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You’re a bad man !! or a gluten for punishment
Not sure how you did both the same time ??
You’re a bad man !! or a gluten for punishment
Not sure how you did both the same time ??
This was the initial rebuild of my left knee tendons in 2016. Used a long portion of my right IT Band and a piece of the right patella tendon. TKR was four years later and far less traumatic, though the night after surgery was very uncomfortable. Would definitely not want to do both at the same time!
TKR was July 2, 2020. I rucked a 50 pound pack about 1.5 miles onto a local sea island and camped to honor the victims of September 11th just 71 days later. You can see there was far less trauma from the TKR. This was taken 11 days out. At exactly 90 days out I was back on the dirt bike for over an hour of mountain trail riding. TKR was a far better result.
Hope you spent extra time working that left leg…. Atrophy from subconsciously putting all your weight on your right leg.
AMHIK.
My left calf is still pretty good, but my left thigh is almost 2” diameter smaller than my right because my left knee’s completely fucked. Every annual med checkup the VA suggests a total knee replacement, and every year I tell ‘em to pound sand, I’ll just keep on with the knee injections every 3-6 months.
May have to get it done soon though; almost to the point where I can’t walk, and I ain’t gettin’ any younger. Takes a lot longer to heal/recuperate these days.
My dad had both knees done. He said the only regret was waiting so long to have them done.
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You’re a bad man !! or a gluten for punishment
Not sure how you did both the same time ??
Do the TKA.
Several of my friends have had them.
Only thing they say after about 3-4 weeks is “why did I wait so long???”
One lady said day 14 she was in less pain on just tylenol than the prior 5 yrs on a lot of stuff.
She is a nurse and would have to work a day, have a day off, work a day, and so on because of it.
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Over all I’m glad I had it done last November. I’m mixing up walking a block , slo-jog 3 blocks….repeat ..to get some lost cardio back. Up to three miles 5 days a week. Still swells some , nothing that ice or ibuprofen won’t take care of. My surgeon said it might take a year for a full recovery.
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For sure. Atrophy is no joke. Pretty sure I posted the first surgery on here in 2016 and got a lot of "Never Skip Leg Day" memes. It's way better now. I essentially limped for four years after the first surgery. After wondering if I would ever walk normally again, I came home from TKR and walked with a normal gate after about 4 days. Literally broke into tears; I was so just so damn happy to be walking normally without pain. I'd also been taking pain pills all those years, way above the daily "limit". Totally off pain meds since about a week after TKR.
It's been five years since surgery and I still notice every day that I will favor my right leg for no good reason. There is no pain in the left leg; it's just a habit left over from pre-surgery days. I work on it consciously every day. My thigh and calf are still about a 1/2" smaller diameter than my "good" leg, but from what I have read this is excellent recovery. Since I ride lots of very whooped out trails on dirt bikes, I am essentially doing abbreviated body weight squats hundreds or thousands of times during a ride. No question, have to keep moving. At 63, this becomes very obvious if I take more than a week off from riding.
INJECTIONS: Do a quick dive into injections. If you are getting frequent Corticosteroids, TERRIBLE long-term solution. If that is what you are doing, please consider TKR. It's a game changer. I was on the fence until I listened to a Joe Rogan podcast where he had Gabrielle Reece on. She was a professional beach volleyball player and is married to Laird Hamilton, legendary big wave surfer and super-athlete, health nut. She was telling Rogan that she replaced her knee at age 54 and was playing volleyball again. I was 58. Life-restored to capabilities of before my knee injury. Except I don't run or do any severe repetitive impact activities. Backpacking, surfing, dirt bikes, mountain biking, all are relatively low impact on the implant. I should get at least 20 years out of this. That's 20 years doing what I love without pain. I never stopped doing any of this when the knee was bad, but it's just more fun without pain.
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Mine was done in Jan 2013 ...seperated at birth?
I love to ride my mountain bike too. That said I also can be wreck prone. Would suck screwing it up riding.
Going from running an average 2K miles a year from 2000 to 2023 , to walking is humbling. That said I’ll be 72 soon , might be time to slow down a tad !!
no pain is awesome regardless. 
I commanded the Honor Guard Flight at Pope in the late 1980s when a C-130 crashed during a CAPEX performing a LAPES of a HUMWV. The aircraft split in half, all hands lost.
One of the crew was a personal friend, and I escorted the Wing Commander to hand the flag to his widow at the funeral.
I was in for almost 42 years end to end. Enlisted, officer, served all over the world, jumped out of planes, did the Arctic survival thing, commanded in Iraq.
Those two minutes of presenting the flag, walking towards her as she kept shaking her head and seeing in her eyes, "please don't come here with that" and hearing the old man bend over and whisper to her "On behalf of the President of the United States, and a grateful nation, I humbly present you with this flag," giving the final salute at his casket and marching away were the hardest thing I've ever done.
One of the crew was a personal friend, and I escorted the Wing Commander to hand the flag to his widow at the funeral.
I was in for almost 42 years end to end. Enlisted, officer, served all over the world, jumped out of planes, did the Arctic survival thing, commanded in Iraq.
Those two minutes of presenting the flag, walking towards her as she kept shaking her head and seeing in her eyes, "please don't come here with that" and hearing the old man bend over and whisper to her "On behalf of the President of the United States, and a grateful nation, I humbly present you with this flag," giving the final salute at his casket and marching away were the hardest thing I've ever done.
Earl Blake has a good point/comment
Actually if one has done any mountaineering or read much about it, thats a goofy statement.
Avalanches and crevasse falls are very real at any altitude in that country.
Thats like me saying “flying a jet is easy, I kick butt on the sim game on my gamer station thing”
Avalanches and crevasse falls are very real at any altitude in that country.
Thats like me saying “flying a jet is easy, I kick butt on the sim game on my gamer station thing”
Sounds like Theranos ,but i guess they will not be doing Theranos jail times as they havent screwed with old money elites like Theranos.
Bankrupt Microsoft-Backed 'AI' Company Was Using Indian Engineers To Fake It:
as Bloomberg reports they had a 'fake it till you make it' strategy while having inflated 2024 revenue projections by 300%. Instead of AI, the company was actually using a fleet of more than 700 Indian engineers from social media startup VerSe Innovation for years to actually write the code.
Some of their best work.............
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You think it was men or women that they paid to test it?
Dont need nor want your answer please and thank you
Akchewally, I gave it zero thought........
Honestly, I would rather they do this than sit on their ass and draw a check
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