Hip surgery can be fun ... medical tourism in Gent

[Tim Bratten]

I was surprised how much fun I had rehabilitating from surgery in Gent, Belgium. Here are some photos

Dr. De Smet's hip patients and spouses downtown Gent five days after surgery:



Gent is pretty at night:



Like Disneyland, only real:



My sister and my wife prepare to storm the castle eight days after surgery:



Working the crutch eight days after surgery:



After several hundred stairs, views of downtown Gent



Tim and the swedes (two new surface hippys) study the menu



Some German friends came to visit:



Statue points to England in downtown Gent:



In Belgium they worship beer:

[mslendzion]

Great pictures, thanks for sharing.

[hernanu]

Looks like fun, Tim - great that you had a good result and fun. I'm adding Gent to my list of places to visit.

[johnd_emd]

Okay, it's truth or dare time.  Did you drink and beer while you were there on those pain meds?

[Tim Bratten]

Okay, it's truth or dare time.  Did you drink and beer while you were there on those pain meds?

What's the dare?

In all truthfulness my hip hurt real bad for a few hours after the surgery and I kept myself pretty busy pushing the morphine button for awhile. That night I pushed the button a couple of more times and after that I never used any more pain meds at all (except some mild anti-inflammatory tablets they gave us). I have a whole drawer full of these effervescent codeine tablets that I brought home, unused, from Gent. 

On the other hand, before the revision (including one very long, painful week before I underwent the botched resurfacing) there were a few times when the pain went up to 11. But then you didn't ask about that ....