The last post is the WINNER!

[sun rise]

I was very discouraged about 3 months in and I talked to my doctor about it.
Everyone I talked to that had a replacement was telling me how great it was and how they were pretty much back to normal in 6 weeks, or 10 weeks or 12 weeks.... my MD said, no they weren't. It takes 6 months to a year for recovery and that means getting over pain and discomfort and regaining flexibility. My MD did not understand why, but virtually everyone who gets a knee replacement seems to forget how long it took to recover. Later my physical therapist told me pretty much the same thing when I was getting depressed about it.

However one very important thing is physical therapy and doing all your exercises religiously and often. Especially the flexibility ones. It hurts, but you have to do it. And long bouts of sitting normally can be a bad thing

Something I noticed. I have been dealing with knee and joint issues for over 12 years and the body will, without you noticing, change the way you move to avoid pain. Other times you consciously change things or stop moving a certain way to avoid pain. That is a hard thing, at least for me, to retrain. I have had to do gait training to retrain myself to walk properly and I have had to not avoid pain in the replaced knee, that prior to the replacement I had to avoid because it was a bad thing. The pain in the replaced knee can be a good thing, at times, can mean you are breaking up scar tissue or it could be pointing out where you need to work on breaking up scar tissue. However there are pains that you need to tell your MD about immediately too.

However at just over 6 months, the lack of a good night sleep is still an issue and the pain, for what appears to be no reason, at 3:00am is not fun and I still can't convince myself its a good thing

I hope 2022 is better.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I hope 2022 is better.

I'm holding out for 2222. It's symmetrical.

 

[John53]

Are you from the future?

Yes. Stay where you are! There are giant turnips attacking aaaarrrrgggghhhhhhh

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Yes. Stay where you are! There are giant turnips attacking aaaarrrrgggghhhhhhh

I rather like turnips. Sometimes, I eat them like apples.

 

[John53]

I rather like turnips. Sometimes, I eat them like apples.

Me too, love them. Happiness is a nice young turnip and a couple of radishes.

 

[sun rise]

Me too, love them. Happiness is a nice young turnip and a couple of radishes.

Poor innocent plants.

 

[John53]

Poor innocent plants.

Root vegetables are much better if you eat them before they've had a chance to breed.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

The root of my problem is that I am not sure how to respond to the previous two posts. I'll have to dig and find some deeper meaning.

 

[John53]

The root of my problem is that I am not sure how to respond to the previous two posts. I'll have to dig and find some deeper meaning.

It's guilt from all the juvenile vegetables you've massacred

 

[sun rise]

I'm about to put some lettuce out of its misery.

 

[Wu Wei]

oh brother

 

[sun rise]

oh brother

where art thou

 

[Sgt. Pepper]

I'm more of a carrot eater myself. Those carrots never saw it coming.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

It's guilt from all the juvenile vegetables you've massacred

It may very well be. Somewhere, deep inside me, there is remorse that I must root out.

 

[sun rise]

I'm more of a carrot eater myself. Those carrots never saw it coming.

But before that scene of domestic cookery

 

[John53]

It may very well be. Somewhere, deep inside me, there is remorse that I must root out.

What exactly are you doing with turnips?

 

[Wu Wei]

I'm more of a carrot eater myself. Those carrots never saw it coming.

 

[ChristineM]

It builds character...

It builds grouchy grizzly bears

 

[ChristineM]

I don't do new years resolutions, that way i have no problems when i fail at them so that's a winner.

But as an old year resolution i resolve to be asleep before new year just 16 minutes away so goodnight all and a happy new year to you.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

What exactly are you doing with turnips?

Let's change the subject.