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boss

Good luck

dstjohn99

Food&Fish

Jees mel you are in the wars i thought i was bad at 77 going in next week for a stint near the heart

joblow

Best of luck for a speedy recovery Milne :thumbright:

Mel Redcap

I'm home! Woo~! :headbang:

Yes, surgery was only four days ago. I'm still home. :wave:

I'm also only using paracetamol and icepacks for painkillers, because the oxycodone they were giving me made me throw up all the time... and I feel AWESOME. My surgeon says most of his patients have pain levels lower than pre-surgery three weeks after having a hip replacement; I hit that benchmark on day two. Seriously, guys, if you ever need a hip replacement, find a surgeon who does the anterior approach MEDACTA technique.

He also stuck an arthroscope into my knee on that side to see what's going on in there; the verdict is apparently that it's stuffed, but it's a fixable sort of stuffed, so that's going on the list to be taken care of. It should also be better now that I'm not walking like Quasimodo because of the hip! I'm using crutches; I can walk just fine without them, but the crutches provide stability, slow me down to prudent speeds, and also make sure I don't fall back into the Quasimodo lurch out of force of habit.

Milne, fingers crossed! Here's hoping your surgery goes as well as mine!

boss

Wonderful news and congratulations on a successful surgery. Aspirin and ice-packs! Wow you are a trooper!

dstjohn99

Great news, I'm glad your surgery was successful and you are feeling better!!!! Life is better pain free (or severely reduced).

joblow

Great news Mel it's all up from here:thumbright:

rininger85

Congrats Mel, hopefully you'll be dancing in no time. The knee just need cleaned out to set the arthritis back a while? My uncle had them clean both of his knees out and seemed to work well.

Mel Redcap

rininger85 wrote:

Congrats Mel, hopefully you'll be dancing in no time. The knee just need cleaned out to set the arthritis back a while? My uncle had them clean both of his knees out and seemed to work well.

The phrase he's using is "surgical realignment", which I think does boil down to "tidying up in there" XD

rininger85

Mel Redcap wrote:

rininger85 wrote:

Congrats Mel, hopefully you'll be dancing in no time. The knee just need cleaned out to set the arthritis back a while? My uncle had them clean both of his knees out and seemed to work well.

The phrase he's using is "surgical realignment", which I think does boil down to "tidying up in there" XD

It definitely needs some tidying up... saw the before and after pictures from my uncle's clean up and it was rather gross.

Mel Redcap

rininger85 wrote:

Mel Redcap wrote:

rininger85 wrote:

Congrats Mel, hopefully you'll be dancing in no time. The knee just need cleaned out to set the arthritis back a while? My uncle had them clean both of his knees out and seemed to work well.

The phrase he's using is "surgical realignment", which I think does boil down to "tidying up in there" XD

It definitely needs some tidying up... saw the before and after pictures from my uncle's clean up and it was rather gross.

Actually I have found out some more about what my surgeon is planning, and... it's not tidying up in there. Noooo. What he means is a procedure called "tibial osteotomy". Basically all the cartilage damage in my knee is on one side, so the plan is to slice a wedge of bone out of my tibia right below the knee, to tilt the joint so my weight rests on the other side (where I still have good cartilage). Apparently it does a good job of giving people several more years with a functioning knee!

Also, I'm feeling ridiculously smug right now, because at my first out-of-hospital followup meeting with the surgeon he first complimented me on my progress (I'm down to using one crutch) and then told me the surgery was difficult because I have "surprisingly muscular" legs. :headbang:

boss

I am so glad your recovery is progressing well. You deserve to be smug and proud too.
So the surgeon just needs to tweak your knee a bit :lol:

You'll be back in the game in no time.

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Coach Brian
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Mel Redcap

Beeeeeeans!

Yellow climbing beans taking over the hoop house

Spaghetti squash coming along nicely!

First pattypan squash, picked yesterday...

...and the first round zucchini, picked today. :headbang:

dstjohn99

I'm sure it looks nice. For unknown reasons many photos are no longer visible on the forum. I treied both Chrome and IE, but they come through like this:

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