Had final pre-op today with physicians assistant. Asked my three pages of questions lol. They will most likely use the zimmer persona.
He said I will be able to squat - how far will depend. They really discourage running at all so the impact doesn’t loosen the cement. I got him to agree that a little bit of dashing here and there would probably not be an issue.
I will lose the acl, but that’s it. Nothing else cut. He said he does it as minimally invasive as possible. The incision will be 13-15 cm.
For anesthesia they just use propofol and an abductor canal block in the inner thigh - then when I’m out will inject more numbing stuff around the knee. No spinal block.
Ill be on tramedol, norc, aspirin, Celebrex and lyrica, and Keflex since it’s outpatient and won’t get much for antibiotics.
I follow up at two weeks, 6 weeks, three months, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 5 years, ten years - he said this dr takes care of you.
he said his infection rates were next to nothing - he feels this dr is the best in the state.
I told him that my determination isn’t so much the pain (not that it isn’t, cause that is huge), but my mobility. I need to be able to move now before I get any older and it gets even harder. He totally agreed.
He did say that the first two weeks will be bad, but that it will improve after that.
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