Aug 30, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min · 14 segments
Jack was five years old when he was diagnosed with Perthes disease - a rare condition that stops blood flow to the hip joint. By eighteen, his hips had essentially given up on him. He was told he'd…
Jack BrennanGuestTom DickinsonHost
Like, I guess the reason why I was struggling with it so much was because I knew that a solution existed.
It wasn't like I was told, like how many people are unfortunately in positions where-
I, I just, I tried to accept it for so many years that after seeing so many specialists who kept turning me down, I said to myself, "You know, I understand it, and not only do I understand it, but I respect the opinion of the best specialists in, in the country, really." But at a certain point, I thought, "Well, how, how bad does my struggle have to get before we draw the line?"
And it had gotten really bad, and especially mentally, I just stopped being able to keep going.
And I'm really glad that I put the foot down when I did and said, "You know, I'm gonna go to as many doctors as I have to until I find someone who'll do it," because while maybe on paper it isn't ideal to do a double hip replacement in someone's 20s, at what point does it become too much? And I was at that point, and I'm very lucky that the specialist who ended up doing my surgery understood that.
I think he actually- I visited him recently just for a checkup, and we were, we were talking about it, and he said that w- he was actually quite upset after seeing me.
Like, I guess the reason why I was struggling with it so much was because I knew that a solution existed.
It wasn't like I was told, like how many people are unfortunately in positions where-
I, I just, I tried to accept it for so many years that after seeing so many specialists who kept turning me down, I said to myself, "You know, I understand it, and not only do I understand it, but I respect the opinion of the best specialists in, in the country, really." But at a certain point, I thought, "Well, how, how bad does my struggle have to get before we draw the line?"
And it had gotten really bad, and especially mentally, I just stopped being able to keep going.
And I'm really glad that I put the foot down when I did and said, "You know, I'm gonna go to as many doctors as I have to until I find someone who'll do it," because while maybe on paper it isn't ideal to do a double hip replacement in someone's 20s, at what point does it become too much? And I was at that point, and I'm very lucky that the specialist who ended up doing my surgery understood that.
I think he actually- I visited him recently just for a checkup, and we were, we were talking about it, and he said that w- he was actually quite upset after seeing me.
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