Starting off..

Well hi there! I'm starting this blog so you all can follow me as I prepare for my PAO I'm having in January, 2010. It's less than 9 weeks and I'm starting to get a little scared...

Well, let me give you an update on the past 4 years or so. I started having hip pain when I was 18. I went for a physical and my Dr. didn't think much of the pain and told me to wait for my next visit and let him know how it was feeling then. 2 years later I told him it was still bothering me and he sent me to have an x-ray and told me he would call me in 10 days after he got back from vacation. I got a call that evening and he told me he wanted me to go to a specialist right away. He thought it might be hip dysplasia or a sports hernia. I went to 3 different specialists all saying it MIGHT be this, it MIGHT be that. I was getting tired of going to different Dr.’s and not getting any answers.

With the third Dr. I had a CT scan. We got the results and he wanted to send them to a Dr. in St. Louis. A few weeks went by, no word; A month, then 2 months and still no word. I was getting upset that I wasn't hearing anything. I would call and they said they would check up on how things are going... no return call. In December on '07 I made plans to move to Bellingham WA in May of '08. I decided not to bother with the Dr.'s anymore because I wasn't even going to be in Indiana in a few months. While I was in WA I was in much more pain. Big hills, mountains, working with and riding horses, and other activities, all played a part in my hip hurting a lot more.
( I can't even describe the pain I was (and I'm still in) and it's hard to understand unless you have been in this situation before)
I moved back to Indiana the last week of August, '08. I talked to my parents and we decided to look for another Dr. to start up the process again with. We saw one more specialist and he told me he wanted me to have an MRI Arthrogram. After those results came back, I was sent from that specialist to (my current Dr.) Dr. Kevin Scheid. After meeting with him, I was diagnosed with Congenital Hip Dysplasia and the process he wanted to take me through was to have a PAO with is short for Periacetabular Osteotomy.

I had just started a new job and applied for new insurance so I told Dr.Scheid I would wait to figure out all the issues with my insurance before I took the next step.
A few weeks back I called the Dr.'s office and talked to a lady who deals with all the financial stuff. I got some good news saying it would be about $3,000 less (out of pocket) than I thought I would be paying. (yay!) Everything went through with the ordering of my surgery and I got the call saying it was a go. So I picked the date and now it's just a waiting process for January to get here.

It’s already been 4 years, and the process is just getting started. God is good and He will be looking out for me, I just ask that you would please be praying for me.