My hippie life!: Daily Blog

Monday, March 15, 2010

Daily Blog

Hey guys. This is going to be my main blog in the next few weeks. I'm getting rid of Facebook but I will still have this blog and my HipChick blog (let me know if you want/need that other link)so you can follow me and my life/ healing progress on those blogs.

Look forward to more updates..

~me

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HipRNMarch 16, 2010 at 7:19 PM
Sounds good to me! Will miss you on FB though! Happy healing:) xoxo
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AnonymousMarch 19, 2010 at 5:25 PM
Randomly stumbled onto your blog! Hi! *waves* So glad to see your surgery went well and you are recovering well - you go girl! Glad the wedding prep is fun! When is the date? Congrats again! You are going to have so much fun as a married woman! ;-)
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ShellyMarch 23, 2010 at 10:43 AM
Hey there. Yep this is my bolg.. ta-da! The wedding is in August, and we can't wait for it to finally be here :-) It's crazy to think we have already been engaged almost 3 months. wow!
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Surgery Info

Dr. Kevin Scheid will be the Dr. preforming the operations. The first surgery will be Friday, January 8th 2010 at 10:30am. The second Surgery is September 21st 2010 at 8am.

Congenital hip dysplasia is an abnormal formation of the hip joint in which the ball at the top of the thighbone (femoral head) is not stable in the socket (acetabulum). Also, the ligaments of the hip joint may be loose and stretched. The degree of instability or looseness varies. A baby born with DDH may have the ball of his or her hip loosely in the socket, the looseness may worsen as the child grows and becomes more active, or the ball may be completely dislocated at birth.
Left untreated, DDH or Congenital hip dysplasia leads to pain and osteoarthritis by early adulthood. Also it only occurs in about 1 in 1,000 births.
So it's something i was born with but just wasn't caught at birth.. Whats different in my case is my femur has been slightly flattened so rotating the cup will be a little harder than on someone else having the surgery.

A periacetabular Osteotomy- "Periacetabular" means around the acetabulum. "Osteotomy" means to cut bone. In PAO, the patient's own joint is surgically altered to create a broader load-bearing surface. During the surgery, the acetabulum is sawed apart from the rest of the pelvis, in a few places and is repositioned to cover the head of the femur, and secured with metal hardware. If necessary, the head of the femur is repositioned by surgery on the femoral neck.