If you are considering having a Total Knee Replacement then this video may help put your mind at ease. Your own experience and body may certainly be different to mine and you may have quite different issues and or results, so talk to your medical professionals before you undertake something like this.
In part 3 of this series on my Total Knee Replacement journey, I show you how far I have progressed with the help of some great physiotherapy and a lot of hard work. In this episode I am at the 10 week Post Op mark and am working to get back out doing what we love to do. I might add that I had private health insurance and that has really helped as it can be quite an extensive and expensive ordeal if you had to pay for it without the insurance and the public system may not cover the costs of the follow up physio that I was fortunate to be able to have. .
A total knee replacement is serious surgery and is done when you are no longer able to do what you want to do because you are limited by damaged or arthritic joints. Although my right knee is not perfect it doesn't stop me, but my left knee was down to bone on bone and I struggled to walk even a few hundred metres and would find steps a challenge. I struggled to sleep at night after any extended walking distances.
Okay, I may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but I can now tackle stairs without wondering if I need to stop half way for a rest, and I can nearly keep up with Rose as she loves to take long walks in the forest trails to see the amazing scenery that Australia has to offer. We love to put together our travel vlogs that are hopefully entertaining and informative and I needed to do the knee replacement so we could continue our travels and bring you new content.
So join us in this episode as we complete this 3 part series on my Total Knee
Replacement journey and we hope it gives you at least a little bit of an idea of what I went through as a reasonably fit and healthy seventy year old male.
17 мар 2024
