My Pre-op Is Done And My Revision Countdown Is Official! There Is HOPE In My Painful Darkness!

Yes!! As some of you know, but in case you don't, my first THR was perfect and by the fifth week I felt and appeared as if I had never had surgery! Four months later, had my second one done and it was never right from the start, so for now, 16 months, I have lived with excruciating crippling pain. My surgeon could not find the problem, saying the device was perfectly place and soon after that, I was kicked out of his practice for missing some payments to my account thereby abandoning me without pain management and any hope of fixing the problem. In effect, leaving me crippled for life.

Fast forward to now. 300 miles away from home I went to Nashville, TN, U.S.A., Vanderbilt University for my second opinion and landed, by the grace of God, with a reputable specialist in revisions of hips and knees. He found my problem immediately as my prosthesis had come loose tipping forward. At Vanderbilt, to prevent infection, the operating rooms are sealed off with self contained filtered air and the surgeon and assistants, two 5th year near graduation joint specialists instead of the usual nurses, each wear bubble hazmat suits in which they breathe their own oxygen. So basically the only germ in the surgery room will be me!

I have contacted a reputable attorney to see if there is cause for legal action against the first surgeon.

Hope. HOPE! I am looking forward to recovering my life! No longer will I be a permanent fixture on my couch!

When I first found this site, I was ready to give up and die because of the severe pain and feeling so alone.

To everyone who has supported me, THANK YOU! And I plan to pay it forward on this site to others.

Love,

Dawn, U.S.

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