vacation from PP
 

Well the time has finally arrived. Tomorrow,Monday,the 5th, I am set to have both knees replaced. No electronic devices allowed in the hospital, so I will not be posting for a while. I have been too busy with getting stuff done before the surgery to have posted much over the last weeks. In my brief survey of threads this morning,it's good to see that nothing changes. Same people, same arguments..
I hope to return after a week, or so.

Good luck with it.

We all hope your surgery is uneventful. Strange policy for no electronic devices in a hospital.

Godspeed in your recovery!

Good luck! do the therepy.;)

Best of luck with surgery, MS!

The consensus among friends and family who have had knee replacement over the past 5-6 years is that they wish they did it sooner. Just keep up with the PT! (Edit: I see Tom beat me to it. :) )

Good luck with the surgery!

We will need a youtube video with a spectacular NBA style jump shot to show the surgury a success

First thing my grandmother did when she had the same procedure 20 years ago. I think she also worked in a backflip

Hope it all goes as planned. Good luck to you.

Prayers for a fast recovery.

Good luck and best wishes.

Good luck! I hope you have a speedy recovery.

Good luck

Good luck MS, hope it goes smoothly and recovery is quick! A family member had his replaced and within a couple weeks was going up and down stairs like he was half his age whereas he could barely walk prior -- seems like a pretty big life changer.

Thanks for the kind wishes.
One of the requirements was that I discontinue the Melaxacam that I was taking to relieve the pain in the knees for 2 weeks prior to surgery.
One thing for sure, the Rx was doing quite a bit of good.
No other Nsaids allowed, either, so its alcohol in various forms. It kills the pain, and is quickly out of the system.

To a speedy recovery and stick with your PT.

I'm sure all will go well. I've known several people who've had both knees replaced, and all were better than new after rehabilitation.

Best of luck....

No electronics??? Surgery by candle light?? Where is this Amish hospital :P

But seriously, good luck with it !

Thats what I was thinking. My mother in law had a hip replaced and had her phone and laptop nearby at all times.

Hospital discourages electronics devices as they hire untrustworthy help--or that seems to be the message. I should be in the hospital only a few days. I need to show that I can climb stairs, get into the passenger seat of a car ( actually have a section of a car in the PT room), get on and off the toilet, and into and out of the bathtub.
You are correct in that PT is the key--at least as far as what i can control. adhesions and internal bleeding are things that may have to be dealt with, but nothing I can control.

Good luck.

Best of luck. Fairly common operation these days for many. I have a knee I try not to stress too much as it kicks up. Trying to keep it till the end.

Result of many bangs to it over the years. Cannot lift and carry 40 pounds though without it announcing it is unhappy for a day or so after words. So far generally the same for the last fifteen years.

Speedy recovery and a little break from electronics will do the soul good.

Best of luck with it MS

How did it go?

Visiting nurse just left
31 staples left and 33 in the right

so far so good!

I'm just coming to this thread; glad to see you're back with civilization. ;)

I hope all went by the textbook on the surgeries and that your recovery is as complete and pain-free as possible. (I've got at least one I'm going to have to deal with -- assuming I live long enough. I messed it up when I was 17, but the damage played a key role in saving my life, so the periodic pain and limitations are reminders that I shouldn't be here at all.)

Anyway, I digress: the point is that I hope you are soon back to doing your regular activities, but enjoying them more with less pain and restriction, and picking up some old ones you didn't do any longer because of the limitations.

Best of luck in 2015!

That's no good, your balance will be off and you'll be going in circles!

Well they always say get an alignment done after suspension work! Glad to hear your new ball joints went in well!...er, knees. Hope for continued fast recovery!


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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.:eek::eek:
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.

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

(Glad to hear it all went OK for you)

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.

Sit tight, you will improve!

Hang in there friend!

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)

Glad to hear things are coming along well, MS!

Filling the Rx electronically wasn't an option?

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.

Glad to hear the surgery and recovery is going well.

Keep up the good work.

Gotcha. Makes sense I suppose.