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It'll go right down there…my new hip, that is.
That’s right, I’ll be going in for hip replacement surgery soon, folks. After Wednesday, I’ll be taking some time off from Flickr for a while, first to enjoy Thanksgiving and the weekend, and then to get the new parts installed, since the original equipment is worn out.
I’m not sure how long I’ll be offline, but it’s said that recovery from hip replacement surgery can be relatively quick. So here’s hoping…
Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American Flickr friends who are celebrating this week, and a Happy Holiday season to all. It’s a good time too for me to say thanks to all for your comments, faves, friendship and support; it is very much appreciated.
I’ll see you all when I return.
Along the River Test this morning, Ray reminded me that last year I managed to get my mobility scooter stuck fast in this gate. I had to get off the scooter and hang on to the nearest upright while he took over and manoeuvred the scooter back onto the path.
So here I am, just a few months after my hip replacement, footloose, walking through. It still seems like a miracle.
I had a total hip replacement (left side, anterior approach) on Jan 11, 2022, performed by Dr Gilbert Roc at the Kaiser Sunset facility in Los Angeles. I arranged to keep my femoral head and hip capsule, which were removed during the procedure. The kind folks at Thingergy (Burbank) produced a very high-resolution scan for me, which I've uploaded to the Internet Archive as a public domain file.
I took this photo of mum just after she'd had a very nasty fall on the pavement. Once I'd clicked the button my iPhone made the decision to make the photo a double, maybe a triple exposure. As it turned out a very appropriate decision as it summed up our experience, the confusion of the day and mum sitting broken on a chair.
Mum will be 90 this year and she was messing around trotting to the bus stop, then turned mid-run to see where I was. Down she went, body twisted with a crack. Wonderful passers by got her a chair, lifted her on to it, got her a Christmas blanket and, as you would expect, I took her photo.
When the ambulance finally arrived we learned that some people who'd rung 999 had been waiting 8 or 9 hours. Mum being 89 was a priority hence we just had a short 4 hours wait!!!
Thereafter the NHS was 8/10 they are clearly stretched in all areas........ but we went straight into a cubicle in A&E, bloods taken, 4 x-rays, an anesthetic 12 hour pain block, up to the orthopaedic unit and first down to theatre the next morning for a hip replacement. And this morning she took her first steps ;-))
Hip Hip Hooray, new hip, being iced with this Polar Care wave machine. Out patient surgery home from the Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Center.
hip replacement the next morning...composing myself in the bathroom...I'm not going to lose my shit in the final hours...we've talked and planned for just about anything for months...it will be fine, have a couple cheap beers and enjoy the evening...
Life twists and turns on you, have faith in your ability to adapt to the course of your life...commit to your knowledge of diversity and use it...
is the greatest lesson I know
Well here in 2021 I am now 15 and 12 years out after having both my hips resurfaced by orthopedic pioneer Harlan Amstutz; Dr. Amstutz doing "his" resurfacing on my hips as opposed to the more traditional total hip replacement. Both my hips are working perfectly with no endpoint in sight, and they feel and perform as though they were my natural hips; for me a life with no hip related limitations. Thank you once again, Dr. Amstutz.
Emeritus 1991 Harlan Cabot Amstutz M.D. was born in Santa Monica California on July 17, 1931. After graduating from the John Marshall High School, he went on to UCLA, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1953 with a B.A. in fine arts. While an undergraduate he played on the UCLA basketball team. He received his M.D. from UCLA in 1956. He did a rotating internship at LA County and a year of general surgery at UCLA before going to HSS for his orthopaedic surgery residency from 1958-1961. That was immediately followed by two years of military service, serving as Captain in the U.S. Air Force, stationed in Minot, N. Dakota, as Chief of Orthopaedics, Consultant Hospital, for the 862nd SAC Division, Area Veterans and local Indian reservations. This was followed by two years in London, England, the first at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital as an Honorary Registrar and the next year as Research Assistant at the Institute of Orthopaedic, also in London. Harlan then returned to HSS from 1965-1970, working at various capacities including Chief of Prosthetics and Orthotics, Associate Scientist, Lecturer and Director of Bioengineering. In 1970, he was tapped for the job of Division Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at UCLA, taking over for the founding Division Chief, Charles Bechtol, who had served since 1959. Harlan served in that capacity from 1970-1989. From 1975 until 1989, he also served as Chief of Section of Orthopaedics at the Wadsworth VA. He became Emeritus in 1990. From 1991- 2007 he was the Medical Director of the Joint Replacement Institute at Orthopaedic Hospital. He then became the Medical Director of the Joint Replacement Institute at St. Vincent Medical Center in downtown LA. He continued to work on the technologies of metal on metal surface replacements until it closed in 2015.
