Monday, September 21, 2009

Surgery...

So I just thought I'd give a quick update/info post. My nurse from my doctor's office in Colorado (the surgeon who works with my hips) just called today, and she talked with my doctor about how I'm feeling, my MRI, and things going on and he said that I'm going to need to have surgery again! :'( She said that he's going to go in and he'll drain it (because I needed to have that procedure done anyways), but than for the big surgery part, he'll have to take out part of my IT band and he's going to use it to create a new hip capsule.
I had a similar type of thing done on my right hip, where he took part of the IT band and created a new labrum. So, that's what they'll have to do for my left hip, but creating a hip capsule instead. They're hoping that by doing this it will make it thicker so that it won't tear as easily, and they're rebuilding it because they said it's torn so many times that there's not much left to try and repair. So, I'm crossing my fingers that this does the trick!!!
We don't have a set date quite yet...the surgery coordinator is supposed to call me tomorrow to set everything up. I do know that it won't be for at least a few weeks, because I have to meet with the endocrinologist on the first and talk with him about things and I also have to go to Seattle Oct. 5th-7th to meet with a medical genetics specialist for my ehlers danlos. So, it'll be sometime after that. I'll let ya know for sure though when I have the date.

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