Cabbages and kings

The fall has been spent wearing away the last few centimeters of cartilage around my right hip joint, so the time has come to call for replacements. I have never been a fan of artificiality, even when it comes with “triple-stranded polymer plastic” which I am told will make up the lining of my new socket. (I will leave it to you to google that…I have, and little light was shed.) But I had reached the point where additional anti-inflammatories weren’t possible so I’ve opted for total hip replacement.

I will be off-line for several days starting tomorrow (this certainly won’t be missed, given the pace of postings to this blog) but I thought a holiday shout-out to my peeps was in order. God rest ye merry, gentlepersons!