? I doubt that I'd have

> the where-with-all to change doctors this late (I really like Dr

> s). I doubt it would be worth it... does anyone know more about

> this situation?

>

> Marie

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