Prayer Request for Walk and my wife.

[Walk and Talk]

Hello, it is me/us again.

Since being able to get up and around out of bed (two years in or upon my bed because of the auto accident), I have been able to navigate with the use of two canes. During a good moment, I could even limp 20 feet or so without the use of the canes. That all ended today.

Do to an onset of sudden exquisite pain in my injured leg; I ended up in the Emergency Room yet another time. The fear was that the “non-union” of femur bone had given way, or the bone had rebroken, or that the bone infection had returned. As it turns out, arthritis has set into my joints such that I have no more cartilage in the hip. I am bone upon bone.

Therefore, I am back to using crutches and the walker. The slightest weight on the right leg generates unbearable pain.

The doctor said it looked like I need a hip replacement. However, there is no stable femur bone to mount a replacement hip into. The troublesome femur, that has not healed since the accident, is attached to the knee that has been the source of most of my pain since the accident.

To add to all this, any potential future surgeries will be complicated by my heart being in almost constant A-Fib and my being on the blood thinner Coumadin. (The Coumadin helps prevent the A-Fib from causing blood clots that could move into the brain or cause a heart attack. Remove me from the Coumadin for several weeks surrounding surgeries, and you have the blood clot danger increasing.)

No fun !!!

The VA Orthopedic Surgeon consultation is scheduled for the 29th of this month.

If you think of praying for me (and us, as this is hard on my wife) it would be appreciated.

Thanks much,
Walk and Talk