My left knee was in bad shape for years.  The doctors in PA would not consider surgery because of my age.  So I suffered for years taking lots of pain meds and anti imflamatories.  When we relocated to DE, I saw a new knee surgeon at the suggestion of my new family doctor.  He wanted to do my surgery as soon as possible.  He was surprized that I could stand or even walk.  I waited to have gastric bypass surgery to get my weight under 200 pounds. 

My left knee surgery was done in August 2005.  I call my left knee my "bionic knee".  I just had knee replacement surgery on my right knee.  I call this knee my new "bionic knee".  The first few weeks, I was in pain and used my pain meds.  It is very important to do physical therapy before and after surgery.  I had Dr. Bodenstab as my surgeon. He is totally awesome and so is his staff

I consider my knee surgeries to be quality of life surgeries.  I would do them again in a second if I had to.  Down the road, I may have to....studies show that they last about 20 years.  Gastric Bybass surgery saved my life and my knee surgeries gave me quality of life. 

i am to have knee replacement surgery.

if you could finish this statement. .
if i had known then what i know now about knee replacement surgery, i . . . . . . . . . . . .

please let me know. 

many thanks

What insurance do you have? I love Dr Peters Just had my RNY last Thursday :)

Yesterday, had my pre-op with my Plastic Surgeon(Joseph Thornton) i was kinda surprised they only do my type of plastic surgeries at Wilmington Hospital, but i am okay with it,  I go in on 3/2 a week from today at 6:30am. He informed me of how they were going to cut me from my left side (back) across the front to my right side (back), and as long i dont have complications from my  diabetes or anemia, i should only be admitted one, maybe two nights. I am so excited, i have waited 6 years to have this surgery and this time when my drs office requested the coverage for the surgery, they said yes at the first request. The first week, a little pain and discomfort, by week 2/3 he wants me out grocery shopping, by week 4 i should be healed,

 Temple was really nice. But basically all they said was "well all the surgery reports, xrays, ctscans blah blah look normal. We'll have to do a exploratory surgery ourselves to take a look and see."