Hospital -- Take 2

A nice early start of 4.30am in order to get to the hospital and join in near the front of the queue...or so i thought...
The wait in the queue was a 2.5h one, and i gratefully received my file from the admissions window, and was then sent upstairs for my appointment with one of the orthopaedic specialists.
It wasn't a very long wait and i was seen to.
The doc looked over my xrays which i had brought with me, and said that he needed to send me to get more recent xrays before he could make a proper diagnosis, but that looking at the xrays i had brought in, he was reasonably happy with what he saw.
So, off i went, back downstairs, to join the queue for the xrays.
Another hour later and i was sat outside the docs room once again waiting for my next appointment.
In i went and he looked at the new xrays.
A broken drill bit inside my hip, which is apparently quite a common occurrence.
A broken titanium screw in my hip, which is apparently near impossible! The doc even requested he could keep the xray to show his peers cos they didn't believe him when he told them!
He was very happy with the job on my femur. He said it was a complicated operation, and was well executed.
He was happy with my hip, even though it did contain some broken equipment in it.
And the tibia was a decent enough job too. The fibula which was not repaired, he said was common practice to be left as is, as it was not an important bone, and was frequently used if bone grafts were needed.
So, that just left my knee.
He said that i should visit a physio to see what my limitations were, and that he hoped that with physio alone, i would be able to get myself back to somewhere near my former self...
Then it was back downstairs for a 3h wait for my medication - vitamin A, loads of pain tablets, and a box of calcium based antacids to supplement my calcium intake.
Then it was the 2h drive back home again.
A successful day, and a good start on my road to recovery...