I had hip surgery

I had hip surgery. It was one of the most painful experiences I’ve ever been through. The steroids I’ve had to take for my asthma/COPD caused me to have osteonecrosis of the hips. Basically, they killed my bone in the hip and femoral head and my bone died. I had a hip core decompression with a bone graph. They drilled into my hip bone and femoral head and removed the dead bone inside. I can’t walk or put any weight on my right hip for 4-6 weeks, so I have another 3 weeks left before my next doctor’s appointment. I’m not sure if I have to learn to walk again or what is going to happen, or if I have to start out slowly by only putting weight on my leg in small increments. They want to do surgery on my other hip when the right one is healed but I might push that one back for a year if my hip makes it that long. Being able to have this surgery and the long recovery time won’t work during the school year so the summer is the best time to do this. My doctor is trying to push back hip replacement surgery as long as possible because I’m still so young and hip replacements don’t last more than 15 years.

This time has been such a change for me. I don’t do the dependence thing too well and I have a really hard time with not being independent. I’m also not a sit-down type, I’m always up and moving. This sitting has gotten to me mentally for sure. Just another lesson life is trying to throw at me. Learn to be dependant and humble and grateful.