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Aside from the skill of the medical staff and the luck that everything progresses normally well, one of the biggest predictors of what you will be able to do afterwards is what you could do before. If you are fairly active and have good musculature before your recovery will be easier. If you put the surgery off until your muscles have atrophied and you can't move very well then not only do you have to recover from the surgery but rebuild your muscles.
 
I think I know the answer....but after you get past the beginning of your recovery can you do some of your work remotely? Not the training but maintaining the system? Helping by phone or having web conferences? :hissyfit:
 
Yes, they are working on putting that in place. But that may be a curse. I want to focus on me and my recovery. It is time to be selfish!
 
Oh you are absolutely correct about taking care of yourself first! I would only let them "use" you on YOUR terms.:hate-shocked:
 
Gene,

As it was explained to me when I decided to have knee surgery:

The school will continue to go on without you, it may be a little harder but You need to take time for You!

I haven't been back for 2 years, and probably will not return to teaching. Too much stress and paperwork! Where is the time to teach the kids? It drove me crazy the last 2 years that I worked because all the principal wanted us to do was "teach to the test"!

That was not why I joined the profession for 20 years.:hissyfit:
 
Boy, that opens a whole new set of threads that are more painful than arthritis!!
 
Well, I got more detail about the pressure to keep working to support this new Student Information System. I learned that last week, at the last High School principal meeting they expressed concern about the rumor that I was retiring in June and wereworried about who would provide support.

It actually resulted in the Superintendent asking my boss if it was true.

All I can say is, they should take up a collection and make me an offer I can't refuse. I wish I could retire this year.

Two knee replacements is no vacation or retirement. I sent the word out that I'll be back.
 
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Well, I got more detail about the pressure to keep working to support this new Student Information System. I learned that last week, at the last High School principal meeting they expressed concern about the rumor that I was retiring in June and wereworried about who would provide support.
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Good to hear you're appreciated. But you were right in your earlier post--you need to take care of yourself. And besides, what is sick leave for but to take it when you need it?
 
Well 4 weeks and a couple days to go. Big dental procedure coming up on Thursday.

Just waiting, reading and watching wars, earthquakes and tsunami on CNN.

Wish I was on the other side.
 
Good luck on Thursday. Hope it all goes well! Then you will be one step closer to your op date. Hang in there Gene!
 
Indeed hang in there - it will be over before you know it!
 
Gene,

Thanks for reminding me that I have one month and 1 day to go!:WINK1:

I am looking forward to walking normally again, and by the end of May, I want to walk into my old principal's office and remind her of what she has missed!:hysterical:
 
Best of luck to you Gene! I think you will find the answer to the title of your thread on the other side.
Different, but good enough.
Sandy
 
Hang in there Gene. I too am so looking forward to my RTKR on May 31st. I just can't wait, but have to. :sigh: I am often wondering what I am doing to my good LTKR. Sometimes I catch it swelling just a little. This makes me think I am doing too much with it. I am really trying to be careful until surgery time. I know things will be so much better. I think I may even be able to run again. Keep the hope. :yes 4:
 
Are the knees good enough? Well, I did 45 minutes on the elliptical machine today and 45 minutes on the stationary bike. I cannot wait until the really good weather gets here, so I can ride the real thing as far as I would like to.

Yep, they are good enough.
 
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Are the knees good enough? Well, I did 45 minutes on the elliptical machine today and 45 minutes on the stationary bike. I cannot wait until the really good weather gets here, so I can ride the real thing as far as I would like to.

Yep, they are good enough.
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I hear ya about the good weather. There was this lingering cloud way off in the distance today that was really threatening today's clear blue skies, 78 degrees, sun shining, ocean breeze here today in ole South Florida. Tomorrow is supposed to be nicer. :hysterical:
 
Today was nuclear stress test day. They shoot you up with radioactive stuff till you glow in the dark, then take pictures or x-rays while you lay on a table with your arms high over you head.

Don't move for 20 minutes.

Take a break and then do it again this time after a session on a treadmill. Another twenty minutes on the table. This time I asked permission to breath. It was granted.

By the time it was all over, I needed to make an appointment with an ortho to deal with the pain in my shoulder. (pain yes, appt. no)

Oh yeah, still waiting for a call from the Cardio doc to tell me if my blood is still flowing through my coronary arteries and most importantly, will they clear me for TKR.

All of this is so much fun, Another day. Hopefully only 28 more to go to TKR.
 
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