Yeah, the content itself makes perfect sense, I think what got me was the airplane security leaflet pictures. Makes it seem like you pulled your hip from a vaguely disappointing Amazon cardboard box along with a cheap gadget.

... I craved the strength and certainty of steel ...

Hello, we are calling about your hip's extended warranty. Press 1 to be connected to a hipologist and remedy this issue. Press 2 to die. Ending this call will assume option 2. Option 1 is also option 2 but with a slightly longer buffer time. Too late, you are now dead. click

Haha are you me? My sitting and sleeping styles are chaotic!

I had to really watch these positional restrictions for the first four weeks. After that I could ease back into a more full range of motion, but only to my comfort level (in other words, I couldn't push anything and had to take it slooooowly). No running or jumping for the first 12 weeks. But now I can pretty much do anything I want. I do still have pain sometimes if I sleep in a weird position or if I go too hard in the gym, but more or less I'm back to normal. Certainly I'm better than before surgery!

My problem was called a femoroacetabular impingement, which is a congenital overgrowth of bone at the neck of the femur. It limited my range of motion (e.g., squatting was difficult) and led to a torn labrum (hip cartilage). The surgery was to sew the labrum back together and pin it down, and shave down the bone overgrowth. They did it all arthroscopically. I'm really glad I had it done, even though recovery was frustrating!

I talked a little more about recovery here if you're interested.

Your insides will boil out of your eye sockets like a science fair volcano.

Was yours a total hip replacement?

She won't be able to for quite some time because she just got a knee replacement! When I drove over to the town where my mother lives (for other reasons) I came by to pick up something for my daughter and my mom met me outside and told me her housemate was in so much pain that she hadn't slept all night and had finally fallen asleep. This was around 3 pm. I feel bad for the lady and I'm now wondering if she's going to go through with the hip replacement if the knee replacement has been this hard on her. She's in her 70s and her mother is still alive in her 90s, so hopefully she's got a lot of years to go. I hope it all helps.

Crazy part: She lives upstairs and my mom lives downstairs. They agreed to not change bedrooms. The housemate is planning on getting up and down the stairs sitting down.