Total Knee Replacements - A Patient's Perspective

Charmaine Sparrow's bilateral TKR journey

Tuesday, 6 August 2013

Eight month update

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Eight months and two days ago I had a life-changing operation.  I was gifted with two new knees.  I use the word "gifted" because,...
Tuesday, 21 May 2013

5.5 MONTHS UPDATE

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Wow - five and a bit months ago I was probably just being pushed back to the ward!  What a new lease on life!!! Quick update.  Scars - s...
Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Milestones, Lessons and Wows!

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Yesterday I went to work - and left the crutch in the car! Mega milestone! In February I went from two crutches to one crutch with the aim o...
Thursday, 4 April 2013

Four Month Milestone

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Can you believe - today four months ago I had the bilateral total knee replacements! So let's check in: Scars:   The scars look grea...
Tuesday, 26 March 2013

TKR Physio Exercises - beauty or the beast!

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Physio, physio, physio - after your TKR you will seem to spend practically every waking minute (and when you have restless legs, even the sl...
Monday, 25 March 2013

Home Sweet Home

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I could not wait to get home but had some reservations: (a)  the dreaded stairs; (b)  I did not have a snatchy thingy to help me pick thi...
Friday, 22 March 2013

Step-down clinic and stairs at home

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I must admit that my gardening session yesterday only extended to cutting lavendar flowers - which I plan to use to fill up my lavendar wrea...
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Charmaine
Welcome to my world! I'm female, fair (quite grey), in my forties (49 to be precise), fat (I prefer to call it Rubenesque) and feeling quite fabulous! Mainly because of my new knees!
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