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gavinwibrow
24th November 2015, 12:12 AM
Time to break a leg (old show business comment version/bad pun) with a second total knee replacement (RHS this time) on Wed, so will be out of action for 6 - 8 weeks based on my first experience 7 years ago.

This time, at 68 I'm not waiting for the pain too be a killer, but getting in early hoping for a reasonable recovery and a decade or so of useful mobility before I slow down too much. Unfortunately I left it too late to do the Kokoda Trail bucket list item with my son, despite him being an intensivist, but there's still a little breath in the old body.

Been doing some extra physio to hopefully ease the recovery, but will be several weeks of very uncomfortableness, despite the morphine or whatever.

superquag
24th November 2015, 12:29 AM
... I feel better now...:p

- Brave Bloke he is... especially after spending time working with someone who'd recently had one done...and was suffering terribly...