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| Innocent two days after surgery | Innocent months after surgery |
Bilateral Hip Replacement
Avascular Necrosis. A condition that causes the death of your bone tissue due to the lack of blood supply. Eventually, this leads to tiny cracks in the bone and if gone untreated it causes the bone to collapse.
Imagine you’re 28 years old. You’ve just gotten married, enjoying your job with a travel company, meeting people from around the world and sharing your country and customs with them. You find out you are going to be a father for the first time and life seems to be on the right path.
Then your mobility lessens, your hips begin to stiffen, and your world begins to shrink. Lifting luggage into the truck at work is no longer possible, being able to walk in your own home becomes limited. Then, just as your son is born, you no longer can stand on your own. Both hips are affected. Now, at age 30, things are no longer certain.
This was Innocent’s life. He couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, everything seemed dark. But his family and doctors rallied around him and told him about an opportunity to receive joint replacement surgery from Operation Walk.
It was a leap of faith. To restore his mobility, he would need both hips replaced and at the same time. It seemed he would have to learn to walk all over again. But Innocent took that leap. With his mother, father, and brother by his side, he had the surgery and went through the recovery period.
We’re excited to share his father’s note sent to our coordinator, Ava Baldwin, and the footage of him now. We’re so happy for Innocent and his family. One dream he shared with us was he longed to be able to play soccer with his son Nathan. Now that dream will come true.
“Hello Ava.
Praise the Lord. I got your message and feel joy all over my body. Innocent is doing fine with his baby and his wife as you can see in the clips. Please pass those clips to the donors and give them our appreciation for what they did for my son. He was crippled but now he can walk again, by himself, unaided.”