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    Part gardening, part recovery post!

    Jo your garden is just lovely! And your grassy patch looks like velvet! What a lot of work you put into it! My husband would just love to have you here; he gets so annoyed with me because I don't help much with the planting. As he says -- I think of it and then he has to do it! But we live...
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    Knee Replacements Not Harmed by Most Sports

    I love this discussion because we talk all the time at the gym about new studies contradicting older studies and not knowing what to believe. Medically or about exercise techniques. It's true all the longer, bigger studies about knee replacements were done on older, more sedentary people. of...
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    Running with TKR's

    Bonnie -- it's great you're registered for the Houston Half. Now you have a timeline. Linda -- it's great to hear someone from someone else who's running and 10K's are a serious races. Fantastic! Zjrog --- set yourself a goal of the 5K in a reasonable number of months -- and walk/run it...
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    Running with TKR's

    Bonnie -- I tend to jump on and off this forum but I get emails updating me on threads I'm subcribed to... so I saw your posts when I caught up today. I can so sympathize with you about missing the 2nd marathon. My husband also had to miss a marathon he was registered for last fall (one he...
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    Crazy at 50: my story

    Zjrog -- it's great to read that you're jogging!!! You started much sooner than I did and I still find it difficult. But I think it's my terrible feet and aerobic state (or lack thereof) because the knee never hurts at bit.....Walking -even fast up hills -- just doesn't give you the breathing...
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    Crazy at 50: my story

    Darlene -- the Alabama tornadoes were (and are) just horrifying; we couldn't believe the pictures this AM and the huge death toll. I can't imagine working in an trauma center after something like that! I add to the others here in applauding your recovery and the way you "just do it". Your...
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    Knee pain after TKR two years ago

    Jackie-- interestingly -- my knee surgeon - Dr. Mark Hartzband in NJ - worked with Dr. Berger at Rush on the minimally invasive surgery techniques and also on the mix of pain medications which allowed me to recover quickly from my RTKR with virtually no real pain. Hartzband also designs (or did...
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    Running with TKR's

    For the runners among us (former and would-be-again and already trying) Dick Beardsley -- the former elite marathoner - is running the OKC Memorial Half Marathon (13.1 miles) this weekend in Oklahoma City. On TWO knee replacements - about a year (give or take) apart!!!!As members of this forum...
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    dental work, antibiotics and osteoporosis!

    Just to add my experience - my surgeon recommends taking antibiotics for life before any dental procedure including regular cleaning. Also any other invasive procedure. I guess colonoscopy qualifies. Basic generic Amoxicillin. 4 of them 1 hour before the procedure. So far they have not made me...
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    Can I run again if I have surgery either partial or full knee replacement?

    Wow wow wow Bonnie! Randy Rendon is just the person I was hoping to find and you found him!!! I haven't been here for awhile but I see your TKR date is March 28. I will be in Europe for 2 weeks (and on that date) but will try to catch you "on the other side" - the recovery forum - when I...
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    Can I run again if I have surgery either partial or full knee replacement?

    Bonnie you are so right about Dick Beardsley; he's great! And for me he's the guinea pig - so to speak - to see how far you can carry the running. I am like you. I finished 28 marathons including 13 NYC and 13 Bermuda. My husband still runs (we used to do it together) and qualified for 2...
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    I don't want to go to PT today!!!

    I guess like everything else in the medical world -- there's no agreement on post TKR medically either. There is always some study coming out which changes everything you've always heard. Maybe one thing works for the most athletically inclined among us --and slow and steady works better for...
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    4 Wks ~ Rowing Machine Workout

    Bottom line to all this --- we are all different but we have to find something that gets us going or the recovery isn't as good. Nor is the living afterward because exercise and a decent diet can take the place of a lot of pills!! And ultimately it's cheaper than the pills too:biggrin:
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    Airport Security

    My experience with the TSA has never been a good one since I got my TKR. I always tell them before going thru the scanner and I have never had anyone look at my card so now I don't bother. Truthfully anyone could carry a card so I don't blame them for that. I have not been through security...
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    4 Wks ~ Rowing Machine Workout

    Gardengirl -- I also find the rowing maching a great exercise. But I didn't discover it until I was in Prague for the summer about 6 months after my RTKR -- and the gym there had one. Not a water rower -- just a regular rowing maching but the exercises is the same. I found it great to work on...

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