Surgery is in 2 days.

Well seeing as how this is my first post, I guess I will start in the begining. 9 months ago (after my last surgery) I started having pain in my right hip. Of course at the time I thought it was just muscle cramps from laying on the couch for so long and recovering, but as time went on and the pain only got worse I started to worry. Then in April of 2011 the pain got so bad that I couldn't even bend over to put on my shoes, or extened my leg out in front of me while sitting without extreme pain. I forgot to mention that at this tme I was "training" for a half marathon in Indianapolis, and of course I also happen to be a stubborn polish man so I chose to wait to see a doctor until after I ran the half marathon in fear that they would tell me......not to run.

Fast foward to the week after the race (by the way, I managed to get a personal best 2 hours 27 minutes) the pain was so bad I was coming home from work crying so I decided to go see a local sports medicine doctor. After some xrays, and an MR Arthrogram the doctor told me that I had what is called Hip Impingement.

Basically there is an extra bone growth on my femoral head/neck and everytime I flex my leg a certain way, that boney growth trys to force itself into the socket (ouch!). So the doctor sent me to see an Orthapedic specialist in Indianapolis and after some more xrays, he decided the best thing for me was to get arthroscopic surgery on my hip. The xrays showed some extra problems; it looks like I also have some cartilige damage on the inside of the socket, some pincer growth and some labrum damage. All very painful things. I would put up pictures but this post is to long as is.

Anyways so now I have surgery scheduled on tuesday. It's been a long road just getting to here and a hard one as well. I know that the road ahead is just as long and bumpy, but I can't wait to start (at least this time I'll have two good tires).