My Dad & I met with a surgeon yesterday in private practice who specializes in arthroscopy and anterior hip replacements. We waited for about 30 minutes while he and his PA reviewed the images. Upon initially meeting the PA, first thing he said was you are not a good candidate for arthroscopy. Your hip is far beyond that. You will be MUCH happier and recover far fast with the anterior replacement. Apparently I also have bruising on both bones. I have been praying for God's will on this, though only had questions written for the other. I have more now! :} Completely missed asking about stem cell therapy. Doesn't sound like I'm a good candidate for that either. My Dad & I looked at each other, all I could say was Oh! well....I wondered about that. When he explained the advantages of it, we were both floored. Outpatient, no crutches, no need for general anesthetic, I will be given a low dose Rx of Tramadol (if I choose to fill it & take any) for 1-3 days, 100% weight bearing immediately, walker for a week, cane for a week, then nothing. While I scheduled it for 2 wks after Easter, it took me the rest of the day to process and wrap my head around it. When I got back to work, I sat in my car and cried in amazement. Everything I had been most concerned with, was washed away! It will be done at an surgical center up the street from their practice. We were very impressed with both he and his PA, extremely informative. We asked about ROM limitation as my aunt was told 15 yrs ago she could never raise her knee higher than 90. When I showed him how high I could lift my other knee, he was pretty positive, though did not directly say yes. Seems individual and based on strength, stretching, and probably healing of all soft tissue (ligaments and tendons).
Prayers for healing tonight. Sometimes I think the hardest thing is not doing God's Will, but finding out what exactly God's Will is in any given situation. But I suppose that is what the Holy Spirit is expert at. Come Holy Spirit..
Now on my list is to ask about an RFID tag built into it. No digital component, only solid titanium and plastic, thank you.
Fr Cizsek in his wonderful book He Leadeth Me gave the best treatise on this I've ever read. After the desperate situation he was in with the KGB interrogator--threatened and exhausted he went close to despair. He felt God had abandoned him. In his cell he just simply gave himself over into God's hands. "Lord to whom should we go..." confronting the depths of his own weakness he became like a little child. Complete surrender. Suddenly he was suffused with absolute peace. Total confidence in God. Absolutely fearless about what lay ahead. The next day the KGB interrogator was astonished. Instead of the broken man of the day before was a calm serene man. When threatened death if he didn't cooperate against the Church he mery said "shoot me. I will be with God that much sooner." The lesson he learned and shared was that the will of God is what is happening to you at each moment. The secret is to abandon yourself to God in every single moment. Embrace His Holy Will and be as a child. To me it was so powerful. I dont always live up to the knowledge but I try.
I am afraid I do not know enough about Fr Cizesek as I would very much like to. But it strikes me the teach saint carries particular virtues preminently. These come about through their greatest temptations and trials. Like gold tried in the furnace. In the Father's case humanly, everything looked like utter failure and defeat. Yet he turned these to a huge victory by leaving things with God. A huge lesson to us all.
That was my prayer for two days ahead of my consultation, as the anticipation increased up. Show me what you want me to do Lord. I know I need to have something done and will no doubt be surgery. What is your will?
It is a big deal but i do have a few friends who got a new hip and never regretted it. They are all active now and in no pain. Sending prayers
That's what keep hearing. No one has ever regretted it, only wondered why they waited. I can't imagine why people wait til they're bone on bone, if recovery is that much easier.
Yes. Father Cizsek was a very very smart well educated Jesuit and somewhat stubborn --he himself says this. He was self sufficient and sure of his own abilities even up against the KGB. He also had great faith in God and in his mission to Russia but----he was relying on himself and not on God. When he had come to the limit of his own strength he despaired until --in his darkest moment---he just gave everything over to the Lord. And it was then the floodgates of grace opened up.
He did five years solitary confinement in the Lubayanka the KGB killing prison. The long time is quite something in itself. but my guess as a Jesuit and taken to this particular prison he must have expected to be murdered daily. Perhaps he even heard the shots as people were killed everyday. I can't imagine. Solitary confinement in prison was were I learnt to pray myself. It was a very great grace. I remember the Abbot in the monastery was upset when I pointed out, joyfully, how like a prison is to a Monastery. But really it is. There are prison cells, the monks live in cells. The monastery is all male, the prison all male. The monastery is surrounded by a wall, the prison too. The monastery food was appalling the prison food not too bad. That was the main difference. Oh yes and you got to watch TV and listen to the radio in jail, also to read newspapers not so prison. Solitary confinement is wonderful for prayer.
