Rob Keeble
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Anyone here had knee replacement surgery and care to discuss this with me privately?
I am getting out of denial mode and into action mode and would like to talk to people that have been through it.
Not going to link to it but you tube has some incredible videos showing the detailed surgical process in real time.
Looks way too much like you need woodworking skills to do this job. Think i will be asking the doc if he does things with his hands for a hobby.
They use all the tools we do including caulking gun and glue.
My biggest fear is at 20 when i had a motorcycle accident one of the results was a plate and screws put in on my left leg tibia and for reasons i do not know now (dont have the records etc) it was rejected by my body ended escalated to bone sepsis and nearly lost my leg.
Now i have a better grasp of what they do in the knee replacement my concern is what happens if body rejects knee parts. There is no going backwards like there was with the plate. They took plate out and bones healed up over time with correct treatment.
In the Knee replacement they cut away bone in three locations.
Been putting this off because of my age but a couple of weeks ago at my Lions meeting, a 70+ guy sitting next to me at the dinner table told me he had just complete 18 holes of golf that day. It hit me right between the head that statement as i could not get through the walking for more than one with what is going on in my right knee.
Docs have said issue is have it done too young and it will need replacing which would mean in my 70's and they said the replacements don't work out that well. But by the same token i could die of cancer in a years time who knows so whats the point of holding out.
Trouble i am having, is given the way our system works, the specialist docs give you 5 minutes at a time. Hardly enough to even discuss concerns and get a grip on the whole thing. So i am having to educate myself. Its understandable when you discover they only get just over $1000 to do the whole job. Changing two ball joints on my Jeep Commander at a dealer here cost $1300 whats that say one can expect. Now that don't have to cover the theater and parts but still for labor that seems pretty light to me for what we talking about.
Getting old sucks and I am paying full value for my sins as a youngster.
I am getting out of denial mode and into action mode and would like to talk to people that have been through it.
Not going to link to it but you tube has some incredible videos showing the detailed surgical process in real time.
Looks way too much like you need woodworking skills to do this job. Think i will be asking the doc if he does things with his hands for a hobby.
They use all the tools we do including caulking gun and glue.
My biggest fear is at 20 when i had a motorcycle accident one of the results was a plate and screws put in on my left leg tibia and for reasons i do not know now (dont have the records etc) it was rejected by my body ended escalated to bone sepsis and nearly lost my leg.
Now i have a better grasp of what they do in the knee replacement my concern is what happens if body rejects knee parts. There is no going backwards like there was with the plate. They took plate out and bones healed up over time with correct treatment.
In the Knee replacement they cut away bone in three locations.
Been putting this off because of my age but a couple of weeks ago at my Lions meeting, a 70+ guy sitting next to me at the dinner table told me he had just complete 18 holes of golf that day. It hit me right between the head that statement as i could not get through the walking for more than one with what is going on in my right knee.
Docs have said issue is have it done too young and it will need replacing which would mean in my 70's and they said the replacements don't work out that well. But by the same token i could die of cancer in a years time who knows so whats the point of holding out.
Trouble i am having, is given the way our system works, the specialist docs give you 5 minutes at a time. Hardly enough to even discuss concerns and get a grip on the whole thing. So i am having to educate myself. Its understandable when you discover they only get just over $1000 to do the whole job. Changing two ball joints on my Jeep Commander at a dealer here cost $1300 whats that say one can expect. Now that don't have to cover the theater and parts but still for labor that seems pretty light to me for what we talking about.
Getting old sucks and I am paying full value for my sins as a youngster.