[AT] Knees

[Lew Best]

That's amazing!!!!!!!!!!

Lew

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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Larry Goss
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 9:09 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Knees

<<snip>> One size fits all -- regardless of body build.  The entire leg is
held in a portable "machining center" to prepare the old joint.  No muscles
or tendons are cut.  The whole operation takes between 10 and 15 minutes. 
Everything else is rehab.

Larry 

----- Original Message -----
From: Gene's Wowway e-mail <gwaugh at wowway.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 4:55
Subject: Re: [AT] Knees
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> I just want to add my success story---only one knee, but it was 
> about 10 
> years ago and has been an unqualified success...I was relatively 
> young when 
> it was done (under 60) and rehabbed at home, with physical 
> therapy of 
> course---and this was I think the best choice for me.  
> Every case is 
> different, of course.  And I do know a lady who had a 
> replacement about a 
> year ago, and it got infected.  They had to go in, remove 
> parts, cure the 
> infection and install a second.  I point this out not to 
> scare, but 
> emphasize that any surgery, etc., does have some level of 
> potential 
> complications.
> 
> Would I do it again?  ABSOLUTELY!!
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Lew Best
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 11:03 PM
> To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
> Subject: Re: [AT] Knees
> 
> I don’t know anything about knees but I had a total hip 
> replacement a little
> over 5 weeks ago.  I'd twisted my leg or something about 6-
> 8 weeks before
> that; hobbled around mostly on a walker but the pain "came & 
> went" so I
> waited for it to heal itself.  I went down near Houston to 
> look at an old
> gooseneck trailer I was interested in buying; fell & something 
> popped & no
> way could I get back up.  I'd broken the big femur bone 
> they said; the doc
> at the VA hospital in Houston said he could try to patch it or 
> do the full
> replacement.  I told him to "do what was best" as I didn't 
> want to go thru
> it again!  As soon as I came out of surgery the pain was 
> far less than I'd
> been tolerating before the fall; only took one pain pill today 
> (can take up
> to one every 4 hours as needed) so if knee surgery anywhere near as
> successful as my hip was I'd say go for it.  I go back 
> Wednesday for the 6
> week checkup; hopefully they'll let me start driving again.
> 
> Lew near Waco, TX
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Larry Goss
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 8:25 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: [AT] Knees
> 
> Herb -- I hear you missed this weekend's show.
> 
> Get yourself to a hospital and get new knees.  NOW!  
> Since I last saw you, I
> have had both knees replaced == November 2008, and February 
> 2010.  I am
> pain-free for the first time in many years.  You know 
> you're in trouble when
> you have to take the maximum number of pain killers every day, 
> and the
> steroid shots give you no relief at all.  I was at that 
> point.  I broke down
> and cried for joy three days after my second replacement when I 
> was able to
> stand on my new knee with no pain at all.  Get it done, and 
> if you have the
> option of taking your initial rehab in a long-term-care rehab 
> center, DO
> IT!  I've been through it both ways  (on my own, and 
> in a residential
> rehab)  The residential rehab is much better.  If you 
> don't do it, you won't
> even be able to climb up on those Allis-G's you have.
> 
> Larry
> 
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