After my Bionic Hip had been inserted
Two years ago last December I finished a meeting with the BBC in White City and crossed the road to catch up with my wife and her mother who I had dangerously left in Westfield Shopping “city”. Wandering about, waiting for them to finish my left hip locked up and became particularly painful. To cut a long story short I felt the need to consult an expert and within a month I had my worn out hip re-surfaced with a metal on metal joint replacing the ball and cup I had worn out pulling heavy sledges over rough terrain and for too much of my life. My consultant, Mr Rakesh Kucheria, called it traumatic osteoarthritis.
He was brilliant and the result, absolutely astonishing. People I meet have no idea that I’m partly bionic – for that matter, I forget, myself!
- Jim
Location:Home in Windsor
