This is what my knees look like now. You can see how they drilled into the knees to anchor the metal pieces. Lovely isn’t it. Well, at least the major portion is over. Here I had the right knee done in March and the left in May. Now in September I am riding my bicycle regularly again. So far I do the almost 6 miles from work to home without any real trouble. I will be extending that slowly so that I can get back up to the 70 mile rides in the Keys again. Now that the bad part is over I can feel that it was well worth it. I no longer have the pain that was limiting what I could do. The whole process was scary but it was so necessary to get me active again.

I’m going to test my new knees out on the tennis courts soon so I can gauge the progress. I actually spent a good portion of this past Friday night chasing my grandson around and having a blast. I could not have done this without the surgery as the previous pain was just too much to bear for long. I have no difficulty with walking anymore and just need to get my endurance and strength back up. I could even see myself running if I really wanted to but I don’t want to wear them out too soon. Besides, I always hated running anyways.

I really should have done this years ago but was too scared of the impending pain. It was only when the pain of the bone-on-bone scraping became too much to take and it started to interfere with what I could do that I finally took the plunge. I have to admit that there was no way that I could do both knees at once as I have heard of some others doing. I had enough trouble dealing with one at a time.