While discussing the prospect of a total hip replacement with a patient this month, I thought that it would be useful to detail a personal account of someone who had undergone the very same thing including how we helped and managed them along the way. Read on for Paula's story, first in my words, and then in hers. "When I first met Paula in November 2011, it was the beginning of a journey together. As a fit and active woman, who looked at least a decade younger than her date