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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Goodness, Susan Jane; I don't know what to say, except that I am glad that 
things are improving for you; and to congratulate you for your perserverance. 
 take care ......bob

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--- On Wed, 3/25/09, sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net> wrote:


> Thanks for the wb :) 
> 
> I'm a little over halfway there; the surgery last fall
> was to stabilize 
> the upper back.  This last one was to rebuild the bowed
> right leg and 
> replace the knee (stainless steel, titanium, silicone), and
> rearrange 
> some muscles and ligaments that had long ago gone bad. 
> Then began the 
> PT, 6 hrs a day, punctuated by an hour of OT after lunch
> each day.  I 
> had no clue how much work it was going to be, and although
> I'm really 
> not much of a wuss, was completely taken aback by the
> amount of pain 
> this time; I'm told most of that is the muscles trying
> to reform 
> themselves according to Hoyle.  Amazing that they can do it
> at all, 
> given that this surgery is 60 years "too late".
> 
> It is indeed a weird thing to be able to walk upright now,
> also weird to 
> have so much less pain when I put weight on the right
> foot/knee/leg.  I 
> still have a couple of months of PT 2X/wk, but feel like
> I'm flying high 
> now!  I can put my right foot where I want it to go, and
> have 100% 
> extension in the new knee, 120% flexion....all better than
> when I was 
> 20!  So far, all has gone as expected/predicted by the
> orthopedic guy; 
> he says that when all is said and done, will be painfree in
> 
> legs/knees/ankles/feet. 
> The upper back is as good as it's gonna get, but even
> so it is much 
> better than it has been for 50 years or more.....I'll
> go for that!
> Still stuck with the walker until sometime this summer,
> after the 
> muscles/ligaments/etc in the right leg are all working
> correctly, the 
> left lower leg bones will be done and that knee also
> replaced.  That leg 
> doesn't have as much bow, and the knee is not nearly so
> far out of line 
> as the right one was so hopefully this one will be faster
> and easier to 
> get past.
> 
> You people who still have small kids about:  for crying out
> loud, make 
> sure they don't have scoliosis, and if they do, that it
> gets treated in 
> timely fashion.  All this (and everything that led up to it
> over my 
> entire upright lifetime) could have been averted with one
> surgery 'way 
> back when if my mother hadn't decided it not necessary.
>   My brother 
> also deals with a congenital issue which should have been
> easily 
> corrected when he was an infant.....  Some people
> shouldn't be allowed 
> to have children; our mother was one of those.
> 
> SJ, where we have about a foot of snow still on the pasture
> but have had 
> warm days and the syrup run has been fantastic.  My job
> since I'm not 
> too mobile is to keep the fire going under the evaporators.
>  Grade A 
> syrup $60 this year (maple, not sure about birch).
> 
> SJ
> 
> 
> EarthNSky wrote:
> > Glad to see you back my friend.  You and Donna should
> compare notes as 
> > you both are on the mend!
> >   
> 
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