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Gramps49
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Now that I am fully recovered from my back surgery, I am going under the knife again this Friday, December 16. This time it will be for right knee total replacement. Good thoughts and/or prayers appreciated.
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Golden Key
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Best possible outcome, with swift and easy recovery.
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Evangeline
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Best wishes for as little pain and a swift recovery to full mobility.
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Welease Woderwick
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Amen to that!
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Latchkey Kid
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Mika; in Hello? Is Anybody There?, Jostein Gaardner
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Tobias
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MaryLouise
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All the best for a quick recovery
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Boogie
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All the best for your op
DO the exercises and you'll be a new Gramps!
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Erroneous Monk
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You are very brave Gramps49. May all be well.
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Bishops Finger
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Hear, hear.
IJ
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Piglet
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All the best, Gramps. My m-i-l had a knee replacement about 10 years ago, and a few weeks later she was practically "leaping as an hart", as it says in the Psalms. Well, maybe not quite, but certainly going for quite long walks.
Hope your recovery goes as well as that.
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JB
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Motherboard had a knee replacement about five years ago, and the star of the show was a knee-flexing machine. She used it (at home) for about two weeks and was sad to see it go back to the hospital. At that point her new knee had a greater range of motion than the original knee had for years.
I think she even fell asleep using it.
Wishing you the best possible outcome.
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Sarasa
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Good luck. My work colleague who had both done was back at work, dashing about within a very few weeks. I think the key is doing the exercises - as far as I can gather he started more or less as soon as he'd come round from the anasethic!
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lily pad
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Originally posted by JB:
Motherboard had a knee replacement about five years ago, and the star of the show was a knee-flexing machine. She used it (at home) for about two weeks and was sad to see it go back to the hospital. At that point her new knee had a greater range of motion than the original knee had for years.
I think she even fell asleep using it.
Wishing you the best possible outcome.
I used this machine last February - for 48 hours in the hospital and then for two weeks at home. It was great. Apparently, they have stopped using them for knee replacements here. I had a "manipulation under anesthesia" for a knee that had decided to stay straight rather than bend. Whatever you do, do the exercises or find out why you can't before you have to have this delightful procedure. (Delightful only in that it works!)
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