[GH85Carrera]

When I had my hip replacement I put it off as long as I could stand the pain.

During the surgery they basically cut your leg off. My ball socket has zero cartilage left, and the doctor said it was just bone rubbing on bone with just blood as a lubricant. He said it had to hurt, and I knew that. Anyway with the slow wearing away of the cartilage that leg had become shorter, but I never noticed and my brain compensated as that side got slowly shorter.

After he rebuilt my joint, he made that side 1/4 inch taller than ideal, so suddenly it was taller than the other side, and my brain just knew I was suddenly taller on my former short side. It took several months to heal and several more months to learn to walk properly with new height on that side.

Overall the dumbest thing I have done in my life was put off the hip replacement. The recovery pain was minimal compared to the former pain of just walking.

In the end, I came out 1/2 inch taller than before the hip replacement, if I apply most of my weight to that side. So pretty much back to my younger height.