Sad to say, of all my life's accomplishments, real or imagined, it seems likely the closest I'm ever to come to Andy Warhol's iconic 15 minutes has been realized. The hospital staff was awestricken, the home health care workers were amazed: my TKR has left me mostly pain-free, and with a remarkable range of motion, almost ideal fresh out of surgery. I see no possible way I can take credit, at this point anyway. Precocious results do not necessarily translate into perfect results, so there is a lot of work ahead, so they lead me to believe. It would be nice to have been acknowledged for some active pursuit on my part, rather than being a passive entity to a medical process, but it's not the worst possible scenario, I guess.
It's far too early for me to take a solid position, but many people say they wish they'd had such surgery years earlier. Not me; though I wish it were in the past, I'm glad I waited. Yes, I would have avoided 6 years of decline, but I think the advances in surgery for knee replacement are well worth the wait. Why have a surgeon whittle away at your opened knee bones while he figures out how to insert the replacement part when it's possible to pre-determine just how and where the tailoring will be done. No longer a need to have a metal spike inserted into the shinbone, or to cut all those tendons that can get in the way. At least that's my take on it, for now......
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