RodBallard
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I'm Rod, 58 male, & have a date on the calendar, Dec 4th, 2009 for Right FKR. I'm relieved to have made the decision, & scared is more accurate than "nervous" about the post-op process. Sort of 2nd guessing, but for the persistent pain & the cotozone to cortozone process I've been in for the past 2 years, each shot having less of an impact & helping a shorter period of time.
My paid began about 2 1/2 years ago, don't recall injuring my knee but tore a medial meniscus cartiledge, went in for surgery (18 months ago) (was playing golf 3 weeks afterwards & encouraged to be "on my way"). Apparently the MD repaired the tear; but while in there scraped or polished alot of arthritis (wish he hadn't) because 6 months afterwards my knee was a bee hive, super pain, up to the left rump, down to the toes, up the inner leg, all sorts of grinding during flexing, a son of a gun. Am told there's bone on bone (interior), wonder if he clipped the cartiledge too close w/o knowing...will never know.
So...I'm set to go. Chose a different MD, was ticked that the initial MD hadn't mentioned the scraping the arthritis bit prior to the lights going out. Three patients in the waiting room this week, all about my age, were 3 weeks post of; super pleased with their result; 2 using a cane, 1 w/o a cane, all able to do steps & reporting the pain to be alleviated! Praise the Lord, just what I needed to hear!
Each said that the first 2 weeks is a son of a gun; very hard. I have a home office, I travel on business regularly (airport walks have been increasingly painful). I've chosen Dec 4th, right after Thanksgiving, thinking I can "not travel" in Dec, return to PC work maybe inside 2 weeks, "lay low" during the Dec 15 - first week of Jan slow time & be ready to return to full work say 2nd week in Jan. That'd be about 5 weeks or so. Am I dreaming?
I'm on this site & grateful to have found it, for encouragement, reality checks, prep & planning etc. I'm wondering just how horrible those first 2 weeks can be? Thats frightening. My wife is in & out of the house during the week with her work, so I anticipate much time alone. She's more of a "suck it up", "get 'er done" pragmatist, but loves & cares for me & I know this. Still...concerned.
Any pre-op recommendations that would make the recovery less daunting, more successful? I need to lose weight (about 25 would help), am planning on bike riding this Fall when & where I can, maybe leg lifts...all preparatory to the op.
Thanks for all who've posted & been an encouragement thus far. Rod
My paid began about 2 1/2 years ago, don't recall injuring my knee but tore a medial meniscus cartiledge, went in for surgery (18 months ago) (was playing golf 3 weeks afterwards & encouraged to be "on my way"). Apparently the MD repaired the tear; but while in there scraped or polished alot of arthritis (wish he hadn't) because 6 months afterwards my knee was a bee hive, super pain, up to the left rump, down to the toes, up the inner leg, all sorts of grinding during flexing, a son of a gun. Am told there's bone on bone (interior), wonder if he clipped the cartiledge too close w/o knowing...will never know.
So...I'm set to go. Chose a different MD, was ticked that the initial MD hadn't mentioned the scraping the arthritis bit prior to the lights going out. Three patients in the waiting room this week, all about my age, were 3 weeks post of; super pleased with their result; 2 using a cane, 1 w/o a cane, all able to do steps & reporting the pain to be alleviated! Praise the Lord, just what I needed to hear!
Each said that the first 2 weeks is a son of a gun; very hard. I have a home office, I travel on business regularly (airport walks have been increasingly painful). I've chosen Dec 4th, right after Thanksgiving, thinking I can "not travel" in Dec, return to PC work maybe inside 2 weeks, "lay low" during the Dec 15 - first week of Jan slow time & be ready to return to full work say 2nd week in Jan. That'd be about 5 weeks or so. Am I dreaming?
I'm on this site & grateful to have found it, for encouragement, reality checks, prep & planning etc. I'm wondering just how horrible those first 2 weeks can be? Thats frightening. My wife is in & out of the house during the week with her work, so I anticipate much time alone. She's more of a "suck it up", "get 'er done" pragmatist, but loves & cares for me & I know this. Still...concerned.
Any pre-op recommendations that would make the recovery less daunting, more successful? I need to lose weight (about 25 would help), am planning on bike riding this Fall when & where I can, maybe leg lifts...all preparatory to the op.
Thanks for all who've posted & been an encouragement thus far. Rod