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Joint Replacement for Firefighters
Well it is T- 6 days until I get my knee replaced with the latest and greatest. I am nervous about it for sure. Yesterday was the pits, my head was for the first time in 27 yrs not in the game at all. Glad it was a quiet shift. The game was at the knee and thinking about how things were going to turn out in the next 6 months.
How many of you FFs out there have had this or other joints replaced and are still on the job. How are you doing, how did it turn out?
How many of you FFs out there have had this or other joints replaced and are still on the job. How are you doing, how did it turn out?
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Permalink Reply by Floyd Aldridge Jr on
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Don,
That is great news!! Keep Up the good work. Swimming is a good way to excerise also.
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Permalink Reply by duane on
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Hello my name is duane and i have a right knee that has been hurting me. it pops a lot and when i beened it is geting hard for me to get bavk up.lol could any one please tell me what might be wrong. thanks.
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Permalink Reply by Tyler Stanford on
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I just found your post, so I know your surgery was a couple of years ago. I am a 34 year old firefighter in California and I need a total knee replacement due to a MRSA infection. Are you back to work on the floor? Do you have an restrictions? How long did it take you to get back to work?
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Permalink Reply by Robert on
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I am in line to get my knee's. Yes both knee's replaced. I won't go into details but I am hoping that all goes well with mine in the next couple years.
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Permalink Reply by Art "ChiefReason" Goodrich on
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Robert:
I had the right one done 4-1/2 years ago and the left one done 3-1/2 years ago.
I have been pain free ever since. I ride a bicycle and play lots of golf.
My job has me walking a lot on concrete floors; all activities that use to kill my knees.
Not anymore.
Because I was able to get active again, I lost 90 pounds.
I'm 56 and I feel like I'm 26.
Stay true to your therapy.
Good luck.
Art
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I hope all goes well with mine. Unfortunately I have to wait another 2 years til they will touch mine. Because of my age. Also unfortunate that my replacement has to do with Iraq but that is another whole story.
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Permalink Reply by Don Zimmerman on
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My knee is great, 18 months since surgery and I HAVE MY LIFE BACK BIG TIME, at one point before surgery I felt like my life was circling the drain and about to go down the xxxxxxx. Thank you doctor for the wonderful job you did and thank you BioMet for the great research and design into knee parts. Thanks to the therapy people who tortured me 3 times a week and then then demanded I work out of the days off. Thanks to my family, without then I would have had zero support and no one ther to drive me forward. Robert, tget a new doctor, if you need them age be damned. I am up to waliing 5 miles plus takes about 70 minutes, I run out of some gas about the 4 mile mark but I am doing that in an hour as is. I can not stress a having a great doctor, a therapist that has a plan for you to follow, and family to push you xxx forward. If you want more info go to knee1.com and learn alot about knee replacement. I had blog started when I did all this and I have not been back of late, about time to up date that blog and this one as well. You can email at dczimmerman6@yahoo.com of donald_c_zimmerman@rl.gov any time to learn more. Fireboss
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Permalink Reply by Nancy Lankford McCain on
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Hey Tyler, Welcome to the world of titaniume and teflon! I left EMS while I could still walk, in an effort to keep mine. That was still the days of stainless cable to replace tendon and ligament. About ?LU{)(U years after, I lost the use of both in a two month period, and got a scooter. OK, that was fun for a while, but wasn't a solution.
The injections didn't work either. So on Nov 2 of 2001 I asked my Doc for 2 new knees for my birthday 7 days later. I got my wish, but a little later on (as he said) another day of infamy Dec 7.
When I woke up in recovery I did not hurst as bad as when I creeped in to the hospital that morning. When I went back to work 4 months later, there were people who told me that all they had ever seen was me shuffling thru DFW airport, They had never seen me WALK. Life started over again and I began to have fun.
Don't be afraid, the technologhy has improved SOOOOOO much since I got mine! They twist now!
Keep me informed
Stay Safe
Nancy
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The only problem is that I do not have a choice of doctors for this. I am getting it done free by the VA. But they won't work on or give me medical for work done by out of network doctor's.
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Hey, Don:
You aren't going to believe this but my artificial knee joint are Zimmer.
Is that funny or what?
You got BioMet and I have Zimmer.
That seems bass akwards to me.
Did they put you on a knee machine?
Glad to hear you're doing great.
Art
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Robert:
You must be entitled to a second opinion.
If the knee joint is that bad, they should do the surgery.
The new proesthetic joints are lasting a lot longer.
I was a real sumbitch until I had them done. They hurt all the time; I was cranky all the time.
Very limited in what I could do. Couldn't take any more medication because it was affecting liver and kidney function.
You get to a point where you tell them to do it or you'll find someone who will.
I did.
Good luck to you.
Art
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Permalink Reply by Deanna on
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I'm going to have a partial replacement in 3-5 years. I had a scope done a year ago to fix a torn meniscus. I still have my fair share of problems with that. I chose to never be interior as to not jeapordize my fellow firefighters in case I were to go down. I hope you have good luck with yours. Be prepared to cuss alot if you monitor what's going on and cannot go, It stinks. Please let me know how progress is. TCSS.
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