Is ignorance bliss?
So after a million scans and consultants appointments, I finally have an operation date: January 11th 2019, this time to my right hip. I’ll be having a procedure to shave the head of the femoral bone (ball), and to trim and repair some damaged tissue in the socket. I’ve had 8 operations so far, so I’m used to all the tests and jargon that’s then thrown at you from this point forward. We’re increasingly becoming a nation for blame, and certainly so if it all goes wrong, but surgeons are just people, they make mistakes. Luckily it’s not overly common for anything major to happen. But, to cover their arses, the amount of ‘mights’ that they reel off to you is overwhelming, even for the pros like myself. Hip operations have come a long way over the last few decades and an arthroscopy (keyhole surgery) is more and more common. Although hip arthroscopy has been shown to be a relatively safe procedure, with a lower rate in comparison to open hip surgery, it’s still a more technically...