My surgery is May 10th at Vanderbilt in Nashville! I have 22 days until I have my TKR on my right knee. I have put this off for decades for one reason or another. No help and couldn't afford it were the two top reasons early on. Now my kids are grown, I have a new marriage and he is the best helper in the world, plus my insurance offers a bundle deal where joint replacement is ZERO out of pocket. SO....22 days it is. Both of my knees are bone on bone and my left knee is actually the worst, but my right knee is far more symptomatic. I'm scared. I'm worried. I don't like pain, but then does anyone? It seems that for every two good stories I hear, I hear 25 horrible ones. But we tend to be more vocal about the bad than the good. I've read and read and watched videos to prepare for this. In the past 1.5 years I have lost almost 90lbs. That has to go in my favor. I am a 62-year-old special education teacher that loves to garden and crochet. We have two beautiful grandsons, and I am fairly active.... less so over the years because of my knees. I am ready to dance in the kitchen again!
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