I got home from church yesterday and got some bad news...surgery is in my future. BOO!!! Yay for the hospital they finally got the MRI to my uncle and he was able to look it over and decide what's wrong with me. The verdict is that it's a Labral tear which i guess is a tear in the cartilage around my hip socket. They can repair it with surgery. The only thing is that the surgery is relatively new so i have to make sure and get a doctor who has done a lot of them or else it might not be successful. They should be able to do the surgery anthroscopically which is less intrusive and easier to recover from. I've been doing some research online and even doing it anthroscopically I'll have to take a week and do nothing afterward and then I'll probably be on crutches for a week or two then i have a couple months of physical therapy. All in all, it'll probably be 3 months after my surgery that I'll be fully functional again. The only good thing about this is that after it's all taken care of i should be able to start running again. This is just what I've found out from my uncle and my own research. I meet with my specialist on Friday and I'll have a better idea of when I'll be doing all this fun stuff. Carolyn and I have decided that there will be a pre-surgery party just because we can so we'll keep you all posted for when that will be :)
Funny note: While i was researching yesterday most of the sites i found about labral tears and surgery talked about how it happens to professional athletes who run 100 miles a week. Yeah so i really don't know how it happened to me but whatever.
In other (less depressing) news, the weekend was great. David and I went to see Dark Knight on Friday and it was amazing! A great last little splurge before we start being really cheap (we're putting ourselves on a budget because we're not saving as much as we'd like). We also went to a birthday party for a friend on Saturday and made amazing fajitas and picked apricots from some trees near my apartment. And we've been getting me caught up on Heroes, it's a pretty fun show. And that was my weekend.
2 comments:
Oh wow Sarah! Good luck with your surgery! At least you are making progress and it is no longer a mystery injury.
Let me know when you are out of it for a week and Ryan and I will bring you ice cream or a slurpee or whatever you want!!!
The Dark Knight is on my must-see list. The Joker has always been one of my favorite villains, when he's creepy and menacing (I wasn't too impressed with the Joker in the Adam West show, in other words).
Good luck with surgery. And with physical therapy... good times ahead!
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