time for a redo

Well, I've learned something interesting today.  I had an appointment with a joint speciallist at ONE this afternoon.  I wasn't sure if it was my imagination or just a sign of getting older but it seemed to me that my left hip has been hurting more lately. Turns out there's a reason.  The doctor (young and cute, by the way) showed me the X rays they took today compared to one taken in 2012 (a year after I broke my hip). Even I could see the difference.  When I broke my hip in 2011 the doctor (another doctor) fixed it by replacing only the ball.  The socket was not damaged.  However, it seems that over the intervening years, the artificial ball has been rubbing against and wearing away the socket bone.  Pardon me if those aren't the correct technical terms but you understand.  In case you prefer the technical, my daughter, the surgical technologist, says the ball was rubbing through my acetabulum.  So now I need to have a whole hip replacement to fix the half hip replacement from 2011.  I was just starting to wonder what I would be doing to keep busy this summer.