On March 18th of 2016, I learned that need to have hip surgery to repair a labral tear on my right hip. Up until this point, the most severe medical procedure I remember was getting my wisdom teeth out eight years ago. For me, even arthroscopic surgery sounds terrible, horrible, no good, and very bad. So, I did what any other person of my age would do -- I asked the internet for answers. Medical websites like the Mayo Clinic and Web MD helped give me a better sense of what to expect in terms of the hard facts of the procedure and recovery, but I still wanted the human element. What does it actually feel like to go through something like this? Will this all be worth it?And the real question: how will I get through it?
So, I started my search for blogs. In the age of social media and the world wide web, I thought, someone has got to have a blog about this experience, documenting it for prosperity and popularity sake. Unfortunately, the experiences I found were few and far between, and usually involved some special circumstances. I'm just a regular person. I teach high school English and like to travel. This summer, I hoped to travel to Scotland and Ireland for a month and spend some time with my niece and nephew in the States. But, all of that was put on hold, and I've been scrambling to reconfigure myself for the last six weeks. While standing in the shower, it hit me that I could provide the documentation that I'd been searching for, if not for me, then for someone else. And here we are. I'm not sure how well I'll be able to keep up with this, but I'm going to try to use this blog as motivation forward. I want to be able to finish the final post by saying I'm back to normal . . . or at least as normal as I every was. Keep your fingers crossed, and your hopes positive.
Welcome to my recovery blog.
