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The follow-up that became the pre-op appointment

This piece needs to go backwards Monday came and just like any Monday I was dreading the day. Nonetheless this was the hand I was dealt. We arrived at the clinic. Waited our turn. Soon we were in our room to wait some more. My poor stomach was in knots. My best recollection of the visit is that Jesse was an unhappy as us with what we were seeing on the CT scan.  In fact he looked mad. As he suspected the top part of my hip (femoral head and neck) was anteriorly rotated so the bone fragments indeed were not aligned. There was over 1.5cm of difference in them, and their best guess was maybe I had 20% bone to bone contact. Without more bone touching healing would be delayed tremendously and might not ever occur.  In that case, I might not ever walk again. In order for me to make the most well informed decision J sent Dr. S in to talk to me. I was truly on the fence about what to do until Dr. S came in. I’ve known of Dr. S for a really long time, I’ve seen him put some...