Surgery... etc

January 4, 2001

Hi, all. It's not Sunday, but to those of you who pray, please pray

for me as I go in to have my knee replacement surgery tomorrow

morning. I'll be off the forum from tomorrow for about 10 days, but

I'll be thinking about you. These are days of high anxiety, as you

might imagine.

Interestingly, they have taken me off all anti-inflammatory meds pre-

surgery, and the " electrical shocks " are much worse than usual, and

overall pain is worse, but I know that there's a lot of

osteoarthritis all over also. I wonder how many CMTers also have

advanced osteoarth. It would seem to be a rather logical result of

the CMT, all things considered.

I've been doing some pre-surg physical therapy. The original idea was

for gait training because of recent AFO. Actually it has turned into

some strength building in order to help with the after-surgery pain,

mobility, etc. especially since my gait seems to be okay with the

AFO. The PT is helping a good deal and the therapist is knowledgeable

enough about the CMT so that she is not trying to build muscle where

it's atrophied. Thank goodness! She's concentrating on hips and

thighs and I do think it is helping my walking in general. A couple

of times I have objected to certain exercises because of causing too

much strain on my already strained knees, and she has dropped those.

It's good to have courage to let my voice be heard. At least in this

instance it has helped me not to injure myself by not speaking up!

I may check the posts once more this evening, but I have a mountain

of things yet to do today! It may be good to be under anesthesia, in

order to get some rest!

Regards to all. I will look forward to seeing the posts when I return.

Carolyn

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