My name is Marie and back in 1998 I had an artificial left hip fitted.
The whys and wherefores aren’t important. Suffice to say everything went well and I had no cause to think anything was wrong.
In September 2008 I began to experience pain in my right knee, and at first thought I’d damaged a cartilage.
Not so, it was the onset of arthritis which will eventually require the right hip and right knee to be replaced.
About this time my artificial hip began to ‘squeak’ – at best it sounded like a mouse, at worst it sounded like I was breaking wind…
As I was seeing a specialist about my knee I asked about my hip and was assured that everything was fine.
In June 2009 I developed a ‘pressure sore’ on my left hip. We thought this was caused because I could only sleep on my left side due to the pain in my right knee.
The sore responded well to treatment and all was going really well until …
To be continued
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