I had an appointment for a second opinion with another orthopedic surgeon today. And he said yes!
I was completely prepared to fight for these new knees, but I didn’t even need my arguments. He was in complete agreement.
It shouldn’t be long now. I have to be cleared by my rheumatologist, my dentist, and a cardiologist. Everyone thinks it’s odd that a dentist has to ok knee replacement surgery, but he just has to make sure I don’t have any infections, or abscesses. I was able to schedule an appointment for tomorrow. The soonest I can get in for the cardiologist is next Wednesday.
My doctor only does surgeries on Mondays, so there’s a chance that if I can get my paperwork done quickly enough, it may happen the 6th.
I’m very excited. I’ve been in a lot of pain because I’ve been off my meds for a few weeks. But its nice to know that in a few weeks, I’ll finally be getting some relief!
Without my knee pain, I think I’ll find R.A. a much more tolerable disease. No picnic of course, but no longer hell on earth.
ANYways, Ive been doing my research on total knee replacements. Makes me a bit queasy thinking about it actually. I never am very good with the whole blood and gore and bones and needles thing. I’m actually fairly nervous, but I know it will be a good step.
I am going to have my left leg done first. And if there are no complications, then my right knee three weeks later. He said that doing them both at the same time increases the risk of infection by thirty percent. And that with my medications, R.A., etc an infection would be very very bad.
They explained all of the risks involved. It seems a bit daunting, but really, I think I would be willing to do just about anything for these new knees.
I had an appointment for a second opinion with another orthopedic surgeon today. And he said yes!
I was completely prepared to fight for these new knees, but I didn’t even need my arguments. He was in complete agreement.
It shouldn’t be long now. I have to be cleared by my rheumatologist, my dentist, and a cardiologist. Everyone thinks it’s odd that a dentist has to ok knee replacement surgery, but he just has to make sure I don’t have any infections, or abscesses. I was able to schedule an appointment for tomorrow. The soonest I can get in for the cardiologist is next Wednesday.
My doctor only does surgeries on Mondays, so there’s a chance that if I can get my paperwork done quickly enough, it may happen the 6th.
I’m very excited. I’ve been in a lot of pain because I’ve been off my meds for a few weeks. But its nice to know that in a few weeks, I’ll finally be getting some relief!
Without my knee pain, I think I’ll find R.A. a much more tolerable disease. No picnic of course, but no longer hell on earth.
ANYways, Ive been doing my research on total knee replacements. Makes me a bit queasy thinking about it actually. I never am very good with the whole blood and gore and bones and needles thing. I’m actually fairly nervous, but I know it will be a good step.
I am going to have my left leg done first. And if there are no complications, then my right knee three weeks later. He said that doing them both at the same time increases the risk of infection by thirty percent. And that with my medications, R.A., etc an infection would be very very bad.
They explained all of the risks involved. It seems a bit daunting, but really, I think I would be willing to do just about anything for these new knees.