-=> Quoting Sean Rima to Nancy Backus on 08-13-09  21:36 <=-

 > Don't you just love it when doctors blithely expect weight loss to be
 > something one can just do, like turning on or off the light...?
 > Sometimes diet and/or exercise are very helpful, sometimes not all that
 > effective...

 SR> I am trying to watch what I eat, sadly I losing weight at a very slow
 SR> pace. I am seeing the surgeon tomorrow and to be honest, I may ask to
 SR> leave it a year and see how it goes.
 
How did it go?  Good luck on both the weight loss and the knee.  :)

 >  SR> weight. The knee does need replacing but I am too young, which at 46
 >  SR> is good going to be too young :)
 > Yeah, they worry that you'll need another replacement down the road,
 > since you aren't officially a "senior" yet...

 SR> What they said was that if they replaced it now, I would not have
 SR> enough bone in the future. I am thiking of asking what age he would do
 SR> a replacement at as the op he is going to do has a longer off work
 SR> period 

Hmm.  That sounds like your knee is in quite bad shape... :(  At least
technology is proceding apace, so maybe in a decade or so they'll have
new and better techniques.  I know there have already been great strides
in this sort of thing.  :)

ttyl   neb

... "Th-th-that's easy t-t-to f-f-fix."  "That's easy for
you to say."

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