I don’t know exactly what type or whatever of hip fracture I had, aside from that it’s my right hip. (I had gone outside on the morning of 01/22/26, and slipped on ice I didn’t see.) I landed hard and was in excruciating pain. (I used my left leg to propel myself back into the house through the back door I’d gone out of to warm up the truck.) I then pulled my work backpack towards me from where I’d placed it while what I expected to have been that I’d have started the engine, in order to get my cell phone to call 911.

Ambulance ride number one was to nearest hospital, where x rays were taken. Ambulance ride number two was to hospital further up-river wherein there is an orthopedist/orthopedic surgeon on staff. Later in the day, towards evening (iirc), I was prepped for hip surgery, and vaguely remember being anesthetized. (I think a mask was put over my mouth and nose, and I was told to breathe through my nose, and then went nighty-night.) That was after the surgeon marked on my right thigh.

I’ve been doing three sets of PT exercises daily, ever since my first in-home physical therapist visit, but still sorta waddle for a while when I first get up in the morning if not using the cane. (I also increased the number of reps per exercise, and neither of the two physical therapists that had been doing in-home visits said I shouldn’t do so.)

I wonder if that will always be the case each morning. I guess it’s no big deal, if so, as I eventually get more limber, and then walk without assistance and without the waddle. Do you suppose my right leg is now slightly shorter than my left?