Hey Sandara- I am so sorry honey. I have bad knees too and know how
you feel. The last bout was when I got a cortisone shot which ended up
giving me MRSA. That was it. I'm waiting for my knee replacement too.
Can do it whenever I'm ready, just not ready. YOU, (LOL) let me know
how yours does then I might go ahead with mine. I hope you had an
awesome 2009. I haven't been on here much and offered the support I
had hoped to but that will change as I will be into my online classes
and living at the computer. You take care of yourself. And for all who
read this topic discussion, HAVE A WONDERFUL AND GLORIOUS HAPPY NEW
YEAR!! I HOPE WE ALL ARE BLESSED AND CAN SHARE OUR BLESSINGS
THROUGHOUT 2009.






--- In stomacentralint@yahoogroups.com, "sandara4_sci"
<wildpurpleflowers@...> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
> is it worth me apologising again? :-D I dont seem to be able to get
> myself together as yet. Although this has not that much to do with
> my divorce this time. More to do with my knees. I had a recent
> athroscopy on my left knee due to my not being able to walk very
> well at all and falling over a lot. I found out after, that I need a
> total knee replacement, which I am now waiting for. Meanwhile, my
> arthroscopy and wash out has left my knee in a worse condition than
> prior to the op. As now it keeps coming out...locking my knee in
> such agony, I scream in pain struggling to get it back into place
> again. Walking is becoming a dangerous nightmare and falling is
> becoming very common. Ive got so many bruises now, I look as if Ive
> been beaten up lol. I have to put my hands out to protect myself and
> have cut both my hands and bruised them, making it hard for me to
> use my crutches. I have felt sorry for myelf over this and have been
> confined to the house. I dont have much family around me. My sister
> lives 2 and half hours away by car, she doesnt drive and has young
> children at school. And although I have brothers, one is sick with
> Leukeamia, I want to be mobile for his sake as he will need me later
> on. The other lives too far and works, as does my younger brother.
> Basically, Im on my own a lot. And obviously I HAVE to walk as best
> as I can, and (a lot of you will understand this) when you just
> cant! its not a nice feeling. It makes you feel helpless and my
> frustration levels rise that I have to calm myself down to get
> through this period of time. I am going to ring my surgeon again
> tomorrow to ask them to please bring my surgery forward as quickly
> as possible, get my bionic knee and start to get a bit more mobile
> again. I was born with birth defect on both my knees. So Ive never
> had fantastic mobility at the best of times. But God! this year has
> been the most....urgh...I have no words to describe this year. At
> least none that I would write on the www :-)
>
> On the plus side, Ive lost a lot weight. And there is just a week
> left of this HIDEOUS year! I never say *it cant get worse* because
> things can always get worse, there is always worse out there. So I
> will just say this. That I hope that 2009 will be the start of a
> wonderful year, that as each day passes it will get better and
> better and that I will be able to smile again....and that one day
> soon I will find my happiness again.
>
> Enough of me and my whinging and whining. And I am hoping that you
> are all well. As this year draws to a close. I want to wish you all,
> the very very best. And hope and pray that 2009 brings you all
> HEALTH, WEALTH, PEACE AND HAPPINESS.
>
> all my very best to you
>
> Sandara
>
> P.S. I am sorry that the chats have been off the menu for so long. I
> do promise that from 2009 I will start it up again religiously every
> fortnightly. Stay with us in our little group please and bare with
> me, and I will be back in the loop very soon. Take care.
>