Loading ...Do you know any taxi drivers in my neck of the woods who do hip replacement surgery?? I’m getting desperate!! LOL!!! Yes, I can go to the US and get it done for about $55000 but since I have paid into this system for the past 40 years it’s more the principle of the thing. The system owes me and they’re gonna have their feet in the fire until they yell uncle and do the right thing. I have received a huge awakening trying to get some priority placement for this surgery. There is a backlog of many thousands waiting for the same operation across the province and that backlog increases daily. It’s not the surgeons fault. They want to do more surgeries. It’s the Province who is restricting each surgeon to 2 operations per week in order for the province to save a few bucks. I of course am most interested in getting my own hip replacement and getting back to normal living, but with my own Orthopedic Surgeon having a current backlog of well over 400 awaiting the same surgery, if they are in as much pain and suffering as I’m in, and he says they are, I hesitate to push to the front of the line. But that’s what I’m trying to do. I still full time farm, and believe me when I say it is impossible to be a one legged farmer, so I gotta pull every string I can, think of myself first for a change, and get some priority surgery. Otherwise not only my own health continue to deteriorate but my wife, who works full time and is trying to fill in for me, will begin wearing down too, and same with the kids still at home and in HS at the top of their academic classes as well as part time jobs, Soccer, dance and personal activities. I just can’t keep asking them for more help as they have their whole lives in front of them, and they have to deal with this world long after I am gone. Anyway, it’s a frustration, but being the “squeaky wheel” may be starting to pay off as more and more people in power are being made aware of the problem!! They may decide to do the surgery just to shut me up. LOL!!! Silverngold
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