Early on a Monday, I was wheeled into surgery at Fawcett Memorial Hospital in Port Charlotte, where the upper front of my right thigh was cut open, my leg muscles and tendons moved aside, so that the surgeon could reach in with a small electric saw to remove my hip joint, and replace it with one made of titanium and plastic. The entire procedure took 90 minutes..
Monday morning, three weeks later, I bicycled seven miles, stopping at MacDonald s for an oatmeal and apples breakfast.
Hip replacement surgery is among the most successful orthopedic procedures done in the United States, where about 450,000 are completed annually, with an average of 95% of patients reporting no more pain. Most hospitals have resumed scheduling hip replacements and other non emergency surgeries that had been suspended because of the pandemic.
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