Attended My Local Hospital Emergency Department To Advocate For My Right Artificial Hip Revision Surgery
[ Sunday September 21st 2025 at 3:03 pm ]
It went very well at the hospital. My emergency department doctor is happy to write my surgeon a letter.
In fact they were talking about me at the nursing station. Before going to the hospital I looked up all the dates that were relevant to my right artificial hip. The nurses really appreciated the way that I advocated for myself and made it easy to help me.
My right artificial hip is in the socket today. I am caught in a vicious cycle. I am very physically weak from what I've been enduring. The most recent result of this is causing it to be a real struggle to get my meals.
Without a response from my September 8th 2025 letter to my surgeon I decided to attend the local hospital emergency department. My purpose today was to ask if the emergency department doctor would reach out to my surgeon in language he would understand that is representative of the evolving urgency of the challenges my right artificial hip in hardware failure is causing me. In short I have asked the emergency department doctor to communicate I wasn't "crying wolf" in the letter I sent my surgeon on September 8th 2025. The emergency department doctor is happy and willing to do this. He said he would draw attention to the increased challenges and pain my right artificial hip is causing me.
Several nurses expressed appreciation in making it easy to help me. They also complimented me in my ability to advocate for myself. It made me feel great. I don't enjoy going to the hospital emergency department. I want to get my life back. It has been frustrating. It was nice being built up by the nursing staff.
In 2018 I wrote a letter to a dietitian in Belleville asking if she would guide me in 5 specific areas of my life. I was given an appointment. One of the areas of help I needed was to figure out how I could eat a healthy breakfast when I really needed more rest. She gave me a recipe for a fruit based breakfast oatmeal cookie. The idea was for me to bake several batches and then freeze the cookies. On the days when I need to go right back to bed I could unthaw one in the microwave, eat it and get myself back in bed while still being groggy and will find it easy to fall asleep again. With this in mind I stopped to buy groceries on my way home from the hospital emergency department. I've purchased various fruit with the intent to make up several batches of this. This is now the best I am able to come up with if warming up a frozen meal is too challenging from the physiological effect my right artificial hip is causing me.