200 Days

😫 🤷 😡 😭 🫠 It has been 202 days since I broke my hip in a freak bike accident. 6 months, 2 weeks, 5 days. My last update on this series of unfortunate events was at 80 days on March 13th. That is because not much has changed. I gave up on the original orthopedic surgeon’s office, Texas Joint Institute, the one I had three or four appointments with over the course of the first few months of the year, always with a PA, always met with a big shrug. Except for the second visit, at the end of the one-month no-weight-bearing period–that PA said I was good to go and I could plan on going to Italy in March. I went to a different doctor–a rehabilitation doctor at UT Southwestern. He also shrugged, although only after forcing my leg into an incredibly painful position that set me back days, and offered a steroid shot to the hip. While there I had full-leg x-rays done to measure the leg-length difference I have had since puberty, and which my PT figured out adjusting for improved my walking…

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