Guest guest Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 Congratulations, Pat...........BARB in Florida I am excited! Hi friends, I wanted to share with you my one last goal before my first anniversary of my knee replacements. I figure you are the people who will understand the most what this means to me. The other day, for the first time, I was able to kneel on one of those kneeling gardening things without using my arms to hold me up. In other words....I put my complete weight on my replacement knees. I know I could not just kneel down on a hard floor right now....but this thing has side arm support for getting up and down and until now, I was first too scared and later when I tried it hurt. But now, I know I can do it! Hope you don't mind me patting myself on the back but this was the one last thing I wanted to succeed in doing before my 1 year anniversary of the surgery. Thanks for letting me share! Pat in Pennsylvania Bilateral TKR August 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 Congratulations, Pat!!! You give those of us with newer knees that there's hope and light at the end of the tunnel!!! Lynn LTHR Oct 09 RTKR Mar 11 Life itself is the proper binge. - Child Visit my art blog: http://adreamseyeview.blogspot.com/ From: Pat Stoeckle <rainbowsendminis@...> Joint Replacement Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 12:43 PM Subject: I am excited! Hi friends, I wanted to share with you my one last goal before my first anniversary of my knee replacements. I figure you are the people who will understand the most what this means to me. The other day, for the first time, I was able to kneel on one of those kneeling gardening things without using my arms to hold me up. In other words....I put my complete weight on my replacement knees. I know I could not just kneel down on a hard floor right now....but this thing has side arm support for getting up and down and until now, I was first too scared and later when I tried it hurt. But now, I know I can do it! Hope you don't mind me patting myself on the back but this was the one last thing I wanted to succeed in doing before my 1 year anniversary of the surgery. Thanks for letting me share! Pat in Pennsylvania Bilateral TKR August 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 well done Pat, I couldn't kneel on my knee replacement for the life of me, not for long any way. -- I am excited! Hi friends, I wanted to share with you my one last goal before my first anniversary of my knee replacements. I figure you are the people who will understand the most what this means to me. The other day, for the first time, I was able to kneel on one of those kneeling gardening things without using my arms to hold me up. In other words....I put my complete weight on my replacement knees. I know I could not just kneel down on a hard floor right now....but this thing has side arm support for getting up and down and until now, I was first too scared and later when I tried it hurt. But now, I know I can do it! Hope you don't mind me patting myself on the back but this was the one last thing I wanted to succeed in doing before my 1 year anniversary of the surgery. Thanks for letting me share! Pat in Pennsylvania Bilateral TKR August 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 Congratulations, Pat! I am two years post-op for bilateral TKR. I had my two year surgeon's appointment yesterday. My surgeon says I am to avoid kneeling if I can at all help it, unless I have really thick, cushy pads to kneel on. The reason being, the kneecap area is the weakest part, and kneeling puts a lot of stress on the joints. I wonder if surgeons have different opinions about kneeling vs. not-kneeling on new knees. I know my surgeon is adamently against the use of CPMs as he'd rather his patients do the work themselves as opposed to a machine doing if for him/her. Left TKR 7/16/09. Right TKR 7/20/09 Teeny, OS, Lakewood, WA > I wanted to share with you my one last goal before my first anniversary of > my knee replacements. I figure you are the people who will understand the > most what this means to me. > The other day, for the first time, I was able to kneel on one of those > kneeling gardening things without using my arms to hold me up. In other > words....I put my complete weight on my replacement knees. I know I could > not just kneel down on a hard floor right now....but this thing has side arm > support for getting up and down and until now, I was first too scared and > later when I tried it hurt. But now, I know I can do it! Hope you don't > mind me patting myself on the back but this was the one last thing I wanted > to succeed in doing before my 1 year anniversary of the surgery. > > Thanks for letting me share! > > Pat in Pennsylvania > Bilateral TKR August 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 Hi Pat, That's just fantastic news. Congrats on that accomplishment. Jeff From: Pat Stoeckle <rainbowsendminis@...> Joint Replacement Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 12:43 PM Subject: I am excited! Hi friends, I wanted to share with you my one last goal before my first anniversary of my knee replacements. I figure you are the people who will understand the most what this means to me. The other day, for the first time, I was able to kneel on one of those kneeling gardening things without using my arms to hold me up. In other words....I put my complete weight on my replacement knees. I know I could not just kneel down on a hard floor right now....but this thing has side arm support for getting up and down and until now, I was first too scared and later when I tried it hurt. But now, I know I can do it! Hope you don't mind me patting myself on the back but this was the one last thing I wanted to succeed in doing before my 1 year anniversary of the surgery. Thanks for letting me share! Pat in Pennsylvania Bilateral TKR August 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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