May 8th is the day!

Wow - I finally have a surgery date! May 8th is the day - its finally here.. about.. 7 months after the initial injury. However, surgery plans have changed a bit.

Dr. Stover is going to do a FEMORAL osteotomy, labral repair and hip capsule repair. During the surgery, he will decide if he wants to do the periacetabular osteotomy, ALSO. Yikes - thats going to be rough, but we will see. So the femoral osteotomy is obviously a osteotomy of my femur (leg bone) - the neck of it where it fits into my hip socket. He is going to cut away bone from there, pull my femur forward, secure it with rods and pins (the most basic way to explain it) and then he will see if he wants to do the PAO. All that will be an incision on top of my thigh. After that, he will make an incision on the side of my thigh, through my old scar, and repair my labrum and pull my hip capsule tight.

I'm really nervous, so words of encouragement would be nice! I'm not so nervous for the actual surgery since I've already been through a couple, but terrified for afterwards. I know the recovery is going to be really hard, and that week in the hospital I can only imagine the pain I'll be in. But once its all over, its over! Thats the good thing.

I was told I need 8-10 weeks off work. Luckily, I get to work from home! So thats great! I am going to spend the first few weeks with my mom since I'll need 24 hour care. Bryce will take care of Bella and go to work. Bella will still be in daycare mon-weds. After the first couple weeks, I'll come back home because I *think* i'll be able to manage by myself thoughout the day by then. I am just going to campout in the bedroom and have everything I could possibly need by my bed.

Welp, thats that! I probably won't write anything else till after my surgery.. I won't have much to do so I'll probably post a lot about how I'm doing and such. If anyone wants to come visit me, feel free!!!