Getting a New Knee After Africa Trip

I hope everything goes well for you, Jerry! So far, at 57, I’m still running on stock equipment. What an interesting decade I have ahead.

 

70 is the new 50!

 

Glad you got it scheduled! I had my knee scoped (repaired my miniscus) and the worst part was the physical terrorist afterwards. I never wanted to hit a girl but the spirit of slap was very near when she was hurting me!!

 

"Physical terrorist"? Is that autofill, or intentional?

I've never seen anyone refer to a physical therapist as a terrorist.

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I'm actually pretty happy that many future mobility problems can be solved with fairly simple hardware replacements....but, yeah.

Physical Terrorists actually sums it up quite nicely.
I'm putting that one in the back pocket for later use.....

 

Hi Jerry sounds like you know the drill. Good luck.

I had both my knees done I was bow legged and wore out both inside joints so both of mine were only uni-compartmental so no full knee. Easier rehab I think. I will never understand people who get both total knees done at the same time because there afraid they wont get the second one done which is really stupid. That's not home care your in rehab for quite a while. Must be horrible.

My knee's are going on 10 years old they feel perfect but its a little weird to kneel on them they feel very odd so I don't kneel anymore unless I have a good cushion. I take very good care of them.

Whenever I see a guy in his 40s 50s kneeling on concrete or a hard surface I always think you'll be sorry that just hammers the joint.
cartilage and your out of warranty.

 

Elderly neighbor lady on my street who had back surgery and then complained all the time during home rehab how the PT was making her do all these exercises that are very painful and she wouldn't do it. She said I'm not taking pain pills! She told the PT she cant do it wont do it.
Good luck there lol.

Year later now I see her trying to walk down the street in a walker completely bent over trying to walk.

My knee guy is really cool but told me pre surgery if you don't do all your therapy to the T you will right back on my table and you wont like the outcome!

He's got some horror stories. Its easy just take your pain pills right?

 

YES so scared of the pain. Afraid to take pain pills. Screw that take your pills.
It’s not that bad it’s mostly uncomfortable for a while.

What’s the most painful thing is the first time after surgery going to the bathroom lol…..omg that is brutal.

They give you Dulcolax before the surgery now. If they don’t do that i highly recommend it.
And then everyday post surgery take Benifiber every day as the pain pills really stop you up too. Nothing moves around like it used to at our age.

Good luck my friend your a gamer you’ll do fine!

 

Sorry if I may have sounded anti-PT....I'm all for it! Just remember when the knee heals it wants to stiffen up but you have to keep moving the knee and break the stuff the body is trying to join together in the healing process and I remember a few SNAPS in there as it was moving around. (Didn't hurt all that much.) The pain was similar to what you feel playing basketball and the ball jams into a finger and the finger joint throbs for a few days. They gave me Vicodin for the pain but I've read too many horror stories about folks getting addicted so only took one when the pain was over an 8....didn't really take the pain away but made me happy so I didn't care...strange drug for sure!

 

"..stunned that I'm going to let someone use an air powered oscillating saw.."

Don't think about that part. Think about how much sympathy will get showered on you. Later, about much improved biomechanics.

Or mechanics, really polyethylene and cobalt steel.

Lay off those slasher videos.

 

I'm hearing that some hospital resources are spread thin lately. I hope they're able to hold the schedule for you. I really wouldn't want to hit bonus delays with a locked up knee.

 

Glad to hear it for both our sakes. I'm due to be in Tampa early next month for work, and I'm kind of dreading it to be honest.

 

...and that's truthfully what I'm most worried about. Just an ordinary traffic accident or workplace injury occurring when it may be difficult to get emergency services or medical care.

I'm not immune to the media reports but hey, that's my industry. I have a pretty good idea of the space between reality and what comes out of the idiotbox.

Back to knees. What do they give you for dealing with security checkpoints and magnetometers? I assume there's a standard way to notify the screeners, just never paid attention to that myself.