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To: Ish who wrote (18223)	3/2/1999 8:54:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Ish, the left one is getting replaced, probably right after the right one gets healed; or in Fall, so I can sit inside out of the mud. I don't want to spend part of the "summer" in bed. Now, the right one gets operated on on the 29th. Because they think they can save it, and make it so it never needs replaced. To do that, they hollow out the bone head like a pumpkin, so new bone and blood tissue grows in, right up underneath the weight-bearing surface of the joint. But you have to keep ALL weight off this for 6 weeks. That's OK. If you don't, it will crack and split out of your hip like a broken guitar string. This is what they call the "coring," and it's a 50/50 last ditch try when the MRI shows the bone dying like it is. But it's worth the shot, because it lasts if it works; and no replacements are necessary. If they'd been paying attention, they could have saved them both, by starting this coring earlier, on both. They (and even I) should have known it was likely to happen. Should have been looking. But, insert foreign phrase. Anyway, you're right about replacing the other one ASAP. Because my luck is pretty bad, I was originally thinking, well, 45 now plus 10 yrs plus another 10 is 65. Not very old. So I was going to try to limp around on the repaired right side one. Get by as long as possible, and increase that age from 65 to oh 68-70. So go through some pain to stay out of a chair later. Then I saw the hilarity in that. I thot about my odds of living longer than twenty years. I take really good care of myself; there's not much I can give up or add. So I'm getting the left one replaced in Fall ~ one replacement, one repaired ~ or else sooner for the second operation if I can't take the pain. I'm going to go for it. I want to be able to get some stuff done, have some fun, and sit on a chair without princess pillows. I don't think this will be any big deal. Ooh. That sound like a fate tempter.