Oh, poppycock, I called it at the arraignment.
I'm going for an MRI tonight. Yeah, this is what my life has become. Saturday evening at the hospital, getting a bone scan to look for avascular necrosis in my femur! It was either this, or Wednesday at 11:30 p.m., which is entirely weird. I guess they keep the X-Ray and MRI department open for emergencies that come through which may require surgery, so they just book appointments whenever since they're busy.
Two things have become obvious to me.
1. I really cannot grasp the concept of grafting. I know that they gave me the graft surgery as they believed it was my best chance at avoiding a total hip replacement. However, I can't understand how that works...the bone was dead. I guess I thought death was final, but they drilled a hole in the bone, put some fresh bone in there, and attached the arteries. Then, months later, it appears the bone has totally healed, fully alive, and is on it's way back to normal. It's such a weird idea. I guess I should be used to it. My dad brought orchids back to life by grafting all the time. One time he even saw a nice orchid at an airport, and sliced off a tiny bit with his pocket knife, then grew one at home. The human body and it's healing properties are pretty amazing.
2. You only hear about horror stories. When I did research on this surgery, I didn't hear many success stories. There were a few skeptics dismissing it's effeciveness, but not much else. I guess the surgery has an 80 % success rate, which is pretty good, and the people who had the surgery in the 70's and healed just don't bother telling people that it was good surgery. If it was normally a failure, I'm not sure my surgeon would have gone through with it.
They have these 20th Birthday Cornerstone videos on the Cornerstone website that are pretty funny. Music is a very fickle thing...the musicians who played in 1984 were totally cool at the time, and now look hilarious. Mike Roe (77's) looked pretty goofy in his many incarnations, and seeing the L.S.U. Mike Knott/Cookie Monster mask footage still makes me wish I was there that year.
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