Welcome to the Woodlands. That's an 80 acre,
organic USDA certified organic farm here in Boyne City.
So we've got a lot of ground to cover and being able to move and get to the
different places on the farm is really important and doing it on my own.
It's constant pain. You never, you're never comfortable. You can't sit,
you can't stand, you can't lay down, you can't sleep,
you can't do anything. It's constant constant pain.
The pain was gone, but the discomfort was there,
and the mobility was, was not restored. With Dr.
Davis in the left hip and the Henry Ford Health System,
their whole philosophy was to
not only get the pain to go away, but to have your mobility back.
Arthritis is pretty simple. I use car analogies around here, so the tires bald,
but the rim is still fine. So essentially it's becoming a tire change.
There's no padding left in the joint.
So we talked about replacing the ball and socket, putting metal in between,
and plastic serves as that padding.
It's a two hour surgery under spinal anesthesia.
So patients are just taking a nap, there's no breathing tube. And within hours,
once they get their feeling back, they're up walking,
doing stairs with a therapist and going home. Which is unique,
particularly people like Glenn that come from four hours away.
We've been able to successfully get people home up north,
even the same day if that's their preference.
I specifically went to Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital
because it was close to where my sister lived and my sister had surgery there
and recommended it. And I assumed after the surgery,
I would be going to her house to stay and recuperate.
But I found out afterwards that it wasn't necessary to go to her house to
recover that I could come home immediately.
We always get questions as "how do you do this from up North?" We give patients
the option to either go home the same day or stay overnight.
We have a convenient hotel down the road that some patients have stayed
overnight the night before.
It's just the ability to arrange that within many hours of a drive is,
is great benefit to our patients.
My recovery was absolutely phenomenal.
I'm used to walking the grounds usually twice a day with my, my dog.
And there were about three days that we didn't do my rounds.
And there's a lot to be said for that.
What Mako allows us to do is create a 3d model of that patient's unique anatomy,
and develop a customized plan.
So I know exactly what size implants fit their bone on a computer,
position exactly where I want them to fit within that model.
Then during surgery rely on that robotic arm to reproduce this plan within a
fraction of a millimeter error.
I've had quite a few patients literally not take a pain pill afterwards.
So it's remarkable.
A lot of patients walk out of the hospital hours later in less pain than they
were walking in.
I'm sure Dr.
Davis and his staff understand what the effects of his specialty have on
people,
but I don't know if he knows to the extreme how much it really can
change somebody's life. Especially mine.
My goal is really to give him that second lease on life.
I don't think we're saving lives by any means,
but we're certainly saving lifestyles. And, you know,
when I train our sports colleagues who look at replacement as the end of the
line, we look at it as a new beginning.
The hip surgery,
it gives me back a sense of completeness
and connection.
Connection to my farm and connection to other people.
And even this whole experience being connected to Dr.
Davis and his staff and the people at Henry Ford Health System.
They definitely put me first and my healthcare first.