Yall, my right hip has been a pain in my butt since 2010. My first “repair” was 2013. I did recover from it and had many awesome years of barrel racing with the repair. But every run hurt. I am tough. I’d just take it easy after a run and do it again in a few days. Well…. 2023 I decided to teach Whiskey about spurs🫣 and it went good! So I let him lope a little and that brat knocked my foot on the round pen rails. I still had my spurs on. I don’t remember him bucking. I do remember me bouncing up and out of the saddle and the thwack on the ground to my right hip and the left side of my lower back. I have bulging discs that are on my lower back so that pretty much did me in. I could not use my right leg. My kid was home. I called him and asked for help. He came out, helped me stand up, and kept the horse loping in the round pen (from the ground) while I went in to take a pain pill. I could hardly walk. I came back out and, with my kid’s help, got back on Whiskey. We loped five laps each direction. We road back to the trailer, past the trailer and I slid off. My kid haltered him, removed all his tack and turned him out for me. Then I caught a ride to the hospital. Honestly I thought I’d broken something. I did not. I had a hematoma on my back and tore my labrum in my hip AGAIN. So I had two surgeries on that hip in 2023. I did not recover from surgery two. See, the second was to repair the outer layer of the hip where I slipped and tore the surgical holes from the original surgery in July. I still felt like my labrum was messed up.
My surgeon was cocky and just told me I need to quit horses. So I fired him. I found a new surgeon! He did some tests. He get me in for an injection (my sixth in that hip) knowing that six to the hip is going to cause softening of the femoral head and allow the gap to close…. And it did. Ouch! So I saw him the same week as the injection on November 1st. Then I prayed. I begged and I prayed for a new hip. Being the end of the year, he had to make a space for me but… they got me in for December 30th! I’m totally ready to get a new hip! This will be life changing!
On the flip side, my brain is deep diving into prep, house set up, post op care for me and my kid, and all the things!!! I did get the ok to stay over night. Thank God. That will give me the opportunity to figure out what was done and have IV pain management. It will let me explore and evaluate my situation. I will come home on Tuesday, New Years Eve. I have been told that this will be so much easier than the repairs. I’m praying that is true! I know God is in control and has put all of this in motion! So if you have time, say a quick prayer for me!
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