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 A tentative blog to test the temperature. |
| Casing the Joint Yesterday I had a look at the X-rays of my operation on the hip. I was expecting something like the surgeon’s description of the procedure - “You were lucky. Although it was fractured, the pieces didn’t move and it was just a matter of holding them together with a plate and a screw.” That sounded to me like a very minor thing indeed and the tiny wound resulting from their access point seemed to confirm it. So I was amazed at the size of the thing holding everything together. It was like a very sturdy chunk of metal in the shape of an L, one end drilled into the ball joint with a huge screw, the other connected by two smaller screws to the femur. How they managed to get that lot through the tiny access wound I can’t imagine. But the fact is, they did. And everything has healed up satisfactorily and the contraption works very well. They do indeed work wonders these days. All of which is to proclaim the realisation that came to me: I can never have another MRI with that thing inside me! Might as well look on the bright side. Word count: 195. |
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