What I Did in March '24 -- Susan Price
What did I do in March? I was smitten, hip and eye. The Hip I'd had severe arthritis in my left hip for two or three years. I used to go to the gym and I loved walking in the countryside, but the pain was so bad, I became pretty much house-bound. My partner and friends nagged me to ask for a referral to a consultant, and after the usual delay (thank you so much, Tories), I finally saw a Trauma and Orthopaedic consultant in December '23. He glanced at my x-ray and said simply, "That hip joint is utterly destroyed. The only possible treatment here is a total hip replacement." I was placed on the waiting list. Friends and family immediately ganged up on me again. My younger brother and sis-in-law work within the NHS and know its little ways. My Scots partner has always been one for striding to the front and insisting (politely but very firmly, in that brogue which the English often seem to find scary) on being heard. Then there were the members of Flatcap (who k