For nearly a dozen years, I rebuffed knee replacement surgery, but that ended today. (Yes, this post was cached ahead of time) I was dedicated to a regimen of PT – religiously doing the home exercises – taking Tylenol, and applying KT Tape as shown by my PT..

I was also blessed to live in a one-story house with nary a stair in my life. I’d known that my heredity was strong for arthritis because my mother had right knee replacement at about this time in her life – so, when we searched for a new home in 1986, we made a good choice.

Now I have a titanium replacement for a formerly bone-on-bone, fully engulfed in the arthritis of old age, right knee joint.

As stated earlier, I’ve assiduously delayed the surgery, in part because of the advice of a long ago orthopedic surgeon. I’ve written on the topic before, too, most recently while we watched the Summer Olympics: https://www.pjcolando.com/i-am-a-kt-tape-addict/

While intellectually I understand that it’s not possible, I’m wishing, hoping, and dreaming of e pain-free experience.

I don’t subscribe to the aphorism, “no pain, no gain.”

I’m not now, nor have I ever been a jock. I was the lass who could run fast, but couldn’t field or toss a ball, so I was parked in the outfield, if I was picked for a team at all. I could run the bases faster than anyone… if I’d ever hit the ball. I was a better cheerleader than a player, so that I became.

My husband is the jock.

I’m counting on his patient and perfect care because he expects to be next for knee replacement. I’m the nurturing type, so my attentive care can be counted on. While he used to be the “no tears; suck it up” type, he’s changed, lo these many months I’ve struggled through an unfortunate diagnosis of Stiff Person Syndrome. Remember this tortured blog post? https://www.pjcolando.com/wayback-machine/

Thanks for encouragement, peeps who read my blog now and then. Please encourage me again.