The road to recovery
It’s now been five and a half months since I had a hip operation. If you believed all that film and television has taught us, you’d probably imagine that I’ve fully recovered by now, and whilst I might not be running marathons, I’m living a more active lifestyle? If only! My recovery should be anywhere between 6 to 12 months, and as I approach the 6 month mark, I’m nervous as hell. Having the operation itself is a walk in the park compared to the recovery stages. The procedure I had removed extra bone that had grown on the head of the femur/thigh bone, which had developed as my body tried to cope with a condition called retroversion of the hips. This means my whole femur is twisted at a different angle to the ‘normal’. I am and continue to be fascinated by the human body in general, but it made a bit of a faux pas, because in doing so, it meant that this extra piece of bone would attempt to distroy the inside of my hip sockets whenever I walked, sat down or literally though...