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Calm as the horizon, lying flat on his stretcher with his stolid wife and 50-year-old son in chairs beside him, Nick was down. About an hour earlier he had bent over to put on his socks and his leg had collapsed. So his wife and son dragged him to the car, and here he was in my hospital...
Five weeks ago, the stocky old Greek, whose exuberant presence now filled his curtained-off corner of the ER, had undergone a "new old" hip replacement. Nick's artificial hip had a metal-on-metal bearing (basically a large metal ball in a metal cup) - a remake of an old design, one that doctors were using 40 years ago. In the 1970s, the metal-on-metal construction was abandoned by orthopedists worldwide because it wasn't very stable and failed to relieve pain as reliably as the current metal-on-plastic standard, a metal stem and ball in a plastic...
Well, here was one significant counterclaim lying on the stretcher today. Nick's shortened, turned-in leg announced the problem even before I saw his x-ray. His new old hip was dislocated...
...Nick was about as nice as an old man with a dislocated hip can be. Despite what is typically an extremely painful problem, he was pleasant, talkative and charming. His interests lay in the history of his native Sparta and in the making, extolling and drinking of large amounts of the well-known (and in my limited experience, best-avoided) pine-resin-laced traditional Greek wine retsina. Trained by decades of exposure to the resinous brew, Nick's brain and liver now presented us with an unusual difficulty: they had become so good at detoxifying his system that...
...pretty long,” sophomore Danny Mayer said. “If you hit it in the wrong spots, you’d be hitting long irons into the green.” Mayer finished tied for 87th with a final score of 22-over, while sophomore Nick Moseley and captain Michael Shore finished tied for 89th and tied for 91st, respectively. A 62-over performance over three rounds certainly seemed to indicate that the Crimson buried itself under an avalanche of strokes. However, even if every player is only a few strokes off of his game, those missteps...