OK folks, here is my update @ one year out.
Lets start by saying that I am a fairly active person (not like I was 20 years ago but still keep busy). After a whirlwind tour of Italy this summer where we walked and walked, I came home and got back into the routine of living. I volunteer work @ Habitat for Humanity and have taken the job of site supervisor, working 15 - 20 hours a week on a construction site. We are building two houses at the moment and I try to maintain a supervisory roll but just last week I found myself climbing in the roof rafters to get tarps over them because we were expecting snow. Up and down ladders is no problem but by the end of a 6 hour day my knees are tired. Also took a temp job framing a house that had been destroyed by Sandy Storm last year.
I got back to sailing all summer and was a "jib and kite trimmer" on a 40 ft. boat that we sail in the Sandy Hook Bay. Except for the day when I slipped on a rope while tacking in high winds and got a bone contusion on my hip, it was a fun time with no pain in the knee. I did find that I had to wear knee pads because of leaning on the side of the cockpit when the boat was healed over.
Although I am pretty much doing what I was pre-op, I still have about the same amount of knee pain as I did before the TKR. I had hoped that after all that I have gone through in the last year that I would be pain free. After-all thats why we all get this procedure, to be pain free and increase our mobility. I know everyone is different but I guess that I'll just have to wait and hope that it gets better.
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