A 'THR'?
Total Hip Replacement and with those words my journey began.
The NHS is in a dreadful state and as my hip problems can be related to the loss of my leg, they are uninsurable (pre existing conditions et al), so NHS it is. Mostly, the problems are caused by hours of 'good toes and naughty toes', dreams of Oddette and Odile, points and eating of tissues.
Proper research is the key to this, so I read everything I could; web (scary), books (few and far between), doctors info (sadly limited).
New treatments such as hyaluronic acid were requested, steroid injections into the hip but all were refused. The real reason is of course, cost but I was told that I wasn't ready for them yet, despite spending my evenings crawling about the house like an injured cat at the end of the day.
When I finally had a referral, the surgeon said it was too late for any other treatment and I should have been referred earlier but admitted I hadn't due to funding restrictions.
He was also somewhat embarrassed to find I only had one leg (GP forgot to put it on notes).
Worse was that no one wanted to do a THR on someone with only one leg - too dodgy - so I was referred from one to another ... 'ever since I was a young boy, I played the silver ball' ... I was the silver ball.
