Todd and the Doctor

So we finally made it to the hip Dr after waiting forever after the MRI was done. It was odd though as for some reason Todd's hip apparently quit hurting about a week ago. Well anyway, we got to the doctor and he started looking at the MRI images. He said it didn't look nearly as bad as the other one had. There is a small piece that has broken off and is just moving around in there though. They are thinking that it has found itself a "happy place" and lodged itself there at the moment though and that's why the pain has gone mostly away now. So for the present time they are thinking no surgery! YAY!! If it starts hurting again then the piece has probably started moving again, at which time they will do one of two things 1) give him some sort of injection in his hip or 2) send him to a different doctor who does hip scopes. Apparently hip scopes are very uncommon but there are two doctors in the state that do them and they might be able to snag out the piece that way and smooth out a few other problems. Which may buy us alot more time before finally having to replace it. I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hoping that the thing just stays in its happy place for awhile and that we can go a winter or two without having him be off work. That would be sooooooooo nice. So anyhow, that was the doctors report. The boys are going elk hunting this weekend. So we are all holding our breathe to see how it goes and if it starts killing him again after being more active for awhile. Hopefully it goes fine and things continue to look optimistic for awhile. I am not calling to make an eye appointment until AFTER the hunt though. I am just pessimistic enough to think that something is going to go wrong.