Quote Originally Posted by Daisy and Delilah
It seems my, now retired, doctor botched it up. My second opinion doctor showed me the deterioration of his work on the x-rays I had to bring with me.

Oh dear, this brings back horrible memories for me!

Many years ago my right hip replacement failed (again) and my doctor wanted to revise it, ok no problem, so I thought, here we go again.

I checked into the hospital on Thanksgiving eve with surgery scheduled for the very next am. I went in to get my right hip revised (get new parts).

After surgery the next morning I woke up and felt a huge pad covering my right hip like normally after surgery, then for some reason I felt the same pad covering my left hip!! huh?? What the.....

My father was there and when I asked him about the left hip he told me that they opened the WRONG hip first!!!!!!

After searching and searching for an attorney who would take my case - this was in the early or mid 1980's before anyone sued a doctor.

We settled with his insurance company because the attorney said we wouldn't win a case against a doctor .

But what we did find out was my doctor apparently was an alicholoic and was apparently drunk during my surgery!!!! Not only did he open the wrong side, but he also put my revised hip in wrong!!! Yes, I needed another surgery 9 months later because my hip would just come out of its socket whenever. (talk about fun.......NOT!)

I'm not trying to scare you, but please know who your doctor is and all about them!!!!

Interview him/her because they will be working for you and on you.

My lesson was learned not only the hard way, but too many surgeries later too!


Good luck with your surgery.