#knee replacement surgery

[void-star]

Hey my friend has had her surgery cancelled and then rescheduled three times already for not being able to front a portion of the cost prior to the appointment.

It would mean a lot to me if you could donate even just $5 and share this around so she can get the treatment she needs.

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[mattsmemes]

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[kriscynical]

It's that time again, which is fortunate because it means the last time went REALLY REALLY WELL through recovery:

Mom of the Wild is having surgery again tomorrow (Fri 6/21) to replace her OTHER knee.

The fact that she was able to get it done so soon after the last (4/3/24) is a testament to how remarkably well — and fast — she healed and the kind of progress she made in physical therapy after.

Right now for her right knee, after everything was said and done she can bend it back to I believe 124°. They aim for 120°. She's impressed every single PT she's seen. Katie the home PT told her "You're the nicest tough lady I've ever met."

We love Katie. She's going to be our home PT again for this one and we're looking forward to seeing her again.

So now it's time to get her left knee done, and she needs it BADLY because it's gotten exponentially worse in the last couple weeks and has started giving out completely here and there. I've been thankful more than once that she has a "good leg" now on her right with quite a bit of strength behind it after all of the PT.

Hopefully the recovery from this surgery will go even better because the outpatient PT has also been working on strengthening her left knee as much as possible which he said will make her recovery even faster.

We're almost to the finish line. As I told her a couple days ago: "This is the worst that you're ever going to be. From here on out it will only get BETTER."

Surgery is tomorrow at 2:45. I'll update like I did last time once I get the notification that she's in recovery.

(That is also an accurate representation of her attitude going into this one.)

[bookdragonpoet56]

A nice bowl of cherries I had for a snack/lunch on Wednesday

I sunrise shot from Thursday morning while Stella and I got in our walk just before 6am. After over a month of issues getting a new referral to my knee doctor I finally got in for what was supposed to be my 6 month follow up. He is pleased with how the x-rays look and found my range of motion and other physical responses to be excellent. I got a shot of steroids for the other knee and was told we could replace it whenever I wanted and told I don’t need to come back for another year. So that’s my Friday flex, a fully recovered knee replacement. Now let’s see/hear yours and remember it can be any kind of flex you want

@findingforest51 @m0tiv8me @marine-corps-strong @fitgothgirl @gramarobin @welldigger62 and anyone else who wants to join

[lifewithchronicpain]

Thousands of Artificial Knees and Hips Wear Out Prematurely — Pain News Network

By Fred Schulte, KFF Health News Ron Irby expected the artificial knee implanted in his right leg in September 2018 would last two decades

Ron Irby expected the artificial knee implanted in his right leg in September 2018 would last two decades — perhaps longer.

Yet in just three years, the Optetrak implant manufactured by Exactech in Gainesville, Florida, had worn out and had to be replaced — a painful and debilitating operation.

“The surgery was a huge debt of pain paid over months,” said Irby, 71, a Gainesville resident and retired medical technologist with the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Irby is one of more than 1,100 patients suing Exactech after it began recalling artificial knees, hips, and ankles, starting in August 2021. A letter Exactech sent to surgeons blamed a packaging defect dating back as far as 2004 for possibly causing the plastic in a knee component to wear out prematurely in about 140,000 implants.

Many patients argue in hundreds of lawsuits that they have suffered through, or could soon face, challenging and risky operations to replace defective implants that failed.

Although Exactech does not offer an express warranty on its products, the company stresses the durability of its implants in advertising, even suggesting they likely will outlive their human recipients. (Read more at link)

[wisdomfish]

If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and unprayed for.

C.H. Spurgeon