Harlan Amstutz was the epitome of a true academic clinician-scientist. To his credit, he has authored or co-authored 335 refereed journal articles, over 500 abstracts and 75 chapters. He has over 1000 national and international presentations and 76 invited lectureships, as well as holding 13 patents. He is editor of Hip Arthroplasty, was the author and editor of Hip Resurfacing: Principles, Indications, Complications and Results, and is the editor of Current Status of Metal-on-Metal Hip Resurfacing. In 1996, Harlan was elected to the Royal College of Surgeons of England as an Honorary Fellow (one of only seven American orthopaedic surgeons to have been so honored), and elected in 2005 as an Honorary Member of the German Orthopaedic Society. In 2007 he received AOA-Zimmer Award for Distinguished Contribution to Orthopaedics, and in 2010 he was named Distinguished Alumnus of the Hospital of Special Surgery. In addition, Harlan seems to have been president of about everything: the Orthopaedic Research Society in 1973, the North American Hip Society in 1979, the Association of Orthopaedic Chairman in 1983, the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons in 1984, the American Orthopaedic Association in 1992, and the International Hip Society in 2000. In 1970, he was an ABC Travelling Fellow, and in 1974, Harlan, along with Mark Coventry from the Mayo Clinic, were the NIH Travelling Exchange Fellows to Russia. He is a six time winner of the John Charnley Award in 1977, 1984, 1990, 1994, 2000, 17 and 2006. In 1979, he was the recipient of the Otto Frank Award for cement fixation of the femoral head in canine surface replacements, and in 1987, along with Keith Markolf, PhD, he received the Nicholas André Award for the UCLA knee ligament testing apparatus for ACL insufficiency.
In his 19-year tenure at UCLA, he established this Division as a dominant presence in bioengineering and joint replacement surgery. There, in collaboration with the Department of Engineering, he started the first PhD program in Biomechanical Engineering. He did the first leg lengthening, established the CEU (clinical evaluation unit) in 1973, and performed the first surface replacement in 1975. In those days it was all about joint replacement. Andy Cracchiolo introduced the Poly Centric Knee replacement, Gerry Finerman designed the Anametric Knee replacement, and we all used the Zimmer T-28 hip replacement system designed by Harlan. There were 4 stem sizes and 3 cup sizes and the cups and stems were cemented. The trochanter was removed 100% of the time (except at the VA where it was forbidden). The Tharies hip surface replacement system designed by Harlan was introduced in 1975. As a brand new R2 on July 1, 1975, I picked up that first patient and scrubbed on the second case. Vibrant and exciting describe those early days for the residents and faculty. In the ‘80s, Harlan introduced the DANA shoulder replacement, “Designed After Normal Anatomy,” to round out the complement of joint replacement systems and technologies.
After an illustrious career as an academic orthopaedic surgeon spanning 5½ decades, Harlan is now retired, but rumored to still be working. He and his wife Patty now have time to enjoy their children, Julie, Mark and Catherine and their second home in Maui. All those who have worked with and for Harlan wish him and his family health and happiness in the years to come. We look upon and remember our professional and social experiences Harlan and Patty as privileged.
Jeffrey J. Eckardt M.D. December 2015
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Decided to take my mom out to the park today on her first day out since her hipreplacement surgery. I took her just over the language border, into the French speaking part of the country. For all you tourist, the French part of Belgium is more beautiful. There as we were slowly strolling, and hopping on crutches, i saw this swan minding her own business floating on a pond, draped by a large willowtree.
We were at the Mill Valley Dog Park with our German shepherd Roma, as we are nearly every day, and Sammy, as she always does, was making a big fuss over someone else's cute little doggie, and as she stood up after petting the cute little doggie, she lost her balance and fell. Her right hip hit a hard surface, but luckily, her head hit a much softer surface ~ a mud puddle... That's where the cuteness and the humor ended. She had broken her hip, and there was no doubt in her mind something really bad had happened, and I was on the phone to 911. After reviewing the X-rays, the surgeon determined that a hip replacement would be necessary, and, as I write this, that is what is happening, so now I'm off to the hospital.