I got a call from a resident at my surgeon’s office today. My new surgery date is March 14th. I feel confident that it will not change again. He explained why they’ve been changing the dates. The first time was because they had too many surgeries scheduled that day and wanted more time to spend [...]

My NYC surgeon’s office called me at 6PM tonight with some pretty good news. They successfully rescheduled 3 other surgeries so that I could get operated on March 4th. Just one minor issue: the surgeon is leaving for a conference in California the day after my surgery. To be honest, it doesn’t really matter to [...]

Got a call Friday at 4PM from the surgeon’s office in NYC. I knew immediately what they were going to tell me, I didn’t even need to hear her say it. “You’re going to want to scream,” she says. I tell her she’s probably right. The doctor was looking over the upcoming surgery schedules and [...]

A couple months ago I was feeling like crap every day and realized that I wasn’t sleeping very well. I was constantly being woken up by the pain in my hip. So I started taking 2 Percocets every night in an attempt to sleep better. For a while things improved and I was able to [...]