u/Dangerous-Music5921

okay this might sound silly, but a year or two ago i got myself a simple casio watch bcs i thought it was cute, but it helps sooo much with time blindness. having the time on your wrist whenever and wherever is honestly so helpful. i am on time way more than i used to be.

you don’t have to pull your phone out to see the time and then get distracted by a notification or go on social media for “a few minutes” and are suddenly an hour late. i also enjoy the simple timer feature that my watch has so i can set a timer for getting ready or just remind myself how long i’ve been getting ready for.

anyways, if you struggle with time blindness, a simple watch could help quite a bit!!

hiii! i had a hip scope in december and one about 4 weeks ago. the one in december was super rough, i was 18 at the time and had spent a semester at university and had to take my second semester of my freshman year of college off to get these hip surgeries.

i struggled with chronic hip pain for years before actually realizing that not everyone has these issues, and over time the symptoms just got worse. my first semester, i went to pt 2-3 times a week and they were super anal abt cancellations and getting a certain amount of sessions a week. i’d get charged like 35 dollars for cancelling and not rescheduling for a later time in the week and i was going 3 times a week for over a month. that’s A LOT for a full time college student who’s trying to navigate living away from home for the first time. and to top it all off the pt didn’t help a lick and if anything just made me flare up all semester. i was complaining abt my hip pain every day and it was really impacting my mental health as chronic pain just weighs on anyone so heavily.

i didn’t even know this was an issue until this past summer. we finally went into the doc and got me an xray, mri, and found out i had hip impingement and pt could help but surgery may be needed. i had hope that pt could help enough to get me thru my first year and i could maybe get the surgery the next summer if needed, but that’s not enough time for two surgeries. so, this is not at all where i imagined myself being a year ago, i had no idea this was even a possibility. it’s been extremely hard to cope with that. i’m just so deeply unhappy with this situation and recovery is just fucking exhausting and my first one was so difficult, and i was soooo anxious and down for so long as soon as i had a surgery date on my calendar, and i was in denial about it until i moved back home.

i got really down after my first surgery, i had no idea what to expect so any new pain during recovery would make me overthink that this was the wrong decision and i made everything 10x worse. i am basically fully recovered from that one, and my second surgery has gone so much better. but i am still so upset with my situation. i don’t regret doing it at all and i know 100% without a doubt that this was the right decision. i couldn’t mentally handle being in pain everyday anymore with no end in sight, at least with recovery you actually get the satisfaction of progress.

i was talking to my girlfriend about everything and she was explaining that i overall just seem really depressed since my first surgery, or a little before my surgery when i knew i had to have it. obviously i have good times and bad times but like overall have just been down, and it makes her sad to see me like that. and she is right, i just am so unhappy, and i want to figure out how to be happy again. i don’t really know how to accept that this just is my life, and i just don’t want people knowing i got hip surgery bcs it’s just embarrassing to me for some reason that im 19 years old and had to have hip surgery. in my brain i know that it’s nothing to be embarrassed about but i can’t stop feeling that way. i also hateeee the “your so young” comments from nurses or just anyone and im so over explaining whats wrong with my hip to people.

i was about 3 months out from my first surgery when i got my second one. i had just recovered and got some sense of normalcy and BOOM, let’s do it again. i was in denial about having to get my second surgery in a similar way i was about my first, i was just hoping i magically wouldn’t need the other hip done.

it’s just so depressing sometimes, and i just felt like sharing bcs i wanted to get this off my chest and im sure there are people who relate. however, i know this post is focusing on the negatives, there are so so so many positives as well—my amazing pts here, having an amazing support system helping me through this, reconnecting with old friends, etc etc., not to mention how much better i already feel physically. my hip pain is very minimal and im so lucky to be walking so well this soon after my surgery. i don’t ever want to discourage anyone from getting the help that they need. surgery is a very empowering journey and it can be so worth it!

hii! i am abt 4 weeks post op, surgery went great and already had the other hip done so yayyyyy im finally done! but.. i dislike my scars and more prominently i have very obvious self-harm scars on my hip. i really wanted to get a hip tattoo this summer so i could at least semi-cover up my scars as i just don’t like the idea of people knowing that abt me. i did some research and it honestly doesn’t sound like im going to be able to get it done this summer, but since its a scope and there is only two small incisions does that timeline change??