How the Experience of Surgery and Tremendous Physical Pain Changes You Forever

This Wednesday was the one-year anniversary of my hip surgery.

Unfortunately, this anniversary makes me sad. Recovering from this surgery sent me through hell and back, and I am not better for it. One-and-a-half hours of surgery, and I shall never be the same again. I went in thinking I will have to endure pain, but ultimately I will be fixed. That was certainly the goal, but it didn’t pan out that way. I still cannot sit without pain.

From what I can tell, the surgery was not botched.

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