Three good years

 

 

Judy got three good years out of her artificial knee.  She’s had it for four.

 

We hiked and biked and walked.  It was great.  It worked just like it was supposed to.  Then the knee got a little loose and didn’t feel good anymore.  So today we were back up in Corpus and Judy got a knee tune-up.  A one component revision.  Some ligaments had stretched slightly and that’s what was allowing the wobble in her knee.  (This doesn’t always happen with knee replacements, but it’s not unusual for it to happen either.)  While the wobble was going on, some scar tissue, like a callus, formed.  So the challenge for the doctor today was to trim off all the scar tissue, and replace the plastic part in the middle of her knee with a slightly thicker one to stretch out the ligaments so they’ll work more like they’re supposed to again.  He said the surgery went really well.  We expect a lot more good years out of this knee.

 

Judy got released from the hospital early in the afternoon.  I checked us out of the hotel room we had been in for a couple days getting everything together for the surgery.  We drove back to the Valley and were home by dark, both of us a little on the tired side (We were at the hospital at 5:30am.) but as comfortable as we can be.