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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  I'm sure sorry the TKR didn't go well. I know she must be so disappointed. Joint replacement doesn't always work out successfully and many still have just about an equal amount of pain as before surgery, though those who are able to rehab like fiends from the beginning tend to have far less post-op, long-term, chronic pain. I'm one of those whose TJ didn't work out well - lost half my blood during surgery and refused a blood transfusion out of fear of disease and was just too weak for months to rehab properly. It finally took intensive infusion therapy to bring my hemocrit back to normal but by the time I had enough red blood cells to have any energy for real rehab, the soft tissue and muscle around the hip prosthesis was in a sorry state.
I'd take her to the largest hospital with the largest, best orthopedic department you can find as there tends to be lots more successes, less morbidity and far more oversight and far better total joint program administration and long-term follow-up with orthopedic procedures done in large, big-city hospitals who perform zillions of them. Preferably, get her into see the chief of orthopedics or get a referral from him if he doesn't do TKR's himself, and, of course, only take her to a board certified orthopedic surgeon.
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Thank you, we are the kind of people that check everything, cross all the T's and dot all the I's and yet. One thing I will always remember that she said while in the midst of it 'what would people's outcome be if they didn't work as hard in therapy as I have.' She worked so hard, she had me in tears.