Good luck to you, Mary. Please let us know the "end" results. (There's that joke you were looking for!)

Mine has hurt since it was installed, and I have always felt it poking through. I kept complaining to the doctor, and I kept getting a run-around. Finally, I saw a different neorosurgeon, who said he would have never selected that location, since I don't have a lot of space, or padding, there. The insurance wants to wait until the battery needs replacing, when it will have to be looked at anyway.

Hope it all works out for you.

Mike

Hey Mary!
I've had a "bionic butt" for years now, and it works out just fine. I couldn't imagine having it anywhere else. The only thing you have to careful of is not losing too much weight because then it can get pokey. And honestly, the recovery time for this procedure is just a couple of weeks. You won't even remember you had the surgery by September! I just had a new one put in in January. Just make sure that they put it far enough away from your hip bone (illiac crest) so that it can't migrate toward it and bump it. Not fun! Extra revision surgeries! Good luck! And by the way, the new batteries these days are like, 1/3 the size of the older ones. Yipee!
Linnie