About Me

I became disabled (legally)just in time for my 57th birthday though I've been pain for many years now. I was diagnosed with avascular necrosis of the left hip in '93 which led to the hip being replaced. My right hip was replaced in '98, then the left again in '02 and the right again in '06. My left needs replacing again but I'm a little tired of surgery right now so I'll just live with the pain until i can't bear it anymore. Hip replacements are supposed to be simple run of the mill procedures these days! nothing complicated, so simple you almost get up and walk out of the operating room, nothing to it. Well my life does not run that way, my body does not accept the metal hips and in the process of rejecting the metal it(my body)destroys the bone around the implant. I'm running out of bone stock to attach the hips to. At this point I don't know if the left hip can be replaced again(won't know until the doctors go in) but if the right fails again there is no more bone for another replacement. In the meantime i live with pain that will never go away and walking is just something i do to get from point A to B there is no joy in it at all and dancing? forget it! I've developed Fibromyalgia, the doctors think its because of all the surgery and of course i have arthritis and a few other annoying problems. But thats just what i deal with in my day to day life, but i know that i'm still blessed and have much to be thankful for and once i get a handle on dealing with my body.....there will be no stopping me!!!! so hopefully this site will have some answers for me.