The care continues to be top-notch. Everyone on our floor takes great care of me. I really don’t know how I could do this without them. They are with me when I’m up and they are with me when I’m down. I’ve learned over the last few days that they’ve been with me while I am up even though many of them really did not know what was wrong. A few comments were made where I asked the nurses to just take a look at the x-rays taken a few days after I got here. These are not post accident films; they are post surgery films. I do not think they have access to the 1000+ images that we brought over from a medical center. Those show a lot before the surgeries.

To a person, the facial expressions completely changed and they said they cannot believe how serious it is. I then realized many of them thought I simply had a cracked hip or it was getting hips replaced and I was staying here a bit longer for some reason.  My nurse told me that she really hasn’t seen this kind of injury here before. All of them said that they cannot believe my positive personality when they see how bad the injury is. I have to just remind them that no matter what the injury is, we have to be positive to get the best results and to not go crazy. 

This tracks with what I have heard from some folks recently. I’ve been getting calls or emails suggesting I would be home pretty soon, or even out and about pretty soon. I don’t know who out there thanks this is a basic hip replacement or routine hip injury, but that idea seems to prevail. I wonder if people think I am somehow really just malingering and staying here longer than I need to. Well, malingering is not really the word I would use, but it’s close. I’m not asking for anything, but I do want to make sure people know how bad this is. I am not trying to garner sympathy. I have all the visitors and all the help I can take.  But, while I usually don’t care what people think, I do not want people to underestimate what this is and think I am just lying around. I am not.