Seajay
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I never dreamed it would take this long to get one little bitty knee fixed. I have harassed the surgery scheduling lady for my doctor now and she recognizes my voice without asking ''Name and Date of Birth please''.
First of all, it seems that this is the ''season'' for knee replacement here in Granite Falls, NC. My doctor does these procedures two days a week and the rest of the time he is seeing patients, giving shots and doing his ''doctor thing'' with old people like me. He is a whale of a nice guy and he looks like a line backer for the Green Bay Packers. He is easy to talk to and he explains everything in simple English. Seems the great problem is that he is one of the best in the South East and he is in great demand for knee replacement surgery.
Tracy, his scheduling nurse called me last Thursday morning and said she would check his schedule again and try to get me an appointment for surgery on December 11. Good greef...... this is going to greatly interfear with our Florida get a way for the winter. It looks like we may have to see snow or at least cold weather till sometime in January. I told Tracy that I would be glad to buy someone elses time slot to get the procedure done at a earlier date. She said she would keep me informed but it looked like the December date was the earliest I could get.
Such is life I guess.
I have become a good friend to my pain pill bottle now. I wear an Ace bandage some of the time and other times I wear a full knee brace but my knee still hurts most of the time.
Many thanks for everyone that has posted a reply too my other posting concerning this and I have no fear of the operation now. In fact, I want to ''get it done'' and go on with my life. I told Willa that they have my heart beating right now (no A-phib now) and maybe soon I will get my knee fixed and I should be in pretty good ''shape''........... I figure after all this I will get hit and killed by a mixer truck.
Anyhow, Thanks Again for the good advise on this ........
I will keep you posted............
Lets all pray for our troops .............cj
First of all, it seems that this is the ''season'' for knee replacement here in Granite Falls, NC. My doctor does these procedures two days a week and the rest of the time he is seeing patients, giving shots and doing his ''doctor thing'' with old people like me. He is a whale of a nice guy and he looks like a line backer for the Green Bay Packers. He is easy to talk to and he explains everything in simple English. Seems the great problem is that he is one of the best in the South East and he is in great demand for knee replacement surgery.
Tracy, his scheduling nurse called me last Thursday morning and said she would check his schedule again and try to get me an appointment for surgery on December 11. Good greef...... this is going to greatly interfear with our Florida get a way for the winter. It looks like we may have to see snow or at least cold weather till sometime in January. I told Tracy that I would be glad to buy someone elses time slot to get the procedure done at a earlier date. She said she would keep me informed but it looked like the December date was the earliest I could get.
Such is life I guess.
I have become a good friend to my pain pill bottle now. I wear an Ace bandage some of the time and other times I wear a full knee brace but my knee still hurts most of the time.
Many thanks for everyone that has posted a reply too my other posting concerning this and I have no fear of the operation now. In fact, I want to ''get it done'' and go on with my life. I told Willa that they have my heart beating right now (no A-phib now) and maybe soon I will get my knee fixed and I should be in pretty good ''shape''........... I figure after all this I will get hit and killed by a mixer truck.
Anyhow, Thanks Again for the good advise on this ........
I will keep you posted............
Lets all pray for our troops .............cj