Tell that to my wife... Seriously, her mom had one of hers done about 4 years ago, at which time she would have been about 70. She had three weeks of inpatient care because my father in law just isn't capable of caring for her. She recovered well and was pretty much back to speed or close to it in a month or two.
The wife is just freaking out over the surgery itself and the post op pain she expects. I'll be doing the drill sergeant thing with her along with three times a week home visits from the PT people. I'm expecting a fairly rapid recovery. As for knees, I have a work associate who is a major league pussy get his knee done over the holidays last December. He is still on "light duty" until May, courtesy of his doctor. The guy is nowhere near impaired at this point if you ask me. However, he still uses his handicapped sticker every day and avoids any and all physical exertion. That being said, I am surrounded by many "public employees", as it were, so you see a fair amount of working of the system. Dan Sent from my iPad On Mar 25, 2013, at 3:00 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hip replacements are really not that big a deal anymore. My then 85 year old > grandmother was up and walking the next day. Still doing fine with it 8 years > later. > > Knees on the other hand are a different story. My mother had both done nearly > 2 years ago and recovery was tough although she was also up and walking the > next day and home a day or two after that. Apparently once your knees are > replaced theres a good chance you'll never be able to kneel again. > > -Curt > > Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:57:36 -0700 > From: Craig <diese...@pisquared.net> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Pi day past, where's Craig? > Message-ID: <20130322185736.e77ed9669a3e891c80654...@pisquared.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:21:32 -0400 Max Dillon <meadedil...@bellsouth.net> > wrote: > >> Ugh, doesn't sound like fun at all. May her surgeon be skilled and the >> surgery a success. > > Indeed! > > There's a guy in New Mexico that is doing hip replacements from the > front. I'm told it reduces the need to cut muscles significantly. > > > Craig > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
