Impatient

Debi is having a procedure today that requires her to be sedated. They will stick a needle in her hip and inject her with lidocaine and steroid to see if her hip is really the cause of her pain. If this procedure is successful, she will be relieved from some of the pain for a short time. That means that she can only whine about her right hip and her back, but not her left hip. Good thing, too. She has been in pain for about 2 years but she is such a chicken she can't face the problems.

I talked to Dennis about the next few steps that she should take. She has to be OK with treatment and want to be relieved of pain before she can do this. Hip replacement surgery is in her future - about 20 years premature.

Well, today, she was given drugs in preparation for the procedure and one of them made her extremely jittery. She kicked her feet in her waiting chair like Gary Hall, Jr. trying to win the 50-freestyle. She was rather loopy from the drugs but that was great entertainment. Following the procedure she was wheeled to a recovery room and they came and got me. I, meanwhile, had hacked into a wireless network closeby so I couldn't be bothered with her being all done and stuff. I helped her get dressed and they wheeled her out to the parking lot where I almost ran over her with the car. Not what you are thinking. I was trying to get it close so she didn't have to walk far.

The hip is numb and therefore feels much better. This is actually bad news because that means that her hip is the problem and the doc says it needs to be replaced. Yuck. So the decisions facing her next will be when to get another injection for the right hip, if to have them replaced, and what to do about the guys who saw her butt hanging out of the gown as she went from waiting area to cutting table. I say flowers...