Beth Saranglao doesn’t stay in any one place for very long. The 46 year-old elementary school computer lab manager and summertime pool manager doesn’t even have a telephone line in her house any more. “Just my cell phone. You know how it is these days,” she explains, detailing a life of recreational running, bicycling, swimming, tennis, inline skating – all in addition to the usual time commitments of a family, including a son on a traveling baseball team.
Yet after running 4 to 5 miles every morning for 20 years or so, Saranglao started feeling a sharp pain in her hip joint. That was two years ago, and keeping the pain in check required 18 ibuprofens every day.
Fellowship trained surgeon, John Hoffman, M.D., Orthopaedic Specialists, saw that the damage to her hip’s cartilage was serious. Saranglao had hoped that re-surfacing her hip joint would work, but Dr. Hoffman’s examinations revealed that re-surfacing wasn’t an option. Instead, Saranglao had a total hip replacement in December 2007. “I’d love to set off an airport metal detector with all the metal in my hip,” Saranglao jokes, “but with my son in baseball, I never get to travel anywhere fun.”
Saranglao’s surgery was at 4:00 p.m., and she was home 17 hours later, at 9:00 in the morning. “I loved it,” Saranglao says of the Mississippi Valley Surgery Center. “I didn’t have to check in. I was up and walking and glad to be home.”
Saranglao has returned to a life every bit as active as the one before surgery. “I shouldn’t have waited so long,” she says. She bicycles every morning (during bad weather it’s indoors, on a trainer), and she’s back to running most days on the treadmill. “I’d do it again. I’m still flexible – I can do cheerleader splits!”
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