So I'm pretty sure this wouldn't be taken as a landlord thread without the OT, but to make people happy it's there.

I am scheduled to get my hip replaced late June, just after the Convention, in fact. They could have done it before but then I would miss the Convention ;)

Everyone I know who has had a knee or hip replacement has always said they wished they had done it sooner rather than suffering in pain due to fear of the surgery.

WMH - best wishes that it all goes well. It will. I don't know about the newer techniques so I'll just say, "Vicodin is good," get well fast! :)

DJ, that is what EVERYONE has told me too!

Sounds like a great opportunity to evaluate the hands off-ness of the business.

W,

My Dad had both done the same day, years ago. Wished he would have done it sooner. The effects of surgery were less than the daily pain before surgery.

Sister had it done recently.

Be sure to mark which leg!

BRAD

I know Brad!

I tripped on a friend's very bad step in late 2019. Won't go into details but we are no longer friends, I can't stand it, they changed my life but I wouldn't sue them or anything. I just won't talk to them ever again. And they don't even know why, sad to say. I just can't discuss it.

Smashed my hip. Accelerated my decline. In January 2020 it came crashing in but Covid.

Have a spinal as your anesthetic.

Hip replacements are significantly less painful than a knee replacement.

My uncle had his hip replaced and he said that he felt much better. Unfortunately, he died of a heart attack not long after. I don't know if it was related to the hip surgery or not but I doubt it. He was a heavy smoker and ate a lot of pork.

In the past the American Medical Association (what ever they were called) with others did not allow a new procedure to take place in the US for hip replacement. The old method, chop off the end of the bone and hammer in a rod with hardware attached to it. While in other countries the grind down the bone ends and install a cap over it. This is done with micro surgery. No cutting to tendons.

The recovery time for the new method, a couple of days. The recovery time for the conventional $40,000 American job, 6 to 9 months.

So a good friend, 80 years old, needed a hip replacement. We went to his Beverly Hills doctor and had a conversation. Have his hip replaced through the stand US method, and never enjoy walking again. But go to the Philippines and have a $5,000 surgery, and the first day you will be walking a couple hundred feet every hour. And by the second day you can walk a block or two. In a week you will be in better shape than before the operation.

So my friend said, can you do the operation. The doctor said it is not legal in the United States. But if we call it something else and you write me a check for $40,000 -- I will do it. So on Monday he had the operation and by Thursday he want to my fathers house to play cards and walked up the steps better than he had over the last 10 years. This story is over 20 years old....

Just remembered.

Dad was the Chief Metallurgist for Cummins Engine. He was enthralled with the high tech nature of the new ball and socket - titanium, strength, design...

He would brag about them to anyone who would listen.

I had both knees done, two years apart. The key to everything is the "skill of the operator." (The orthopedic surgeon is good.)

I can walk for miles, without thinking about it. I have trouble kneeling, though.

Don't do two joints at once. It's not safe.

I agree with others from reports I hear about how much better hip replacement is now that it used to be. It sounds as though you will have good results.

Definitely getting the anterior ("new") way where they go in the front, not cut in from the back. The "old way" may help your pain but can be physically limiting for the rest of your life, I'm told by my physical therapist. The new way, as everyone says, you are up and about right away and once the wound heals, all good physically.

The only thing not mentioned so far is that you probably will be told not to fly for 6 months after the surgery. So, if that is going to happen you will need to plan for it. That was something that nobody told me until after the surgery was done, and that caused me come issues with my investments.

So. We are just about a week out from surgery. Had it done 11am or so last Thursday, went home at 5pm that night. Felt pretty good then! Guess I still had pain killers in me :)

That night, next day and for several subsequent days, I was questioning my decision big time - initial surgical pain was worse than having a bad hip (THAT pain was completely gone, btw.) Instead of trying to be stoic, I took the full dose of pain meds every chance I got.

But again, it's only a week out and I can see steady improvement every day. No pain meds last night at all. Tylenol today. So I'm guessing I will soon be saying, "Well worth it!"