Heading for a 4th

Updates to my recent medical follow ups and the continuation of my Pelvis saga…

Christine Penn
8 min readApr 22, 2023

Last visit with the Orthopedic Team

Back on March 28th, I had my follow up for my plate removal surgery. During the visit, they took a final x-ray/image of my pelvis.

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Post plate removal was quite the experience. The incision site and muscles they cut through to remove the plate was much more painful than expected. (I think the pain meds they had me on when they put it in did a much better job of masking that, but they were not offered for the removal.) Also with the removal, it felt as if some flexibility returned to my pelvis. Along with that came along some new pains in the joints and surrounding ligaments. And you could feel it doing even the simplest of things; like just walking around. The good thing was that it was recovering fairly quickly. Very sore at first, but definitely becoming better with time. My thought was this was because the plate kept them from being able to flex for around the last year or so. Now that they were able to move around again; they simply needed some time to adjust.

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Christine Penn

Trans woman, parent, cyclist, software engineer, author, chef, and many other things.