Jossiah
It started with mild knee pain when I was 13, in April of 2015. I thought it was just a twisted knee and kept on playing.
After months of pain in my left knee, we finally went to the hospital to get it checked out. They took me for an X-ray and told me that I was going to need immediate surgery as my left hip ball was slipping out of its joint, and could completely fall out at any given moment.
At the time I was just happy to finally have an answer and to hopefully get away from it the pain. I went through a minor SCFE surgery where they made a 1” cut in my left thigh to pin the hip in place. Easy recovery. I was back on my feet within 3 months.
Everything was all fine until about 2 years later when I had a sharp stinging pain in my left hip. I knew right away what it was.
We went to the emergency room about 2 days later and found out that I had actually broken the titanium pin and it was disintegrating. They had to move me to the top of the list as this was declared an emergency surgery.
They went into my left leg with a 12” incision, pulled the femur out, dug through the hip ball and joint to get all of the pieces out, and then put 5 pins in — 2 of which would get taken out 2 weeks later.
This surgery was more intense and the recovery took about a year. I had physio every day and doctors warned me that it was very possible I would never run again. But I just wanted to prove them wrong.
After I was cleared for all activity I had another pain in my right hip. It was the same as my first surgery and the recovery was supposed to be 3 months. But my bones healed quickly and I was walking again within 1 month.
After all of these surgeries, I was still pushing myself to work out every day, play basketball, and do everything I love.
I still struggle with some activities from time to time due to my left hip. Unfortunately because of the trauma in that leg, I’m not sure if I will even ever be 100% again. But I will try.
I’ve had to adapt the way I do things... the way I run, walk, jump. The doctors did tell me that it was possible that I’d never run again, and I’ve definitely proved them wrong as I still played basketball from grades 10-12 after the surgeries.
