Knee Replacement Surgery

Yay – I ordered a single bed from Argos to put in the spare room, which since my daughter left home has been a study-come-dumping-ground, and it arrived today. Read more…

Yep – it came round all too soon. Off I went to the hospital and then had a barrage of tests.

I had to do a wee sample which surprised me, and was also unfortunate as I’d been before I left and so only managed the tiniest bit. The nurse said my generosity was overwhelming!

Read about the rest of my experience.

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I’ve been quite surprised that no one I’ve seen about my knee so far has asked any questions about my personal circumstances. After all I live in a 3 bed-semi with one loo and that’s upstairs. How will I cope afterwards for the first week or so? What will or won’t I be able to do?

Luckily I have common sense so I’m getting some bits and pieces ready for when I come out of hospital. Read more…

How exciting – not!

Perhaps I should say straight away that I’m 50 and that’s apparently very young to be undergoing this type of surgery? (So that’s one reason I decided to document my experience). Read more…

Hi Everyone, I’m due to have my left knee replaced on October 2nd 2009.

I have tried to find some first hand information on what I can expect from the whole process but without any luck.

So I’ve decided to share my experience here for anyone else who is going to have a TKR (total knee replacement) in the future and hope it may answer some of your queries.