Guest guest Posted October 22, 2002 Report Share Posted October 22, 2002 Thank you all for your support and good wishes. This has been a very painful procedure and am not doing too well. They still consider the surgery a success and according to the ortho would like to do the second operation on Thursday or Friday. The second part would just consist of a skin transplant from my left upper thigh to cover the area that they could not close the other day. Apparently, right now I have some pretty big areas that have no skin on them and that is why they don't want to wait too long to do the skin graft (infection, etc). I am very sorry if my posts and updates on the condition of my post total knee replacement are taking a negative view. I will be keeping these to a minimum and just give general updates. I still and always will feel that this is a very successful and worthwhile surgery for those of us who suffer from the joint destruction that this disease causes. However, complications can occur in ANY and ALL surgical procedures even under the best of circumstances. Yes, my situation can be considered " abnormal and rare " but I am the unfortunate 1 out of 10 people that this might happen to. So to any of you who feel that I am giving this surgery a bad reputation or am trying to discourage, my heartfelt apologies. I am still hopeful and pray for a successful outcome to this condition. Debs in FL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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