Post-Surgery

It's getting hot and humid out there--summer is right around the corner here in So FL!

I finally had surgery on my hip last Wednesday.  I saw my surgeon this morning; he said it all went very well.  He removed 16-17 little loose "bodies" and the inflamed lining.  I also had a labral tear (tear in the ring of cartilage around joint cavity) that he repaired.  I'm on crutches and have to wear a brace that keeps my leg from abducting or extending back too far.  I am also not supposed to internally rotate my leg (the labral tear was in the inside front area).  Physical therapy will begin next week--dr said six weeks, then another six weeks of more intense PT.  Then...  I can begin to get back to my running!  Yay!
My runners are doing great.  Several of them ran a local 10k this past weekend and I wanted to go.  But my husband had a terribly bad cold, bad enough for him to spend most of Sunday in bed, and I didn't think I was up to driving over to the race by myself as I was just four days post-op.  I want to get some more video of them.  There are some 5k's coming up I will go to.  I want to get some racing video and some doing things like form drills and techniques.

Here I am with my brace on...

It's Back - Synovial Chondromatosis

It's back. The disease is back. The surgeon told me not to worry, it wouldn't come back, very unlikely to come back.

My hip and leg have been getting worse over the months instead of better, so I finally went back to the ortho doctors. They thought it might be coming from my lower back, had an MRI--no, not my back. I had an MR arthrogram a couple weeks ago... wasn't very hopeful of anything showing up because nothing did the last time. But there it was.

From what I understand now, this thing is like cancer (though not cancer--it's a benign condition) in that if you don't get it all, if there are still cells left, it can come back.

It's not as far along this time, but I still can't run.. I mean really run. I've been trying to get my mileage up and run a little faster, but whenever I do, I start to break down... And now it's hurting all the time.

So, I'm looking at arthroscopic surgery again. Hopefully they'll get it all this time.