Years ago I was told by my original orthopedic surgeon that I should call him when my knee hurt. A year later a different surgeon told me that what the other surgeon meant was that I would eventually develop arthritis in my knee and would require a knee replacement. I have no frame of reference to know what arthritis actually feels like, but I don't believe that I have developed it yet. Eleven or twelve years later I really don't think that I have any issues with arthritic pain. Instead, I'm feeling sharp pains and instability. My knee gets around well enough most of the time, but there are moments when it feels as though my knee is being stabbed while at other times it feels as though my leg is going to separate into two pieces at the knee. Also, there are times as though it's too weak to hold me up when I'm standing.and too weak to lift me up when I'm sitting. It's nothing that I can describe as arthritic pain, but rather pain and weakness that feels as though my leg was really broken and beaten at one time. The way that it was...well, years ago in a motorcycle accident.
It all leaves me wondering if my anti-surgery stand is going to last very long. I hate to think that I'll have to compromise myself and go to an orthopedic surgeon, but I sometimes fear that my knee will fail in a big way at some point when I'll be in a postion to get really hurt because of a bum leg. Time and tide lead us to every point in life, but I think that the coming years will demand that I take a more proactive stand in all of this. I guess that I'll eventually see what the next demand that is made by my body leads me to.
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