The Journey Begins For My Right Artificial Hip Revision Surgery
[ Monday November 24th 2025 at 9:21 am ]
I have just boarded the train for Kingston Ontario. My surgery is on Wednesday. The plan is to spend this evening and tomorrow at a hotel so the pain caused by travel begins to settle before I have my surgery. I really don't want to die from the anaesthetic during surgery. It is really important to get my pain under control before the surgery starts. I am anticipating this challenge based on the pain I experienced when I attended my pre-surgery screening appointment. I am trying to do the bit I have control over to help myself. I am ready to leave the challenges this damn artificial hip is causing me behind, heal from surgery and then figure my life out. I haven't lost my ambition for life. It is just that the past few months have been pure crisis management. At some point I ma going to need to figure out what goals I should continue to pursue and what is better left go. In any case I have tried my best. This surgery is how to help me to start fixing my life.
Today is extra special. I have been so grateful for the care I received while in hospital following my other artificial hip being replaced on April 2nd 2025 that I put together a gift basket for the orthopaedic ward staff:
- Word searches and crosswords
- Sudoku puzzles
- Mazes
- Day planners
- Journals
- Kits for any of the staff who have children to decorate their Christmas tree
- (20) $15 Gift Cards for Tim Horton's coffee shop
I was just so very grateful for all the practical help, the help involved in teaching me how to walk again and the encouragement they gave me that I was doing a good job as I tried to heal. When I first arrive in Kingston today I will be heading to the hospital and surprising them. I really looking forward this. I just don't have the words to say how grateful I still am for the care I received in April 2025.