I’m facing another knee replacement surgery. I’ve experienced two so far, a partial on my left knee in late 2012, and a full on my right knee in early 2016.

I’ve been dealing with issues on my left knee since before I retired, but I kept putting it off hoping that when I retired and stopped the long daily commutes that the stress would lesson, and thus the problems with my left knee would somehow dissipate. It actually did at first, but then they slowly crept back. Unfortunately the bad symptoms started to reappear during the height of the pandemic; I wasn’t about to go get surgery during all of that. Now the pandemic, and specifically the pandemic lockdowns, have long since come to an end. The pain in the left knee has now increased to the point where no amount of wishful thinking combined with physical therapy will allow me to ignore it.

The practice that will be doing the work will be the same practice that performed the 2016 surgery. I much prefer that group because they perform the replacement as an out-patient procedure. That meant in 2016 I was back home the same day and recovered at my home. I much prefer home recovery if possible.

I’ll get a call this afternoon telling me when the procedure will be performed and who’ll do it. I asked for the original 2016 surgeon, but he’s booked out to November of this year, so I’ll use one of the other two orthopedic surgeons in the practice. Hopefully that means my procedure will be scheduled sooner than November.