MS,

Best of luck to you. Going cold Turkey pre-surgery is really difficult. BTDT last May with my second spine operation (3-level lumbar laminectomy). Gawwdd!!!

But I'd rather repeat my two spine surgeries over again...together... than face a double knee replacement. Fortunately, the knees are the only joints in my lower half that are in excellent condition.
A client was in the office yesterday who had a double knee replacement in August. He said he grew two inches and put on 14 lbs overnight.
His recovery seemed to be slow by his movement.
Hope you recover quickly & fully. Remember, you only get one chance to heal properly.

To be correct it's a knee action suspension��
No one has checked my height. They keep asking" how tall are you?" And I respond, ' don't know. I was 6-1 then I became 5-10. They still haven' checked.

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

Yeah was it perhaps 6 foot one inch in the 1970s with them shoes?

(Glad to hear it all went OK for you)

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

Mobility is improving. Pain is still pretty high whenever I move or exercise.
As many will tell you days 2 and 3 are probably the worst pain wise.

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

Sit tight, you will improve!

Hang in there friend!

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Paul S.

2001 E430, Bourdeaux Red, Oyster interior.
79,200 miles.

1973 280SE 4.5, 170,000 miles. 568 Signal Red, Black MB Tex. "The Red Baron".

Time for an update, and express great appreciation for my nurse practitioner.
First, the update.....as everyone predicted, the knees,are getting better. All that PT, and especially the stretching is making a,real difference. The knees still ache, but not as soon after the PT, and not as intensely. Real progress!!!

Secondly, I want to thank a member of the surgical team. The procedure for refilling my Oxycodone, once I was home, was for me to call the office this past Tuesday with a count of the remaining pills. I did this. The office "person" was to have someone write a refill Rx and put it in the mail. I live about 50 miles from the hospital, so this was to save me a trip. The written Rx did not arrive Thursday as planned. When it was not in today's mail, I went into panic mode. I am down to under 10 pills and there is bad weather in the forecast- ice and snow. As this is a schedule medication, the Rx can not be phoned, or faxed; the actual blue paper was required.
The first suggestion from the hospital was that I drive/ ride to the hospital and pick up a new Rx. It was already the start of the afternoon rush, and the stamina of both my driver and me was gone.. We had been out of the house since 11 am--the longest I had been out of the house previous to this was about 2 hours--and at that I was spent. Mary Ann, the nurse on the phone remained calm, asked for permission to work on a solution and then call me back.. She called back in 5 minutes with a proposal--- a nurse would leave the hospital and deliver a fresh Rx to the doctor's office. ( would you believe there was no one at the doctor's office who could write an Rx?!) The doctor's office is much closer to me and with much less traffic than the hospital.
There was only a narrow window of time to hit the Dr's office before closing. But it all worked out. I got the Rx, found a pharmacy with enough stock to fill the Rx, and then home. Ji Lee is not only the PA who saw me on the last visit prior to the surgery, she also left the hospital early today to delivery that much-needed piece of paper. Her leaving early also left the nursing staff left-handed for an hour or so.
In the age of CYA and everyone seeming to be looking for any excuse not to do the right thing, I am very appreciative not only of her efforts, but of the hospital allowing it.

Great appreciation from me for the Medstar Union Memorial hospital of Baltimore. MD, and everyone involved

( I proofread this before posting, and it looked alright, I hope nothing got changed, and that it is understandable)

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

Glad to hear things are coming along well, MS!

Filling the Rx electronically wasn't an option?

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

You beat me to the edit. I was editing my post to explain that. Oxy Codone is a "schedule" medication, and cannot be transmitted electronically. You'd think that everything could be done electronically, but not this.

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

Glad to hear the surgery and recovery is going well.

Keep up the good work.

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Paul S.

2001 E430, Bourdeaux Red, Oyster interior.
79,200 miles.

1973 280SE 4.5, 170,000 miles. 568 Signal Red, Black MB Tex. "The Red Baron".

Gotcha. Makes sense I suppose.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)