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[merc1997 Bo]

A Lot of us are cancer survivors Dave. If it is really bad I just hope he does bot have to drag on and on. I have already made up my mind. If mine shows up somewhere else I am going to choose to check out. I am tired of all the surgery. In a few week or less my fishing season is going to end for the year. I am going to have a knee replacement Revision. In other words replace the replacement. this will be my 12 th surgery and that is enought for anyones lifetime.

sorry to hear that you are going to have to have your replacement replaced. guess that is where they keep improving as we go along. my knee was replaced about 2 1/2 years ago. i am a bit of an experiment. for one thing because i fish all the time, i need to be able to twist like a normal knee for running the trolling motor at all the odd angles. my knee replacement allows that. the other great thing is that it has a replaceable wear surface. they x-ray it ever two years to measure the space of the wear surface. if it get too thin, they can go in and replace the wear surface in a very minimally invasive surgery. the wear surface in testing shows to last an average of 30 years, but only time will tell if that is correct.

here is a prayer for everything to go smoothly for you, and that you will be good as new in a short time.

bo

[Hazbin]

I'm still looking for one of those..

What are talking abou man?, you are as consistant as they come!

[Old plug]

MERC----- i would not worry about that an fishing. I do not run a foot controlled trolling motor. I have a long swivel handle. But I also maintain a award winning garden and have grow over a hundred verities of hosta plants among other things. Ive been digging holes and crawling around on rocks and you name it for 17 yrs on these things. Worst happened was I tripped getting out of my boat when it was up on the lift and fell about 4 ft right onto them( They have both been replace at the same time by the way) with no ill effects. I would worry more about them failing with age. That usually will happen between the 17th and 23rd year you have them. I would discuss with your doctor the need to take a Xray every couple of years. The reason is because when they do fail it will be very helpful to the surgeon that has to do the revision replacement to have a Xray history. My doctor did not do that( he was suppose to) and the Surgeon told me it would be a bit like flying blind. I was also told by my doctor also told me the plastic the plastic plate they insert had broken up in the left knee. that was not really true. It appears my doctor sort of jumped the gun. My left one is in a stage of early failure. There will be surgery in the not to distant future for certain. But I will be going back to every 3 months for Xray and maybe a some type of image. so that he can see what is going on. Revision surgery is a lot more complicated than first time and it has more pitfalls involved.

Tell you what what I would do if I was you. I would buy a good knee brace and wear it. I have 2. I wear one on the bad Knee that is made by Mueller that has steel braces and is so effective I can step up on the steps with that knee with no problem most of the time. The other one is a ACE and it slips on then has straps you hitch up. I will be wearing that one for the. rest of my days to preserve that right knee as much as I can. The Ace is smaller than the Mueller. I think it would help you a lot to preserve that knee. Wally world has both of them in stock.

Reason I am going through all this with you MERC is that I ask the doctor when I got the first surgery how long it would last and he said as long as you will. He told me also about replacing the plastic If that was ever needed. Well it did not work out that way and I have heard of many who have had this revision experience. There are also other things that happen. The post become loose (very common and my problem) and wear the plastic worse. you should try to research this question of life of a replacement on the internet if you can for your own knowledge.