This week I have seen my hospitalist and my surgeon, had my blood drawn, changed my medications and started thinking very seriously about this upcoming event.
People are starting to ask me about the surgery because they know it is coming up soon. I am trying to provide enough info so that people will think to visit or get in touch but not the gory details.
I am quite enthusiastic about the outcome, to have a fully functioning knee. We took our bikes to our favorite biking place in Wisconsin last week and I (we) were confined to riding on the flat lands. The hill climbing was just too much strain on the knee and therefore too much pain and too much time icing afterward.
I told the doc this week that I wanted to be able to bicycle up hills and walk around for an hour or more. He said I could do all that and more. He advised not to jump out of airplanes and I stated that I was not planning to run again. I didn't really have any plans to jump out of an airplane and I never enjoyed running enough to continue that punishment. Biking is something that I love to do and want to do more of with a healthy knee.
I will be getting the Zimmer women's knee installed in my left leg replacing my arthritic knee joint that has no cartilage remaining on the lateral side. The bone grinding against bone is not only noisy but painful and really annoying.
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Were you jumping out of airplanes before this happened? If not, it doesn't sound like this is cutting you off from anything really important to you.
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