Who is awake and what are you drinking?

[Herkmeister]

And @Herkmeister, go into the surgery in as good shape as possible (tough with bad knees, but do what you can). Specifically, look online for knee/leg exercises and do them best you can. It will make things so much easier for you right out of surgery.

Thanks Wendy. How many weeks should I work out before surgery?

 

[The_Joker13]

And @Herkmeister, go into the surgery in as good shape as possible (tough with bad knees, but do what you can). Specifically, look online for knee/leg exercises and do them best you can. It will make things so much easier for you right out of surgery.

This is huge imo. My old man had his knee done last year, he didn't do the exercises and basically sat on the couch for 6 months. His knee did not get better. We had to have a family intervention and basically forced him to get his ass in gear. A year later and he's back to his old self and doing very well.

 

[Wendy79]

Thanks Wendy. How many weeks should I work out before surgery?

Start today.

You will naturally shift your weight to the non-surgical leg (you don't need to, but you will...that knee is glued in and not going anywhere...the doc will have tested out your leg in ways you didn't even know were possible before he stitches you up), so having stronger legs and core will be beneficial.

 

[Wendy79]

This is huge imo. My old man had his knee done last year, he didn't do the exercises and basically sat on the couch for 6 months. His knee did not get better. We had to have a family intervention and basically forced him to get his ass in gear. A year later and he's back to his old self and doing very well.

That's good, because patients like that often don't have good outcomes (as in, limited range of motion for the rest of their lives, or they have to go back in so the doc can open up the knee and manually break the scar tissue).

 

[Gimmered]

This is huge imo. My old man had his knee done last year, he didn't do the exercises and basically sat on the couch for 6 months. His knee did not get better. We had to have a family intervention and basically forced him to get his ass in gear. A year later and he's back to his old self and doing very well.

It can actually take up to a year before the knee recovers. People actually tend to over do it and prolong their own recovery.
I had my first one done mid September and my second one 12 weeks later. I have a 6 month window to get back to work or lose my job after 38 years.
I actually did quite a bit of damage to my second knee while rehabbing the first. My OS was surprised by some broken bone in there that didn't show up in the original x-ray.

 

[ThorneStockton]

Was she a biter?

Not a biter, just a clinger

 

[turtley78]

You poor bastard. I know people who have done that job. Are you fresh out of pharmacy school? They got a decent pay differential. One gal I know got some extra pay for working in Chicago. Not the burbs. Chicago. She had big loans.
Nothing but weirdos. The few times I've been in a pharmacy really late at night it's been a rich cross section of humanity waiting in line.

Don't feel too bad. It is at a smaller hospital, so I'm not dealing with weirdos in the middle of the night. I actually have the whole pharmacy to myself so I can crank up the tunes/netflix/whatever I want. I work Sat/Sun overnights and get a differential that turns my 24 hrs/wk into 40. This allowed me to pick up a couple days during the week. Paid off my student loans 2 weeks ago, three years early.

 

[JRHawk2003]