In other news...
Oct. 5th, 2005 03:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dennyGot a further medical report yesterday. It wasn't very cheerful reading. Actually it was a long way from being cheerful reading. It was a little vague in places, and my solicitor is chasing up the exact details, but it seemed to be saying that I can expect to need knee replacement surgery considerably sooner in my life than one would usually expect. Like, between the age of 40 and 45. So ten years, ish.
This does not fill me with the happy.
Amongst other things, knee replacements are only good for 10-15 years, so if I have one when I'm 40, I'm probably going to be looking at another two at least, presuming I don't die of anything interesting in the meantime. The potential for either partial or total failure of the procedure is considerably higher with each subsequent operation, unsurprisingly. It's also quite a major procedure, as surgery goes. I was hoping I was done with major surgery, and its aftermath :-\
Plus of course, there's the pain of the knee degrading before each operation - it sounds like they let it go a way before they actually stick a new one in there. So even if I do manage to start dancing again over the next few years, it sounds like I might be stopping again not so long after that :(
There's a nice easy-read introduction to knee replacements here, if you're interested:
http://www.healthpages.org/AHP/LIBRARY/HLTHTOP/TKR/
Personally I think I might have to file this one under "don't think about it" - it's just that bit too much.
This does not fill me with the happy.
Amongst other things, knee replacements are only good for 10-15 years, so if I have one when I'm 40, I'm probably going to be looking at another two at least, presuming I don't die of anything interesting in the meantime. The potential for either partial or total failure of the procedure is considerably higher with each subsequent operation, unsurprisingly. It's also quite a major procedure, as surgery goes. I was hoping I was done with major surgery, and its aftermath :-\
Plus of course, there's the pain of the knee degrading before each operation - it sounds like they let it go a way before they actually stick a new one in there. So even if I do manage to start dancing again over the next few years, it sounds like I might be stopping again not so long after that :(
There's a nice easy-read introduction to knee replacements here, if you're interested:
http://www.healthpages.org/AHP/LIBRARY/HLTHTOP/TKR/
Personally I think I might have to file this one under "don't think about it" - it's just that bit too much.
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Date: 2005-10-05 03:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-05 03:23 pm (UTC)Fast learners please me.
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Date: 2005-10-05 05:59 pm (UTC)Mmmm, focus.