From the Archives: An archaeologist’s hip surgery prompts him to reimagine the experience of a Puebloan woman who survived a terrible fall centuries ago.
, I’ve spent a lot of time wondering what life was like in the past. I’ve also been injured a time or two, and I’ve wondered if any of my nonfatal injuries would have been fatal back in the day.
What is remarkable about this story—that an otherwise healthy 55-year-old who exercises and doesn’t drink or smoke still had osteoarthritis so bad that he needed two hip replacements? According to my surgeon, that’s just bad luck. What’s most remarkable to me is that hip replacements are now done on an outpatient basis. Modern medicine has advanced to a point where joint replacements are routine. I was in and out of the operating room in less than 90 minutes.Total hip replacement surgeries, using titanium parts such as those shown, have become a routine medical procedure.The anesthesiologist administers a local anesthetic, then carefully inserts a needle into your spine.
Once these extraordinary medical feats were finished and I was home, I could focus on actual healing. That, however, is when I remembered how much healing still relies on the unremarkable, daily care of nonexperts. Unable to put much pressure on my right leg, I needed help with everything—getting in and out of bed, getting dressed, and many other daily activities that most of us often take for granted.The proverb goes: “It takes a village to raise a child.
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