Hey Gang! I'm checkin in.

Hey gang! How are you all doing? I’ve been MIA for the past 4 or 5 weeks. I am still rehabbing my knee from surgery (Aug ’07). I see the doctor this Wednesday for my 12 week post op appt. Hopefully he will let me off this brace. My knee is ok. It’s not 100% and probably never will be. I want to exercise so bad because the weather is getting really nice in the evenings. Fall is the best!  It seems like I have to sacrifice something every time I turn around. Anyway I am maintaining my weight. Although I think I’m down 4 lbs (245). I will confirm at the end of the month. Also I am going to be posting pictures soon too! So where is some of the old gang Tali, Chris, Bert, Sonora , Janina, Andy?

 

I see Neecee, Shari , Donna, Angela, Diva, Denise, and Christa.  Hey! -Bud

Hey Bud.... Glad to see you here.... Man.. this knee thang has had you out for a while huh?  Well hopefully you will get off that brace... I will say that prayer for ya! We have some peeps on the board.... make sure you say hi!!!

wtf - is this romper room and your magic mirror???/  LOL - nice to see you, Bud!!!! Sonora is around...so is neener, Kriz only lurks here, he is suffering from failure to commit - lol. Andy, too lurks and pops in here and there.  Lotsa new peeps. Get back in here!

Hey Bud!! I'm still kickin!!

Welcome back! I'm here.

Hey Bud! I'm with Neecee on the Romper Room thing. LOL Ahhh the knee.  My friend in pain.  I am at the injection part of my knee journey.  I had surgery, Arthoscopic, in March and April of 2005.  It didn't get better, probably because I carried 350+ on them for so many years.  They are doing that "chicken fat " injection, not sure if it will work.  It's a course of 3 sets of shots, one in each knee.  They say no real way to tell if it is working until 6 weeks.  I had my last set of shots yesterday. So I'm hoping, although my doc said knee replacement whether I like it or not.  We're just seeing how far we can make it before that becomes inevitable. I'm glad to see you back!!!!!!!!!!!  Don't be a stranger.

Donna, why in the world will you not get your knee replacement?????  you should do it now before you do further damage.  Do it while you are young and can still enjoy your new legs!

Do it before you develop other issues that may stall knee replacement even more (high blood pressure, heart issues, etc).

DEW IT!!!!!

hey Neecee, My doctor even said I was far too young but that in the future it would be inevitable.  He said he'd like to see me buy me as much time as possible.  He also said that with my active lifestyle that even though knee replacements improve the life of those that are elderly, he said that I would have far less mobility with "new" knees then I would have with what I have now. I'm confused at what you said about high blood pressure and heart issues?  Is that somehow connected with knee replacement?   Forgive my ignorance but since I don't have any of those issues and never had -- my blood pressure tends to be quite low -- I'm confused how they would affect me in the future.  Are you saying because of age??   You could have me nervous here!!!

yes, that's all i mean...with aging comes lots of unexpected things. I did not mean to be an alarmist! Sorry, my friend. Okay, just wondering why you wouild put up with it.  knee surgeries are pretty amazing anymore, every single person i know who has had one has had great improvement! I realize the idea of healing can take a while, like poor ole Bud, and that is never appealing.

Okay, whew. LOL I know what you are saying, honestly.  But I am only 42 and the fact that so far the life span of a knee replacement is about 15 years being optimistic, the idea that at 57 I will have to do it again alarms me.  Most people don't get it until 57, so that's kind of my point. It bothered me that my ortho basically said that I would have to have it at some point, period.  I'm just really trying to avoid surgery at all costs.  He did arthoscopic in 2005 and now he's talking replacement, not even another measure as a "between" kind of thing.  I didn't heal well from the arthoscopic surgery and I honestly vowed at that point to never ever again have surgery like that.  I know that I would likely heal a lot better at this age but I am just really not ready to do a surgery and then a few months of recuperation.  I'm scared, truth be told.  Not of dying or anything but of really altering myself so much that I will never be right again.  It's not an easy decision just to do something like this.