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RunA42K and to all my other BoneSmart friends - I am 11 months post RTKR today and thought it was about time I posted on my own thread with an update, especially to maybe help those, like me who are having a long,slow recovery. I was perusing my thread a little bit and, indeed I have made significant progress in the last month. I have finally seen the light after a long bout with major depression, UTI's one after the other and have recently been more active than I have been in at least two years.
Still icing and elevating at the end of the day when necessary. Went to Macy's today (where I hadn't been to a department store since April), shopped for a couple of hours, went to Weight Watchers, then lunch, and then to Costco. Needless to say, I am now icing and elevating, but will be up and active shortly.
One of my guilty pleasures has been shopping for clothes. We are going on a 7-day cruise on Saturday, there are 80 of us going from our community, and shopping for new clothes has been so much fun - I have lost 40 lbs. since my TKR, now have my appetite back, and hopefully the motivation to keep it off will stay with me. That's why I went back to WW. I am still under goal, and it dawned on me this morning losing weight is another reason why I finally feel so great.
I want to give encouragement to all those who are struggling, I know I still have a ways to go, with a possible revision because of a loose PCL, but I do find that the exercise I have finally started (water and chair exercise and yoga) are helping with the laxity of my knee. If you read through my thread you will know that I have had a lot going on during the past year, including muscle pulls, major depression, pneumonia, moving twice, and I would not have made it this far without the help of the advisors and friends I have made on this Forum. You all have no idea how much has it had helped and encouraged me, along with providing much information that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet and certainly not through our OS.
I do want a new name for my thread so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Again, thanks to all of you for all your help. Too many names to mention but I think of you all every day, even if I'm not thinking about my knee.
Dorothy