Knee replacement surgery
 

My daughter who is the light of my life is having knee replacement surgery Monday 7-14 and although it is a common surgery we have had friends who have had complications and we are not looking for that to happen.

I know there are more important things here but if you have a minute a wish or prayer would be appreciated.

The hospital is two miles from LeBron James's home, hope the traffic has calmed down some.

Thank You,

Joan

My heart and my prayers are with you and your daughter. I hope this surgery frees your daughter from the pain she must be having and that she has a smooth, uneventful recuperation.

I am keeping your daughter in my prayers that she has a successful surgery and has a complete uneventful recovery.

Your daughter is in my thoughts & prayers. I know you will be on pins & needles until the surgery is over.

I have been thinking about you and your daughter. I pray that the surgery is successful and that it alleviates her pain.

Joan, I am praying your daughter's knee replacement surgery went well today and that she will recover without complication.

Hope your daughter's knee replacement went well and that she has as speedy recovery....with no complications later on.

Thinking of you and your daughter and hope all went well with her surgery. Praying for a quick recovery.

Just now seeing this and praying your daughter has had her surgery and is doing well. That first day is often pretty tough painwise and I pray she's given good pain relief. May God be with her as she heals and rehabs.

Joan, I am keeping your daughter in my prayers and thoughts. I hope she is doing well.

I am so sorry for not getting back to you until now. Her's was not a good situation even though she seemed to have checked everything out and is always so well organized.

I just posted a long answer and lost it but will post more tomorrow, I am in a hurry.

Thanks to all of you for the thoughts and prayers, they always mean so much.

Oh dear, that does not sound good. Keep us posted.

I'm back.

As I mentioned at the beginning to the thread she left our wonderful care and hospital to another Doctor who seemed to be better and the new hospital
affiliated with great health care.

In talking, my daughter, said the Dr. bragged about himself quite a bit and when I met him, I felt her comment was an understatement to say the least but did not say anything since she was nervous enough as it was. This Satellite Hospital where this Dr. was on staff and supposed to be building a patient base was almost empty so that in turn left very few employees working. She was in too much pain to notice any of this and I talked with many in charge and the Dr. to no avail. Therapy that was supposed to take six weeks went into months and the Dr. and Therapy did not know what the other was doing. At one point when they asked about her loss of weight, we both explained that we both had called to let them know about her weight loss and lack of sleep weeks before.

She still has the other knee to have taken care of and you can just imagine how little she is looking forward to it. She will be staying right here for the second one though.

I didn't want to scare anyone that has this ahead of them but it's best to know what can happen. We both feel the good word from people who have had surgery in the area you are living or where there is an excellent hospital is almost the most important bit of info one can get. Also check to see if the Dr. you are thinking of has law suits against him/her.

It most always goes well, just remember that.

Joan

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.

Give your daughter my love and a big hug. ♥

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.