I dunno, The surgery (ease of and recovery from) has really improved since the bad old days. Unless you have some underlying health conditions which could complicate things, I see no reason not to go for it. Depressingly, my surgeons both remarked that it is not uncommon to need the replacements replaced, assuming I live long enough.
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AneriCanadian half Ukrainian trademark attorney & writer. Sloan Foundation Fellowship from AFI. Published three novels, two traditional publishers. On BlieSky a
My first hospital stay was for 8 weeks to have both hips replaced in the same stay. It was 1974 and I was a godawful mess at the time, unable to walk. The hips were all metal and very heavy (early versions of what the prosthesis was to become) and…
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