I have heard that a lot today
Kurt - give em hell buddy! I hope your recovery is speedy and uneventful.
There‘s been a lot of great advice given. And I’m sure you will do fine.
But I just wanted to give you a little different perspective, too. Don’t beat yourself up at all if things are a bit tougher than expected. There‘s a tremendous amount of variability in recovery and healing responses.
I’m sure you will do great. But don’t get down at all if there are rough spots.
I know you’ve heard a lot of “it was the best thing I’ve ever done” and “I don’t know why I waited so long” type testimonials.
And for the majority that’s probably true!
All I’m saying is that, if it’s not quite as smooth/rosy as that…….thats ok, too.
My perspective on this is as a recently retired (after almost 45 years) health care provider (dentist) who had literally hundreds and hundreds of my patients who had undergone joint replacement surgeries over the decades I was in practice. It was an important issue on the health history because of the need for antibiotic premedication prior to invasive dental procedures for those patients, especially in the first year following joint replacement surgery. There’s a side story to that whole thing that I could write a (boring) book about……..
I heard the good and the not so good of it all. The good vastly outnumbered the not so good but almost everyone ended up with very successful outcomes in the long run.
Closer to home, my wife has had both her knees done in the last 3-4 years (she did mostly just great) and my brother in law had his done this past year, too.
Typically they give a long lasting local (marcaine, or similar) right at the end of the surgery and some good stuff pain med-wise. Ice/cold packs are your friend. Once the first few weeks are past, things get better and better.
But you may just hit the ground running and never look back at all!
Keep that positive Coug attitude and crush the recovery!!
