What is Hip?

Here’s the newest.

I encountered a new stabbing-like pain in my inner hip Sunday night. I went and saw an orthopedic hip specialist Tuesday morning. After several X-rays, a brief exam, and bone-chilling stare, the doc immediately ordered an Arthrogram joint MRI. Told me not to walk without crutches, not to drive unless without pain, and protect the leg and hip at all costs. There is either an impingement of the femur in the hip joint, a stress fracture, or both. Surgery is usually the only option.

How will this affect my everyday life? I can’t drive to pick up or see Gabe. I can’t participate in the activities, which I had planned to do with my brother this weekend. I can’t attend lodge meetings because it requires going up and down stairs plus walking. I will lose two days a week with Gabe as my ex is now placing him in an after school program. The joys and freedoms, I have grown accustomed to; are being stripped away.

Amazing! I beat cancer. I did the impossible. I should have died 4 years ago. However, here I am. A broken-down, beaten shell of a man I once was, alive, but yet unable to live. What a waste!

~Adam