Spare Parts

Adventures in Hip Replacement Part 2

Surgery and Recovery

Veronika Kaufmann
ILLUMINATION
Published in
4 min readMar 25, 2023

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Orthopedic Hospital Speissing, Vienna, and my leg right after my second hip replacement surgery

Bionic

My first titanium joint — left hip replacement — was on February 20th, 2020, just days before the lights were shut off around the world (Pandemic, lockdown, remember?) So, I got lucky. The recovery from walking with crutches for two weeks after surgery to biking, swimming and, finally…

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